Download or read book Perspectives on User Innovation written by Stephen Flowers and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This developing phenomenon has large implications for our understanding of the management of innovation. Drawing on practice-based insights, together with theoretical approaches developed in Innovation Studies and Science and Technology Studies, this book brings together a collection of recent work that examines key aspects of this emerging new model of innovation, while highlighting exciting new ideas in this area. With content contributed by academics, practitioners and researchers, this book is a good reference source for academics and general public interested in the management and policy implications of user innovation. Contents:Introduction: Perspectives on User Innovation (S Flowers & F Henwood)Exploring the Role(s) of Users in Innovation:The Historical Construction of User Innovation (G Voss)The Dynamics of User Innovation: Drivers and Impediments of Innovation Activities (C Raasch et al.)Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation (J Stewart & S Hyysalo)Drawing Users into the Innovation Process:User-Centric Innovations in New Product Development — Systematic Identification of Lead Users Harnessing Interactive and Collaborative On-Line Tools (V Bilgram et al.)Proactive Involvement of Consumers in Innovation: Selecting Appropriate Techniques (K L Janssen & B Dankbaar)User-Producer Interactions in Emerging Pharmaceutical and Food Innovations (E H M Moors et al.)New Directions in User Innovation Research and Policy:Outlaw Community Innovations (C Schulz & S Wagner)User Innovation: The Developing Policy Research Agenda (S Flowers)The Freedom-Fighters: How Incumbent Corporations are Attempting to Control User-Innovation (V Braun & C Herstatt) Readership: Students, academics and researchers studying and teaching innovation management, managers dealing with innovation processes and new product development in companies. Keywords:User-Driven;Innovation;New Product Development;STS;Social Learning;Collaborative Online ToolsKey Features:Presents the latest research findings into the ways in which users participate in innovationOffers new insights concerning the practice, management and policy implications of user innovationCombines practice-based insights and theoretical approaches

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Download or read book Democratizing Innovation written by Eric Von Hippel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy. Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users find it profitable to develop new products and services for themselves, and why it often pays users to reveal their innovations freely for the use of all.The trend toward democratized innovation can be seen in software and information products—most notably in the free and open-source software movement—but also in physical products. Von Hippel's many examples of user innovation in action range from surgical equipment to surfboards to software security features. He shows that product and service development is concentrated among "lead users," who are ahead on marketplace trends and whose innovations are often commercially attractive. Von Hippel argues that manufacturers should redesign their innovation processes and that they should systematically seek out innovations developed by users. He points to businesses—the custom semiconductor industry is one example—that have learned to assist user-innovators by providing them with toolkits for developing new products. User innovation has a positive impact on social welfare, and von Hippel proposes that government policies, including R&D subsidies and tax credits, should be realigned to eliminate biases against it. The goal of a democratized user-centered innovation system, says von Hippel, is well worth striving for. An electronic version of this book is available under a Creative Commons license.

Download or read book User Innovation in Healthcare written by Francesco Schiavone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the phenomenon of user innovation in healthcare. In particular, the book sheds light on patient innovation, whereby patients and/or caregivers proactively develop and diffuse new products and services that provide health and quality of life benefits by addressing gaps in existing market offerings. The aim is to clarify the key characteristics of these innovative processes and to offer practitioners and policymakers tangible bottom-up evidence, solutions, and ideas that will assist in improving health systems, organizations, and practices. A number of important and interesting research questions are addressed, casting light on the types of products and services that tend to be developed by patient innovators, the typical profile of these innovators, the role played by firms, institutions, and health professionals, and the ways in which digital technologies support the dissemination of innovations among patient communities and within the industry. Beyond academic scholars and policymakers, the book will be of high value for students on master’s programs in both medical sciences and business and economics.

Download or read book Perspectives on Innovation written by Franco Malerba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies, empirical models, appreciative analyses and formal theories abound.

Download or read book Free Innovation written by Eric Von Hippel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading innovation scholar explains the growing phenomenon and impact of free innovation, in which innovations developed by consumers and given away “for free.” In this book, Eric von Hippel, author of the influential Democratizing Innovation, integrates new theory and research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free innovation, as he defines it, involves innovations developed by consumers who are self-rewarded for their efforts, and who give their designs away “for free.” It is an inherently simple grassroots innovation process, unencumbered by compensated transactions and intellectual property rights. Free innovation is already widespread in national economies and is steadily increasing in both scale and scope. Today, tens of millions of consumers are collectively spending tens of billions of dollars annually on innovation development. However, because free innovations are developed during consumers' unpaid, discretionary time and are given away rather than sold, their collective impact and value have until very recently been hidden from view. This has caused researchers, governments, and firms to focus too much on the Schumpeterian idea of innovation as a producer-dominated activity. Free innovation has both advantages and drawbacks. Because free innovators are self-rewarded by such factors as personal utility, learning, and fun, they often pioneer new areas before producers see commercial potential. At the same time, because they give away their innovations, free innovators generally have very little incentive to invest in diffusing what they create, which reduces the social value of their efforts. The best solution, von Hippel and his colleagues argue, is a division of labor between free innovators and producers, enabling each to do what they do best. The result will be both increased producer profits and increased social welfare—a gain for all.

Download or read book User Experience Innovation written by Christian Kraft and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: User Experience Innovation is a book about creating novel and engaging user experiences for new products and systems. User experience is what makes devices such as Apple's iPhone and systems such as Amazon.com so successful. iPhone customers don't buy just a phone; they buy into an experience enabled by the device. Similarly, Amazon.com customers enter a world of book reviews, interesting recommendations, instant downloads to their Kindle, and one-click purchasing. Products today are focal points, and it is the experience surrounding the product that matters the most. User Experience Innovation helps you create the right sort of experience around your products in order to be successful in the marketplace. The approach in User Experience Innovation is backed by 18 years of experience from an author holding more than 100 patents relating to user experience. This is a book written by a practitioner for other practitioners. You'll learn 17 specific methods for creating innovation; these methods run the gamut from targeting user needs to relieving pain points, to providing positive surprises, to innovating around paradoxes. Each method is one that the author has used successfully. Taken together, they can help you create truly successful user experience innovations to benefit your company or organization, and to help you grow as an experienced expert and innovator in your own right. Provides 17 proven methods for innovating around user experience Helps you think beyond the product to the sum total of a customer's experience Written by an experienced practitioner holding more than 100 user-experience patents

Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management written by and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management has been written by an international team of leading academics, practitioners and rising stars and contains almost 550 individually commissioned entries. It is the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field and covers both the theoretical and more empirically/practitioner oriented side of the discipline.

Download or read book Innovation written by and published by T.F. Editores, S.L.C.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation: Perspectives for the 21st Century, has been published by the BBVA Group. The motivation behind this publication is to disseminate expert knowledge on the key issues shaping the future course of the 21st century and relay this knowledge to soc

Download or read book Service Innovation written by Anders Gustafsson and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the world's most advanced economies are dominated by service. The service sector also employs the largest number of people and it is the fastest growing sector, both in number of companies and employees. The questions posed in the book are: (1) How is it growing; (2) what are these new service innovations; (3) what are the drivers; and (4) how can organizations work with service innovations in a structured way? The book views service as the value-creating activity that customers perform in their own context. The role of a company is to provide the resources and knowledge to enable value creation. Based on this view, we develop a model of service innovation and develop guidelines for what is required from the organizational perspective; how should an organization view its customers in order to be successful, what does a service development process look like, and how to transform an organization that has a product focus to a service or solution provider.

Download or read book Perspectives on Supplier Innovation written by Alexander Brem and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of the progressing reduction in the depth of value creation of manufacturers and the increasing transfer of know-how towards suppliers. In multilevel business-to-business relationships, suppliers often have the best or the only access and comprehensive knowledge about the end users. Therefore, suppliers determine the scope of possible innovations, which most companies do not actively use. This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of theories, concepts and especially empirical results on open innovation and the integration of suppliers. For this, authors from all over the world present their latest research results offering fascinating insights into collaborative approaches with suppliers.

Download or read book Understanding User Driven Innovation written by Nordic Council of Ministers and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Business Model Innovation written by S.M. Riad Shams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been growing interest on business models among academics and practitioners in recent years, as business model describes how an organization creates, distributes and captures value and, therefore, can be considered the DNA of the organization. Recently, factors related to digital transformation, the vital role of sustainability and social aspects, along with an increasing globalization, have pushed towards radical transformations in business models. This book aims to further our knowledge on business model innovation in new contexts of analysis and with new perspectives of investigation. Insights from business model innovation are presented from studies focusing on start-ups, small businesses and large businesses to provide a bigger picture on new dynamics connected to digital transformation, sustainability, new global relationships. As such, the scope is on new ways to create value, new components and dynamics (such as digitalization and sustainability) concerning the key elements of the business model (value creation, value configuration and value capture), and new relationships between actors that may foster business model innovation. It represents a valuable resource for practitioners willing to innovate business models, academics aiming at finding new research lines, and students keen to learn more about business models.

Download or read book New Frontiers in Open Innovation written by Henry Chesbrough and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies have to innovate to stay competitive, and they have to collaborate with other organizations to innovate effectively. Although the benefits of "open innovation" have been described in detail before, underlying mechanisms how companies can be successful open innovators have not be understood well. A growing community of innovation management researchers started to develop different frameworks to understand open innovation in a more systematic way. This book provides a thorough examination of research conducted to date on open innovation, as well as a comprehensive overview of what will be the most important, most promising and most relevant research topics in this area during the next decade. "Open Innovation: Researching a new paradigm" (OUP 2006) was the first initiative to bring open innovation closer to the academic community. Open innovation research has since then been growing in an exponential way and research has evolved in different and unexpected directions. As the research field is growing, it becomes increasingly difficult for young (and even experienced scholars) to keep an overview of the most important trends in open innovation research, of the research topics that are most promising for the coming years, and of the most interesting management challenges that are emerging in organizations practicing open innovation. In the spirit of an open approach to innovation, the editors have engaged other scholars and practitioners to contribute some of their interesting insights in this book.Companies have to innovate to stay competitive, and they have to collaborate with other organizations to innovate effectively. Although the benefits of "open innovation" have been described in detail before, mechanisms underlying how companies can be successful "open innovators" have not be understood well. A growing community of innovation management researchers started to develop different frameworks to understand open innovation in a more systematic way.

Download or read book Open Innovation written by Anne-Laure Mention and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' Open Innovation: A Multifaceted Perspective unveils research on open innovation from multidisciplinary perspectives and with practical insights from leaders and policy-makers. The first section addresses the links between open innovation and various disciplines, methods, concepts and policy instruments. The second section reviews selectively the literature, focusing essentially on open service innovation and innovation in financial services industries. It also explores different forms and types of practices reflecting the adoption and implementation of open innovation. The third section focuses on the management of open innovation, paying specific attention to the individual, intra- and inter-organizational levels. Contents:Part I:Unfolding Fifty Shades of Open Innovation: Stimulating Insights & Foresights (Anne-Laure Mention and Marko Torkkeli)Open Questions about Open Innovations (Leonid Chechurin)Open Data For Open Science: Aspirations, Realities, Challenges and Opportunities (Vera Lipton)Open Innovation or Innovation in the Open? An Exploration of the Strategy–Innovation Link in Five Scale-Intensive Services (Karl Joachim Breunig, Tor Helge Aas and Katja Maria Hydle)Sustainable Innovation: Solving Wicked Problems Through Innovation (Antti Hautamäki and Kaisa Oksanen)Futures of Innovation Systems and Innovation Management: Open Innovation Paradigm Analysed from Futures Perspectives (Jari Kaivo-oja and Teemu Santonen)Leveraging Design Thinking to Innovate (Denis Dennehy, Frederic Adam and Fergal Carton)Open Innovation Adoption Practices and Evaluation Methods in the Global Process Industry (Jarkko Pellikka, Miika Kajanus and Marko Seppänen)Open Innovation Networks: Exploring Actor Roles and Network Orchestration in Living Lab (Dimitri Schuurman, Bram Lievens, Carina Veeckman, Lieven De Marez and Pieter Ballon)Open Innovation and Territory (Marcin Baron)Living Labs and Open Innovation in European Context (Bror Salmelin)Part II:The Feasibility of Open Service Innovation (Tor Helge Aas and Per Egil Pedersen)Financial Services and Open Innovation (Patrick Schueffel and Iustin Vadana)How to Motivate and Reward Customers in an Online Co-Creation Process? (Maria Antikainen and Marketta Niemelä)Customer Involvement in Innovation in Service Sector (Jaakko Paasi)Can Crowdsourcing Platforms Be Used in B2B Innovation? (Hannu Kärkkäinen, Jari Jussila, Jani Multasuo and Nina Helander)Crowdsourcing for Value Creation in Lean Start-Ups (Pia Erkinheimo, Hannu Kärkkäinen and Jari Jussila)Open Innovation in University–Industry Collaboration: Communities of Practice (Päivi Iskanius)Characteristics of Open Innovation Cultures in Different Regional Contexts (Peter Prud''homme van Reine)Ambidextrous Organisational and Individual Competencies in OI: The Dawn of a New Research Agenda (Joachim Hafkesbrink and Markus Schroll)Understanding Open Service Innovation and the Role of Intermediaries (Wil Janssen, Timber Haaker and Harry Bouwman)Intra-Organisational Knowledge Flows: A Coopetition Perspective on Post-Acquisition and -Merger Activities (Audrey Depeige and Stavros Sindakis)Management of Diversity in Open Innovation Processes (Teemu Santonen) Readership: Graduate students, researchers, innovation managers, executives, policy makers in the field of innovation. Key Features:Multidisciplinary and inter disciplinarityTheory, Practice and Policy perspectives with contributors from all these economic segmentsDiversity of themes coveredKeywords:Open Innovation;Innovation Management;Innovation Economics;Crowdsourcing;Living Labs;Ecosystems;Skills and Competencies;Quadruple Helex Model;Communities of Practice;Strategy;Open Data;Multidisciplinary "In a world of accelerating change, open innovation is of growing interest to both researchers and practitioners as a powerful mechanism for understanding and driving renewal of smart service systems and networks. This book provides multiple perspectives on open innovation theory and practice for academic, industry, and government leaders including public policy makers seeking sustainable economic growth. The breadth and depth of the chapters is wonderful stimulation for inspiring needed ''adaptive T-shaped makers'' of tomorrow''s innovation ecosystems." Dr James C Spohrer Director, IBM University Programs (IBM UP) and Cognitive Systems Institute "How best to innovate and grow in an open internet world economy? This book takes Open Innovation into the real world. Required reading for all who want faster innovation now." Robert Madelin Director-General for DG CONNECT: Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission '

Download or read book Innovation Intermediaries for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Case Studies and Perspectives written by Brendan Galbraith, Stephen Cross and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation intermediaries have been a central part of regional economic and innovation policies for several decades. During this time a plethora of different models have emerged shaped by cultural, contextual, policy and ecosystem variances. The key objective for policy-makers has been to create an ecosystem and culture within a region that harnesses and develops the next generation of high-tech firms and scales existing SMEs, with the hope rebalancing a modern economy. The science park and university incubator intermediary has grown into one of the most widespread intermediary models and both developed and developing nations have invested substantial resources into this model. This book comprises insightful case studies into innovation intermediaries in the USA - such as Georgia Institute of Technology, Europe and China. Differences in the ecosystem development, lessons learned - both exemplars and impediments to innovation are illustrated in this book. Several spin-off models, practices, mechanisms and entrepreneurship programmes are featured. We hope that this book will be of value to students of innovation and entrepreneurship, regional innovation policy-makers and practitioners.

Download or read book Best Practices and New Perspectives in Service Science and Management written by Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within global commerce, services and management play a vital role in the economy. Service systems are necessary for organizations, and a multi-disciplinary approach is ideal to establish full understanding of these systems. Best Practices and New Perspectives in Service Science and Management provides original research on all aspects of service science, service management, service engineering, and its supporting technology in order to administer cutting-edge knowledge to encourage the improvement of services. This book is essential for researchers and practitioners in the fields of computer science, software management, and engineering.