Perspectives On User Innovation
Will be published approx. on 6. October 2010
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84816-699-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Students, academics and researchers studying and teaching innovation management, managers dealing with innovation processes and new product development in companies.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84816-699-8 (9781848166998)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
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).