Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centred innovation.
Managers often isolate their innovation teams, but wouldn’t it be better to engage all the workers in innovation? This book describes a framework that makes innovation a daily consideration for all.
Once a paradigm is in place, as Kuhn writes, researchers can engage in very productive “normal science,” testing and more precisely filling in pieces of a paradigm now assumed to be correct in broad outline. However, as Kuhn also ...
This concludes our journey of discovery through the precepts and practices of democratized innovation. The reader may have already initiated the innovation process by devising ways to implement democratized innovation in his or her ...
This book describes how to establish an organic quality in an organization that will improve its agility and sustainability.
Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy.
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Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning ...
From Imitation to Innovation George S. Yip, Bruce McKern. maverick with a very clear strategy . In 2005 he said : “ eBay may be a shark in the ocean , but I am a crocodile in the Yangtze River . If we fight in the ocean , we lose — but ...
The book explains that follow-on innovations may be subject to market failures such as hold-ups and excessive royalties.
As part of engaging a wider community of policy users and indicator developers, Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World: Responding to Policy Needs is a selection of...