Eric von Hippel’s research while affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other places

... User innovations complement so-called producer innovations, which are new products, services or processes that must be sold or adopted by others, before the innovator benefits (von Hippel, 2005). User innovations are found in any part of the economy, but prevail in the household sector: generally 4 to 6% off all citizens can be considered user innovators (von Hippel, 2017; de Jong and von Hippel, 2023). Their innovations are often also valuable to other people facing similar problems or needs, and in such instances diffusion is merited. ...

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An Identity Perspective on the Diffusion of User Innovations in the Household Sector

... This advantage erects barriers to entry and secures a strong position in the market (Farboodi & Veldkamp, 2023). Conversely, at the opposite end, we find data commons-repositories of openly accessible data for innovation (Potts et al., 2023). Here, data serves as a raw material available for all companies to directly fuel the creation of innovative products and services. ...

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Earth Observation data, innovation and economic performance: a study of the downstream sector in Italy

... This applies to smaller companies that do not have EJMBE 32,5 enough resources to develop this innovation process by themselves (Zhang et al., 2021) and to larger companies that want to remain competitive in highly dynamic environments (Joseph et al., 2021). This has given rise to what we understand as innovation ecosystems, i.e. networks of hierarchically heterogeneous and independent organizations that collaborate for the co-creation of a value proposition (Thomas and Ritala, 2022;Konietzko et al., 2020;Moreau et al., 2018). ...

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Innovation in business model as a response to the sharing economy

... Some of the limitations include the skewness of the manual for the use in the production industry. More recent researches have shown the need to extend the standard innovation manuals to cover the public sector (Bloch, 2013) and even to households (de Jong and von Hippel, 2013). Also, the third edition was made to measure innovation in firms with numbers of employees above five or nine, thereby edging out the informal sector which is responsible for over 75% of employment in Africa. ...

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Informal Sector Measurement of Openness, Collaboration and Innovation: The case of Otigba Hardware Microenterprises

... Also, although a web survey is a reasonable method for identifying user innovations, a telephone survey would provide more opportunities to obtain open-ended descriptions (de Jong and von Hippel, 2022). A handful of recent studies have also collected video and photos (Chen et al., 2020;de Jong et al., 2018) and utilized semantic analyses (von Hippel and Cann, 2021) and machine learning techniques (von Hippel and Kaulartz, 2021) to evaluate the value of user innovations. ...

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Why Do User Innovators Want to Pursue User Entrepreneurship? On the Influence of the Communitarian Identity

... One important difference between natural resource commons and knowledge commons is that "knowledge commons arrangements usually must create a governance structure within which participants not only share existing resources but also engage in producing those resources and, indeed, in determining their character" (Frischmann et al., 2014, p. 16). The creativity, adaptability, and rule-sensitivity of the user is also emphasized in the adjacent research field of the "innovation commons" which partially overlaps with the Ostromian framework (Allen & Potts, 2016;Potts, 2019;Potts et al., 2021). Coproduction of the knowledge commons is sometimes referred to as "user innovation" (Strandburg, 2008;von Hippel, 2005von Hippel, , 2017. ...

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Intellectual property, complex externalities, and the knowledge commons

... In the literature, we found that professional autonomy and expertise (Adler et al., 2008;Engel, 1970;Mintzberg, 1979) could be key concepts to understanding how healthcare professionals, i.e., doctors, build on their specialised knowledge to choose the most appropriate way to deliver a service to their patients (Adler & Kwon, 2013). Furthermore, literature on the use recombination of digital resources (Henfridsson et al., 2018;von Hippel, 2021) served as a good starting point for understanding how healthcare professionals combine different resources that provide several options for value creation. ...

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Digital transformation of professional healthcare practices: fitness seeking across a rugged value landscape

... Since it is very much an economics topic, most articles were published in a purely 'economic' journal, The Review of Income and Wealth, which issued a total of 23 papers on intangibles, the first being "The Treatment of Intangible Resources as Capital" by Kendrick (1972). In 2020, the journal published three papers in the field of intangibles: one focused on R&D capital depreciation (Li & Hall, 2020) (Table A1), the second on the impact of intangibles on productivity in Italy (Di Ubaldo & Siedschlag, 2020), and the third on innovation and R&D in private households co-authored by Sichel and Hippel (2020), with the former article being another dominant reference in the intangibles field. Among more economics-oriented journals "Current Problems in Economics" stands out with a total of 12 papers being published. ...

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The study of intangible capital analysis in the economics literature in Scopus sources 1908-2021: Corporate black-box unaddressed

... To increase the richness of these two landscapes, firms must often overcome "functional fixedness," which refers to a constrained perception of the application of a familiar solution to a familiar use. A functional understanding of a need or problem can guide firms to overcome such fixedness to perform a boundary-spanning solution search (Stock-Homburg et al., 2021). Stock-Homburg et al. (2021) find that perceived solution novelty promotes need-solution pair identification. ...

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Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities

... This is recognised as hugely valuable, but there is a limit to its effectiveness. A key lesson learnt is that clinicians as a representative user-voice, cannot fully represent the needs of other hospital users like patients and their families (Demonaco, Oliveira and Von Hippel, 2020, Oftedal, Iakovleva and Bessant, 2019, Pereno, 2020. Therefore, as the Hub becomes more established, working with the wider hospital to integrate patient and families support groups as Hub users is necessary. ...

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Creating new paths: Collaborative challenges in establishing an innovation hub