There are many more papers in this section than you can stand to read, I am sure. This is where my work began. I started by trying to document the importance of user innovation – and then moved painstakingly on to try to better understand and explain the phenomenon. Fortunately, I have wonderful colleagues and … Continue reading Section 1: Innovation and innovation motivations by users and lead users
SECTION CONTENTS User innovation and the transfer of user innovations to producer firms is currently not well measured by government surveys and traditional statistical indicators. Colleagues and I are working to change this. Recently, colleagues and I have conducted national and targeted surveys on these matters using new indicators designed for the purpose. Papers reporting … Continue reading Section 6: Innovation Policy, User Innovation Measurement Studies
Gambardella, Alfonso and Eric von Hippel (2018) “Open sourcing as a profit-maximizing strategy for downstream firms” Strategy Science, forthcoming ABSTRACT This paper characterizes and explores a corporate strategy in which downstream firms collaborate to develop open substitute designs for proprietary hardware they would otherwise purchase from upstream suppliers. This strategy centrally involves the downstream firms … Continue reading 2018-19 Papers
SECTION CONTENTS Research and also practical work in distributed innovation can require new methods for dividing up tasks, for experimenting in parallel, and for identifying rare individuals who might have something important to contribute. Here are a few papers offering this type of contribution. With respect to modularity – subject of my first-listed paper in … Continue reading Section 7: Methods
Four Basic Lectures These videos record four of my Masters-level Sloan class lectures (each about 60 minutes long). Each presents an aspect of free and user innovation, with practical implications for managers. They are posted on YouTube by MIT OpenCourseWare. You are free to use and download them as you like under the Creative Commons … Continue reading Free Teaching / Learning Materials
This eBook contains both published and new papers that I have authored or coauthored. (ISBN 13:9780615145389). It is periodically updated. The most recent update was February, 2017 Ways to Search You can search by general topic via the section headings in the Table of Contents below. You can search for specific titles or coauthors using … Continue reading Downloadable Papers
Gambardella, Alfonso and Eric von Hippel (2019) “Open sourcing as a profit-maximizing strategy for downstream firms” Strategy Science, forthcoming ABSTRACT This paper characterizes and explores a corporate strategy in which downstream firms collaborate to develop open substitute designs for proprietary hardware they would otherwise purchase from upstream suppliers. This strategy centrally involves the downstream firms … Continue reading Section 8: Models related to the sources of innovation
