Tag Archives: Eric von Hippel

2015 Top Downloaded Innovation Articles in JPIM

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Gary R Schirr

Gloria Barczak, editor of the leading journal on innovation, JPIM has provided a list of the top downloaded articles from their website. You can download the list as a PDF here: Top 10 2015 JPIM Downloaded Articles (2). These are the … Continue reading →

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Innovation books – what do we NEED?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Gary R Schirr

The process of coming up with a long list of 16 favorite innovation books got me to thinking about What is missing – What is the Blue Ocean space in popular innovation reading?

I think I found two blue patches – Do you spot others?? Or do you think I missed a great book in those patches? Continue reading →

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My very favorite books on #innovation : K to Z

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Gary R Schirr

Here are the remaining nine of my 16 favorite innovation books. As I related in the discussion of the first 7 books in my last post, these books are my personal favorite books on innovation and are listed in alphabetic order by … Continue reading →

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My very favorite #books on #innovation : A to I

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Gary R Schirr

I decided to create a list of my 10 favorite innovation books…but came up with 15. It was hard enough to narrow the list to nearly 10 – no way I was going to try to rank order them. So … Continue reading →

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Innovation Week in Review – March 18, 2011

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Gary R Schirr

Twitter friends helped in the crowdsourcing of a proposal for a new course in social media marketing. Plus a summary of interesting links on innovation, co-creation and social media marketing. Continue reading →

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Why do users collaborate??

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

Every firm has an IP unit that is looking to protect and harvest the ideas generated within the organization. Patent Trolls are infamous in software and other high tech areas. Why then are users willing to collaborate with firms and … Continue reading →

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Open source and “orphan markets”

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

Open source and Lead Users are recurring ideas in effective NSD. I was interested to read about how an organization (goods-designing) is using both techniques for the good of people with missing limbs… An interesting article in Leatherneck.com (citing Scientific … Continue reading →

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Interview with Eric von Hippel (2007)

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Gary R Schirr

von Hippel talks about his insight into user-driven innovation for services and goods in this 2007 interview: http://www.gartner.com/research/fellows/asset_172822_1176.jsp The PDMA blog points out some of the high points in the interview, so I can be lazy: http://blog.pdma.org/ von Hippel was … Continue reading →

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