Eric von Hippel

Eric von Hippel ( born August 27, 1941) is an economist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management with specialization in economics and principles of distributed innovation and so-called " open innovation ". He became famous for his concept of "user innovation", which indicates that end-users and not producers are responsible for a significant part of innovation. To describe this phenomenon, he introduced the term "lead user".

His work is used in business strategies or free and open source software.

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Munich
  • Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Hamburg -Harburg (2013 )

Publications (selection )

  • Democratizing Innovation ( 2005) ISBN 0-262-22074-1, Creative Commons PDF
  • The Sources of Innovation ( 1988) ISBN 0-19-504085-6, Creative Commons PDF
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