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  • 2020
  • Article

Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
In this essay, we explore how strategic management research and practice could benefit from considering the benefits and challenges obtainable through working with user communities. User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and... View Details
Keywords: User Communities; Innovation; Open Source; Collaboration; Cooperative Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship

A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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  • 17 Jun 2008
  • Conference Presentation

Economics of Collaborative User Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Keywords: Economics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 30 Jul 2016
  • HBS Conference

Open and User Innovation Conference

  • 11 Jan 2007
  • Conference Presentation

How User Innovations become Commercial Products

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
Keywords: Innovation and Invention
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single user individuals or firms, and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Welfare
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  • December 2017
  • Article

Is There a Doctor in the House? Expert Product Users, Organizational Roles, and Innovation

By: Riitta Katila, Sruthi Thatchenkery, Michael Christensen and Stefanos A. Zenios
We explore the impact on innovation that professional end-users of a product have as inventors, executives, and board members in a young firm. In contrast to prior literature, which has emphasized technology roles, we put the spotlight on the executive and governance... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; User Innovation; Healthcare; Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 8 Jul 2013
  • Lecture

Modularity and Open and User Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Organization Science, 22(6):1399-1417

    We argue that innovation by individual users and open collaborative innovation increasingly compete with and may displace producer innovation in many parts of the economy.

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    • November – December 2011
    • Article

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    By: Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
    In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and architectures and... View Details
    Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Design; Cost; Communication; Competition; Economy; Research; Policy; Practice
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    • 26 Jul 2014
    • HBS Conference

    12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference

    • 2011 - 2011
    • Keynote Speech

    Business Ecosystems and Open and User Innovation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Innovation and Invention
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    • 01 May 2010
    • Conference Presentation

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Change
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    • 01 Jun 2010
    • Conference Presentation

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Change
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    • 01 Sep 2009
    • Conference Presentation

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Change
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    • 15 Dec 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation

    Keywords: by Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda
    • 24 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

    kayaking was a wonderful example of how "user innovations" evolve and eventually become commercial products. Hienerth is a professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, while von Hippel is a professor at MIT Sloan School of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 21 Jul 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

    Keywords: by Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
    • 20 Mar 2017
    • Book

    Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

    Many in business long believed that product innovation sprung from inside their own companies—that is, until economist Eric Arthur von Hippel came along in the late 1970s. Von Hippel proposed that users were... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman