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Michel Bauwens"Eric von Hippel proffers multiple examples where an ordinary user, frustrated or even desperate, solves a problem through innovation. His research found innovative users playing with all manner of product: mountain bikes, library IT systems, agricultural irrigation, and scientific instruments. Often, manufacturers keep at arm’s length from these inventions. He describes the Lego company “standing like a deer in headlights” when technologically adept adults discovered they could design their own sophisticated Lego robots. User communities arise, freely communicate with each other, advance ideas and sometimes even “drive the manufacturer out of product design,” according to von Hippel. "
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Christopher ArnoldEric von Hippel proffers multiple examples where an ordinary user, frustrated or even desperate, solves a problem through innovation.
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buchmacherSPEAKER:
Eric von Hippel
Professor of Management and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, MIT Sloan School of Management
ABOUT THE LECTURE:
If you have ever come up with a work-around or improvement for a balky product only to fin -
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