Free Innovation - Hippel, Eric von.; Project Muse. (MIT Press, 2016)
Introducing free innovation -- Scale and self-rewarding nature of free innovation -- Viability of individual and collaborative free innovation -- Innovation pioneering by free innovators -- Diffusion shortfall in free innovation -- Free and producer paradigm interactions -- Competition for free innovator resources -- Large scope of free innovation -- Factors promoting free innovator success -- Preserving free innovatorsa' strong legal rights -- Next steps in free innovation research, policy, and practice -- Appendix 1: Household sector innovation survey questionnaire -- Appendix 2: Model of the user innovation paradigm : impacts on markets and welfare -- References -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Innovations; Inventors; Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; Electronic books