TY - BOOK AU - Hippel,Eric von ED - Project Muse. TI - Free Innovation SN - 9780262335461 AV - HC79.T4 H557 1988 U1 - 338/.064 23 PB - MIT Press KW - Innovations KW - Inventors KW - Technological innovations KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60817/ ER -