Eric von Hippel interviewed …
Via Experiantia I learned about this interview with Eric von Hippel by Gartner research fellow Tom Austin:
[…] to discuss his new book: Democratizing Innovation. This seminal book – based on a broad base of academic research – explores how users have been driving the innovation process for centuries. It also discusses opportunities that organizations can avail themselves of by exploiting user-driven innovation.
Professor von Hippel recalls how he came about his research interest and how the field emerged and grew up (against some odds as well). This is an interview chockful of nice quotes and storytelling, an extremely interesting read for anyone who’s interested in innovtion management, in the how-tos of supporting innovations from users, or she who wants to understand the mechanisms of internet-enabled collaboration like e.g. in open source software projects …
