Eric von Hippel
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Eric von Hippel (born August 27, 1941 ) is an economist and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management specializing in the principles and economics of distributed innovation and so-called "open innovation". He became known for his concept of "user innovation", which shows that end users and not producers are to a large extent responsible for innovations. To describe this phenomenon, he introduced the term “ lead user ”.
His work is used in business strategies or free and open source - software .
Honors
- Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business Administration at LMU Munich
- Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (2013)
- Schumpeter School Prize of the Schumpeter School of Business and Economics , Wuppertal (2017)
Publications (selection)
- Democratizing Innovation (2005) ISBN 0-262-22074-1 , Creative Commons PDF
- The Sources of Innovation (1988) ISBN 0-19-504085-6 , Creative Commons PDF
Web links
- Eric from Hippel's homepage at MIT .
- Available research papers .
- The Economics of Open Content Symposium: New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age Collaboration and the Marketplace ( Memento from May 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary Doctorate for Prof. Eric von Hippel at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved April 9, 2013
- ^ BU Wuppertal :: Faculty of Economics - Schumpeter School of Business and Economics :: Schumpeter School Prize for Prof. Eric von Hippel. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hippel, Eric von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1941 |