Free Innovation lays out the central role that individuals and groups interacting socially, without prices or property, play in exploring the very frontiers of innovation. Innovation is the most important aspect of growth, and Eric von Hippel is one of the handful of scholars in the world who have ever had a genuinely original and fundamental point to make about it. No one who hasn't read this book can claim to be serious about innovation research, policy, or practice. -- Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Free Innovation is a tour de force. It is a continuation of a long stream of important scholarship by Eric von Hippel that puts the proactive role of users and communities center stage in the innovation process. Eric has been ahead of his time as the internet economy is making his frameworks increasingly relevant in the global system of innovation. -- David Teece, Faculty Director, Institute for Business Innovation, University of California, Berkeley Eric von Hippel is a visionary innovation scholar who has helped policymakers around the world understand modern innovation processes much more deeply. In Free Innovation he offers a powerful and effective template to increase the welfare of nations through more sophisticated and relevant free and user innovation policies. I predict it will have a strong impact both within the European Union and worldwide. -- Carlos Moedas, European Union Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Eric von Hippel brilliantly describes a new innovation paradigm for the internet age. Free Innovation will have a strong and lasting effect on research, management, and public policy. -- Dietmar Harhoff, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munchen Companies that find ways to work with free innovators will develop better products and services and also create more loyal customers. Eric von Hippel describes, with powerful frameworks and rich examples, what is happening in the real world and how corporations can profit. -- Jim Euchner, Vice President, Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; MIT Innovation Lab The invaluable insights and solutions described in Free Innovation must be recognized and supported by all consumer goods producers serious about sustainable growth. Our company uses these methods with great commercial success. -- Bernadette Piacek-Llanes, Vice President of Innovation, Technology, and Quality, General Mills; MIT Innovation Lab
Eric von Hippel, the T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Technological Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a leading research scholar on the economics and management of free, open, and distributed innovation.
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