Role of Lead Users in Innovation, the
Eric von Hippel · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2016
Due to rapidly falling innovation design and communication costs, users are increasingly able to innovate for themselves without the assistance of producers. Innovation by users and ‘lead users’ may be larger in aggregate than innovation by producers in aggregate, and innovation research, policies and practices are adapting accordingly. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.