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Perspectives on User Innovation

Flowers, Stephen, Henwood, Flis (2010) Perspectives on User Innovation. Imperial College Press, London, 272 pp. ISBN 1-84816-699-0. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:51439)

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Abstract

There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This developing phenomenon has large implications for our understanding of the management of innovation. Drawing on practice-based insights, together with theoretical approaches developed in Innovation Studies and Science and Technology Studies, this book brings together a collection of recent work that examines key aspects of this emerging new model of innovation, while highlighting exciting new ideas in this area. With content contributed by academics, practitioners and researchers, this book is a good reference source for academics and general public interested in the management and policy implications of user innovation.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5351 Business
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use)
Depositing User: Kimberley Attard-Owen
Date Deposited: 04 Nov 2015 11:00 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:21 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51439 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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