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INNOVATION DEMOCRATIZATION
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 02/08/2007
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Innovation
The proliferation of "user-generated" designs signals the "democratizing" of innovation. Or so the saying goes, at least when you talk to experts like Eric von Hippel, a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. he argues that ordinary people, armed with inexpensive digital tools and networks can band together to push their own innovations. And furthermore "the people" can also hijack existing technologies, taking them in directions only dimly envisioned by the original creators. However...