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This eBook (ISBN 13: 978-0-615-14538-9) will be periodically updated.

The most recent update was December 18, 2012

This eBook contains a number of articles that I have authored or coauthored. In each of the areas where my colleagues and I have worked, there is obviously a great deal of wonderful work by others as well. Please use the references in the more recent papers as one resource to guide you to the related work of others.

Paper Index

You can click on each section heading to see abstracts and links to full text versions of each of the papers in that group.

Section 1: Innovation by users and lead users

Demonaco, Harold J, Ayfer Ali, and Eric von Hippel. “The Major Role of Clinicians in the Discovery of Off-label Drug Therapies.” Pharmacotherapy 26, no. 3 (March 2006): 323–32. doi:10.1592/phco.26.3.323.
Franke, Nikolaus, Eric von Hippel, and Martin Schreier. “Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Test of Lead-User Theory.” Journal of Product Innovation Management 23, no. 4 (2006): 301–315. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5885.2006.00203.x.
Herstatt, Cornelius, and Eric von Hippel. “From Experience: Developing New Product Concepts via the Lead User Method: A Case Study in a ‘Low-tech’ Field.” Journal of Product Innovation Management 9, no. 3 (September 1992): 213–221. doi:10.1016/0737-6782(92)90031-7.
Hienerth, Christoph, Eric A. von Hippel, and Morten Berg Jensen. “Efficiency of Consumer (Household Sector) Vs. Producer Innovation.” SSRN eLibrary (September 1, 2012). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1916319.
von Hippel, Eric A. “The Dominant Role of Users in the Scientific Instrument Innovation Process.” Research Policy 5, no. 3 (July 1976): 212–239. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(76)90028-7.
von Hippel, Eric A., and Stan N. Finkelstein. “Analysis of Innovation in Automated Clinical Chemistry Analyzers.” Science & Public Policy 6, no. 1 (February 1979): 24–37.
von Hippel, Eric. “Appropriability of Innovation Benefit as a Predictor of the Source of Innovation.” Research Policy 11, no. 2 (April 1982): 95–115. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(82)90037-3.
———. “Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts.” Management Science 32, no. 7 (July 1986): 791–805.
———. “Successful Industrial Products from Customer Ideas.” Journal of Marketing 42, no. 1 (January 1978): 39–49.
———. “The Dominant Role of the User in Semiconductor and Electronic Subassembly Process Innovation.” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management EM-24, no. 2 (May 1977): 60–71.
———. “Transferring Process Equipment Innovations from User-innovators to Equipment Manufacturing Firms.” R&D Management 8, no. 1 (1977): 13–22. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9310.1977.tb01270.x.
von Hippel, Eric, Susumu Ogawa, and Jeoron P. J. de Jong. “The Age of the Consumer-innovator.” MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 1 (2011): 27–35.
von Hippel, Eric, and William Riggs. A Lead User Study of Electronic Home Banking Services : Lessons from the Learning Curve Sloan Working Paper. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1996. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/2627.
von Hippel, Eric, Stefan Thomke, and Mary Sonnack. “Creating Breakthroughs at 3M.” Harvard Business Review 77, no. 5 (September 1999): 47–57.
Lilien, Gary L., Pamela D. Morrison, Kathleen Searls, Mary Sonnack, and Eric von Hippel. “Performance Assessment of the Lead User Idea-Generation Process for New Product Development.” Management Science 48, no. 8 (2002): 1042–1059.
Morrison, Pamela D., John H. Roberts, and Eric von Hippel. “Determinants of User Innovation and Innovation Sharing in a Local Market.” Management Science 46, no. 12 (December 2000): 1513.
Oliveira, Pedro, and Eric von Hippel. “Users as Service Innovators: The Case of Banking Services.” Research Policy 40, no. 6 (July 2011): 806–818. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2011.03.009.
Riggs, William, and Eric von Hippel. “The Impact of Scientific and Commercial Values on the Sources of Scientific Instrument Innovation.” Research Policy 23, no. 4 (July 1994): 459–469. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(94)90008-6.
Urban, Glen I., and Eric von Hippel. “Lead User Analyses for the Development of New Industrial Products.” Management Science 34, no. 5 (May 1988): 569–582.

Section 2: Sticky Information

von Hippel, Eric A., and Marcie J. Tyre. “How Learning by Doing Is Done: Problem Identification in Novel Process Equipment.” Research Policy 24, no. 1 (January 1995): 1–12. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(93)00747-H.
von Hippel, Eric. “Economics of Product Development by Users: The Impact of `sticky’ Local Information.” Management Science 44, no. 5 (May 1998): 629–644.
———. “‘Sticky Information’ and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation.” Management Science 40, no. 4 (April 1994): 429–439.
Luthje, Christian, Cornelius Herstatt, and Eric von Hippel. “User-innovators and ‘Local’ Information: The Case of Mountain Biking.” Research Policy 34, no. 6 (August 2005): 951–965. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2005.05.005.
Tyre, Marcie J., and Eric von Hippel. “The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations.” Organization Science 8, no. 1 (January 1997): 71–83.

Section 3: Open information / Intellectual property / Information trading

Fauchart, Emmanuelle, and Eric von Hippel. “Norms-based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs.” Organization Science 19, no. 2 (March 2008): 187–201. doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0314.
Harhoff, Dietmar, Joachim Henkel, and Eric von Hippel. “Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations.” Research Policy 32, no. 10 (December 2003): 1753–1769. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00061-1.
Henkel, Joachim, and Eric von Hippel. “Welfare Implications of User Innovation.” The Journal of Technology Transfer 30, no. 1 (December 1, 2004): 73–87. doi:10.1007/s10961-004-4359-6.
von Hippel, Eric. “Cooperation Between Rivals: Informal Know-how Trading.” Research Policy 16, no. 6 (December 1987): 291–302. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(87)90015-1.
von Hippel, Eric, and Georg von Krogh. “Open Source Software and the ‘Private-collective’ Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science.” Organization Science 14, no. 2 (March 2003): 209–223. doi:Article.
von Hippel, Eric, and Stephan Schrader. “‘Managed’ Informal Information Trading: The Oil Scout System in Oil Exploration Firms.” International Journal of Technology Management 11 (1996): 207–218.
Lakhani, Karim R., and Eric von Hippel. “How Open Source Software Works: ‘Free’ User-to-user Assistance.” Research Policy 32, no. 6 (June 2003): 923–943. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00095-1.

Section 4: Innovation Communities / Community Economics

Baldwin, Carliss Y., Christoph Hienerth, and Eric von Hippel. “How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study.” Research Policy 35, no. 9 (2006): 1291–1313.
Füller, Johann, and Eric von Hippel. Costless Creation of Strong Brands by User Communities: Implications for Producer-Owned Brands Sloan Working Paper. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2008.
von Hippel, Eric. “Horizontal Innovation Networks--by and for Users.” Industrial and Corporate Change (May 16, 2007). doi:10.1093/icc/dtm005.
———. “Innovation by User Communities: Learning from Open-Source Software.” MIT Sloan Management Review 42, no. 4 (Summer 2001): 82.

Section 5: Innovation toolkits

DeMonaco, Harold J., and Eric von Hippel. “Reducing Medical Costs and Improving Quality via Self-Management Tools.” PLoS Medicine 4, no. 4 (April 1, 2007): e104 EP –. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040104.
Franke, Nikolaus, and Eric von Hippel. “Satisfying Heterogeneous User Needs via Innovation Toolkits: The Case of Apache Security Software.” Research Policy 32, no. 7 (July 2003): 1199–1215. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00049-0.
von Hippel, Eric. “Perspective: User Toolkits for Innovation.” Journal of Product Innovation Management 18, no. 4 (July 2001): 247–257. doi:10.1016/S0737-6782(01)00090-X.
von Hippel, Eric, and Ralph Katz. “Shifting Innovation to Users via Toolkits.” Management Science 48, no. 7 (July 2002): 821–833.
Thomke, Stefan, and Eric von Hippel. “Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value.” Harvard Business Review 80, no. 4 (April 2002): 74–81.

Section 6: Innovation Policy, Innovation Measurement

Gault, Fred, and Eric A von Hippel. The Prevalence of User Innovation and Free Innovation Transfers: Implications for Statistical Indicators and Innovation Policy. MIT Sloan Working Papers. MIT Sloan School of Management, February 3, 2009. SSRN. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1337232.
von Hippel, Eric A., Jeroen P. J. de Jong, and Steven Flowers. “Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the UK.” SSRN eLibrary (September 27, 2010). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1683503.
von Hippel, Eric, and Chen Jin. “The Major Shift Towards User-centered Innovation: Implications for China’s Innovation Policymaking.” Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 16–27.
De Jong, Jeoron P. J., and Eric A von Hippel. Measuring User Innovation in Dutch High Tech SMEs: Frequency, Nature and Transfer to Producers. MIT Sloan Working Papers. MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2009.

Section 7: Methods

von Hippel, Eric. “Task Partitioning: An Innovation Process Variable.” Research Policy 19, no. 5 (October 1990): 407–418. doi:10.1016/0048-7333(90)90049-C.
von Hippel, Eric, Nikolaus Franke, and Reinhard Prugl. “Pyramiding”: Efficient Identification of Rare Subjects Sloan Working Paper. 4720-08. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2008. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1286227.
Thomke, Stefan, Eric von Hippel, and Roland Franke. “Modes of Experimentation: An Innovation Process--and Competitive--variable.” Research Policy 27, no. 3 (July 1998): 315–332. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(98)00041-9.

Section 8: Models of the sources of innovation

Baldwin, Carliss, and Eric von Hippel. “Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation.” Organization Science 22, no. 6 (December 2011): 1399 –1417. doi:10.1287/orsc.1100.0618.
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Christoph Hienerth, and Eric von Hippel. “How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study.” Research Policy 35, no. 9 (2006): 1291–1313.
Raasch, Christina, and Eric A. von Hippel. “Modeling Interactions Between User and Producer Innovation: User-Contested and User-Complemented Markets.” SSRN eLibrary (June 7, 2012). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2079763.

Collected Papers of Eric von Hippel

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