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“benefits from a solution to the needs they have encountered there. The correlations found between innovation by users and lead user status are highly”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

“innovating users (both individuals and firms) show them to have the characteristics”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

“40 percent—engage in developing or modifying products. About half of these studies do not determine representative innovation frequencies;”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation

“In the specific instance of product and service development, a major divergence of interests between user and custom manufacturer does exist: the user wants to get precisely what it needs, to the extent that it can afford to do so. In contrast, the custom manufacturer wants to lower its development costs by incorporating solution elements it already has or that it predicts others will want in the future—even if by doing so it does not serve its present client’s needs as well as it could.”
― Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation