Prof. von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation is also available as a free download under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The user innovation paradigm |
  von Hippel, Eric. Chapters 1 and 2 in Democratizing Innovation. MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780262002745. [Preview with Google Books] |
| 2 | Going for user solutions instead of user needs—the "Lead User Method" |
von Hippel, Eric, Stefan Thomke, and Mary Sonnack. "Creating Breakthroughs at 3M." Harvard Business Review, September-October 1999.
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| 3 | How patents discourage innovation—and what to do about it | Torrance, Andrew, and Bill Tomlinson. "Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts." The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review X (2009): 130–68. |
| 4 | User innovation communities |
———. "Innovation by User Communities: Learning from Open Source Software." Sloan Management Review 42, no. 4 (2001): 82–6. |
| 5 | Exploring new combinations of customer needs | Urban, Glen, and John R. Hauser. "'Listening In' to Find and Explore New Combinations of Customer Needs." Journal of Marketing 68, no. 2 (2004): 72–87. |
| 6 | Determine users' needs ethnographically and then develop solutions | Leonard, Dorothy, and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Spark Innovation Through Empathic Design." Harvard Business Review, November 1997. |
| 7 | The MIT Media Lab approach: "Build it and they will come" | |
| 8 | Is intellectual property good or bad—how to be partially closed and partially open | Raasch, et al. "The Dynamics of User Innovation: Drivers and Impediments of Innovation Activities." International Journal of Innovation Management 12, no. 3 (2008): 377–98. |
| 9 | What user hacking looks like—and why people do it | |
| 10 | Design and manufacture of "mass customized" products with toolkits / platforms for user innovation | Thomke, Stefan, and Eric von Hippel. "Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value." Harvard Business Review, vol. 80, no. 4, April, 2002, 74–81. |
| 11 | Crowdsourcing | |
| 12 | Tying it all together—when to use each idea generation method and why to expect corporate resistance to your (great) innovations! |
Morison, Elting. "Gunfire at Sea." Chapter 2 in Men, Machines and Modern Times. MIT Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780262630184. |