The New Inventors: How users are changing the rules of innovation

Flowers, Stephen, Mateos-Garcia, Juan, Sapsed, Jonathan, Nightingale, Paul, Grantham, Andrew and Voss, Georgina (2008) The New Inventors: How users are changing the rules of innovation Project Report. NESTA, London, UK.

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Abstract

User-led innovation - where users play an active part in the development of new or improved products and services - is exploding: proliferating digital technologies mean that we're all potential innovators now. New firms based on user-led innovation are being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars only a few years after being founded. Policymakers have remain somewhat sceptical about the importance of user-led innovation. But if the UK is to harness this new wave of invention and creativity, it needs to develop world-leading policy in support of user-led innovation. This means being more aware of the impact of new legislation on user-led innovation, and establishing a forum to ensure that policy makers hear directly from these new inventors.

Item Type:Monograph (Project Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords:User innovation; User communities; Creative industries; Video and computer games; Music industry; Social networking; Music software; CENTRIM
Subjects:P000 Mass Communications and Documentation > P300 Media studies > P310 Media Production
N000 Business and Management > N200 Management studies > N210 Management techniques > N215 Change and Innovation
Faculties:Brighton Business School > Centre for Research in Innovation Management
ID Code:5098
Deposited By:editor centrim
Deposited On:20 May 2010
Last Modified:08 Oct 2010 02:18

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