Democratizing innovation processes: personal initiative in bottom-up eco-innovation

Democratizing innovation

Democratizing Innovation

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9 Democratizing Innovation

We have learned that lead users sometimes develop and modify products for themselves and often freely reveal what they have done. We have also seen that many users can be interested in adopting the solutions that lead users have developed. Taken together, these findings offer the basis for user-centered innovation systems that can entirely supplant manufacturer-based innovation systems under so...

Bottom-up, Decentralized Approach to Innovation Strategy

New conditions contributes the emergence of new concepts of innovation strategies in the enterprise. The study conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit shows a new approach to innovation. Future innovations will be enforced and invented by users (clients)and they will be a key element of competitive advantage. The company will therefore be forced to turn their customers to its information s...

Hacking Health: Bottom-up Innovation for Healthcare

In many countries, healthcare services are not currently provided in a sustainable manner. Healthcare systems and institutions are still largely based on providing acute and reactionary care; this approach is not well suited to the increasing burden of chronic disease in an aging population that requires more preventative and long-term care (World Health Organization, 2002: tinyurl.com/d5mf4dp)...