Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

By Carliss Y. Baldwin, Eric von Hippel. Organ. Sci., 2010

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In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that both innovation by individual users and open collaborative innovation increasingly compete with and may displace producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We explain why this represents a paradigm shift with respect to innovation research, policy making, and practice. We discuss important implications and offer suggestions for further research.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Strategy and Management

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Market Failure in the Diffusion of Consumer-Developed Innovations: Patterns in Finland (2015, positive): “Receiving help from other users reduces innovation costs, because the entire value of in-house use is captured by each participant, while innovation costs are shared (Baldwin and von Hippel, 2011).”
Convincing the crowd: Entrepreneurial storytelling in crowdfunding campaigns (2017, background): “For example, we can imagine that the employment of narrative styles might become important for collaborative architectures in the context of open innovation (Ferraro et al. 2015; Baldwin and Hippel, 2011; Fjeldstad et al., 2012).”
The Dynamics of Open Strategy: From Adoption to Reversion (2017, positive): “Similarly, the literature is replete with examples of the phenomenon of Open e Open initiatives (Allen, 1983; Baldwin and von Hippel, 2011; von Hippel, 2005; von Hippel and von Krogh, 2003).”