Innovation by User Communities: Learning From Open-Source Software

By Eric von Hippel. 2001

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Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation (2008, background): “Meanwhile, identification and interaction within a user community means that innovations fuel imitation and extension by other user innovators (von Hippel, 2001).”
International Trade Fairs and Global Buzz, Part I: Ecology of Global Buzz (2010, background): “Having said this, virtual buzz can, of course, support technology development and problem-solving at a global level through professional Internet platforms and intra-firm or corporate software networks (see von Hippel, 2001; Jeppesen & Molin, 2003; Grabher et al., 2008; Rinallo et al., 2008).”
Selective revealing in open innovation processes: the case of embedded Linux (gekürzte Version) (2006, background): “The development of OSS is indeed often performed by users (e.g., Franke and von Hippel 2003, von Hippel 2001).”
Why Do Users Contribute to Firm-Hosted User Communities? The Case of Computer-Controlled Music Instruments (2006, background): “The development possibilities for users have over time been refined and now include enabling technologies for user innovation, referred to as “user toolkits for innovation” in the literature (von Hippel 2001).”
Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development (2012, background): “Thus, “to be an OSS developer” means to engage in a social practice and to adhere to its specific rules of conduct, because these are believed to enable the creation of a high-quality product for its users (von Hippel 2001; von Krogh and von Hippel 2006).”
Cyclical Clusters in Global Circuits: Overlapping Spaces in Furniture Trade Fairs (2008, background): “…1994; Baudrillard 1998; Pine and Gilmore 1999; Olins 2003); (2) a negotiated process of knowledge creation involving multiple actors, many of whom are not commercially involved (Bourdieu 1984; Molotch 2003); and (3) often demand driven, bottom up, upstream, or user driven (von Hippel 2001, 2005).”
Open Source Software and the "Private-Collective" Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science (2003, unknown): “As Lerner and Tirole (2000) and von Krogh (2002) observe, adequate rewards can be provided to participants in open source software projects in a variety of forms, including elevated reputations, expected reciprocity, and incentives to help build a community.”
The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities (2008, methodology): “Open source software has been held up as an exemplar of the process of user-contributed or open innovation (von Hippel, 2001, 2005; West and Gallagher, 2006 While we believe our study makes an important contribution to our understanding of sponsored open source communities — and open source…”
Steal my idea! Organizational adoption of user innovations from a user innovation community: A case study of Dell IdeaStorm (2009, unknown): “With the launch of this website, Dell created a user innovation community where end users freely reveal innovative ideas with community members and Dell [28,27].”
Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects (2006, methodology): “To measure use-value motivations (USE VALUE t 2 2 ), we draw upon the conceptualization of use value in the OSS literature (e.g., von Hippel 2001), using two-scale items that capture the extent to which solving bugs or problems, or adding needed features is important to developers in motivating…”
Location, Location, Location: How Network Embeddedness Affects Project Success in Open Source Systems (2006, unknown): “…and relational database software to various open source initiatives (e.g., Lohr 2004), and with Microsoft explicitly recognizing its competitive rivalry with Linux (e.g., Spencer and Greene 2003), this new model has achieved market legitimacy (e.g., von Hippel 2001, von Hippel and von Krogh 2003).”