Democratizing innovation
by Eric von Hippel · 1 Apr 2005 · 220pp · 73,451 words
. Physica. Bibliography 185 Chamberlin, E. H. 1950. “Product Heterogeneity and Public Policy.” American Economic Review 40, no. 2: 85–92. Christensen, C. M. 1997. The Innovator’s Dilemma. Harvard Business School Press. Cohen, W. M., A. Goto, A. Nagata, R. R. Nelson, and J. P. Walsh. 2002. “R&D Spillovers, Patents and the
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. Chris’s paper was a lament, dedicated to Carter and written in anger. It was titled “A Requiem for Defense Innovation? Ukraine, the Pentagon’s Innovator’s Dilemma, and Why the U.S. Risks Strategic Surprise.” The conference organizer had asked him to tone it down. Chris did not. Instead, he called out
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control can sometimes systematically fail. The idea here has been made familiar by Professor Clay Christensen of the Harvard Business School in his book The Innovator's Dilemma. 15 The dilemma describes a perfectly understandable series of decisions that leads well-managed companies to miss the opportunities of disruptive technological change. Leading companies
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of what is rational from the perspective of a single actor may well prove irrational from the perspective of the market as a whole. The Innovator's Dilemma offers its own strategy for dealing with this blindness. But we can see in the Internet a strategy for dealing with the very same blindness
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against the new? Which permit the new the most freedom to question the old? This raises again precisely the issues that Christensen describes in his Innovator's Dilemma. As I've said, Christensen's argument doesn't depend upon stupidity. He is not identifying a failure in the market; he's identifying a
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, but in part the problem of strategic behavior that we've seen in many different contexts. It is the problem Christensen is discussing in The Innovator's Dilemma: the problem of nonneutral platforms that guided my review in chapter 4 of open code projects. My claim is not that these transaction costs are
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Feeling,” American Economic Review 90 (2000): 439. 16 E-mail from David S. Isenberg to Lawrence Lessig, January 29, 2001. 17 Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed the Way We Do Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 18 Telephone interview with David Reed. 19
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of its new Internet platform.” The platform was designed, at least initially, to be a “complot for interoperability.” Ibid., 198. Following Christensen's recommendations in Innovator's Dilemma, the strategy was born from a spin-off that Microsoft created with executive Adam Bosworth. Ibid., 196. To “his credit,” as Bank writes, “Gates never
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management books consider multiple facets of the problem but focus on different aspects. Insightful exemplars within the customer-focus school are Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997); W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s Blue Ocean Strategy (Boston
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the Right Network Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196 Identify Key Risk Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198 Partner with Legal, IT, and PR 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 The Future of Social Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203 The Innovator’s Dilemma The ROI of Social Social Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 What the Future Means for Doing Business Final Remarks A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .206 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211 Snapshot of Top Social
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like to forward related articles and other people’s ideas that help establish our point. For instance, we often referenced Clayton M. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, two thought-provoking books that validated our crusade. It is essential to spend time learning about what is
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do you see why packet switching wouldn’t work?” To their great disappointment, Baran simply replied, “No.” Once again, AT&T was stymied by the innovator’s dilemma. It balked at considering a whole new type of data network because it was so invested in traditional circuits.57 Baran’s work eventually culminated
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longer we operate, the more organizational debt we likely carry with us, limiting our ability to innovate. Indeed, Professor Clayton Christensen coined the term “the innovator’s dilemma” to describe why incumbents are so often disrupted by upstarts and unexpected competitors. To resist this pattern, try launching a red team. Originating in the
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of Accelerating Returns,” March 7, 2001. See: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns. we use the term “disruptive innovation”: Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (HarperBusiness, 2000), pp. 15–19. Enter distributed electric propulsion, or DEP for short: Mark Moore, “Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft,” Nasa Langley Research Center. See: https
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