"There are so many moving parts here, " says Karin von Hippel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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This disconnect from the tools and systems eliminates the aspect of Von Hippel-like user-driven innovation that characterized Analyst 1.0.

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One really exciting thing about user-led innovation is that customers seem willing to donate their creativity freely, says Mr Von Hippel.

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Von Hippel has for the first time given us a scale to work against when we think of the power of adaptive consumers.

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The form of leadership that holds most potential is a twist on the pattern described by Eric Von Hippel in his research on User-driven Innovation.

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The companies that succeed are the ones that stay in the closest contact with their end-users and first adopters, as MIT's Eric Von Hippel has shown.

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Harnessing customer innovation requires different methods, says Mr Von Hippel.

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Von Hippel has shown that if you put the means to create solutions in the hands of the people who will use the solution, a tremendous amount of innovation results.

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Blair, Feiveson and von Hippel by theirs.

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The theory of user-driven innovation comes from MIT professor Eric von Hippel, who proposed that when tools are placed directly in the hands of people who have the most pressing needs for answers, innovation happens, because there is no longer a need to transmit requirements from one person (or group) to another.

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