Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

Volume 5, Issue 1, January–March 2020, Pages 50-58
Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

Sources of innovation: Consequences for knowledge production and transfer

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Abstract

In his groundbreaking work Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel discussed from where in (and out of) the value-chain innovations came in different industries: the customer, the manufacturer, the supplier, or third-party innovator (universities, research laboratories, etc.).

The world has changed, and new phenomena have become apparent. This article is a conceptual paper that discusses these new phenomena and presents a tentative updated pheno-typology of the sources of innovation, adding six to von Hippel's original four. To build these phenotypes it draws heavily on Kaulio (1998), Borrus and Zysman (1997) and Hart & Kim (2002).

As principal take-away, the consequences for knowledge production and transfer are discussed for each of the 10 phenotypes, in comparison to the in-house, non-open innovation, default phenotype.

JEL classification

O31, 032

Códigos JEL

O31
032

Keywords

Innovation
Tacit knowing
Differentiation
Monopoly rent
Sources of innovation

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