Christina's LIS Rant
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Democratizing Innovation by Eric von Hippel
Is available full text online under a Creative Commons License at: http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm. I found this out from the review (to appear) in JASIST (subscription required) by John Cullen.
So why here, why am I posting? A neat little quote from the review in JASIST:
Doesn't this just speak of library 2.0/surfacing data/outreach/catalog apis... ¶ 5:15 PM| |cites (technorati) |
So why here, why am I posting? A neat little quote from the review in JASIST:
"It is perhaps no accident that one of the first case examples used is that of innovation in libraries."Cool... then later in the review:
"His discussion of products where manufacturers increasingly offer toolkits for user innovation and customization is central, and demonstrates how understanding customer/user heterogeneity leads to increased profits and client loyalty, etc. Manufacturing companies generally will not have a choice to deny customers customization toolkits for practical reasons going forward. If the products of competing firms come with toolkits to enable customization in the future, firms that do not offer these will see a migration away from their one size fits all solution to those that recognize the existence of customer need diversity. The toothpaste is out of the tube so to speak, and getting it back in will not be an option. "Incidentally, I know vonHippel's name from some of his work on Open Source Software communities (see more complete paper listing on his cv).
Doesn't this just speak of library 2.0/surfacing data/outreach/catalog apis... ¶ 5:15 PM| |cites (technorati) |
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