Standout Papers

Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts 1986 2026 1999 2012 2.5k
  1. Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts (1986)
    Eric von Hippel Management Science
  2. “Sticky Information” and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation (1994)
    Eric von Hippel Management Science
  3. The Sources of Innovation (2007)
    Eric von Hippel Gabler eBooks
  4. Democratizing Innovation (2005)
    Eric von Hippel The MIT Press eBooks
  5. Open Source Software and the “Private-Collective” Innovation Model: Issues for Organization Science (2003)
    Eric von Hippel, Georg von Krogh Organization Science
  6. How open source software works: “free” user-to-user assistance (2003)
    Karim R. Lakhani, Eric von Hippel Research Policy
  7. Lead User Analyses for the Development of New Industrial Products (1988)
    Glen L. Urban, Eric von Hippel Management Science
  8. The dominant role of users in the scientific instrument innovation process (1976)
    Eric von Hippel Research Policy
  9. Customers As Innovators: A New Way to Create Value (2002)
    Stefan Thomke, Eric von Hippel Harvard business review
  10. Performance Assessment of the Lead User Idea-Generation Process for New Product Development (2002)
    Gary L. Lilien, Pamela Morrison et al. Management Science
  11. Economics of Product Development by Users: The Impact of “Sticky” Local Information (1998)
    Eric von Hippel Management Science

Immediate Impact

2 by Nobel laureates 132 standout
Sub-graph 1 of 14

Citing Papers

Generating Theory by Abduction
2021 Standout
How Applying Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Can Provide Sustainable Competitive Advantage
2018 Standout
7 intermediate papers

Works of Eric von Hippel being referenced

The Sources of Innovation
2007 Standout
The dominant role of users in the scientific instrument innovation process
1976 Standout
and 11 more

Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Eric von Hippel 9229 10887 2668 5773 90 24.3k
Henry Chesbrough 3836 16389 2268 7631 100 26.3k
Ikujiro Nonaka 1366 14222 2865 4165 71 27.1k
Michael L. Tushman 1580 26735 7106 8637 136 40.7k
Georg von Krogh 3557 5595 1422 1973 153 13.3k
Daniel A. Levinthal 1594 30185 6613 9374 101 45.2k
Ammon Salter 1527 10060 2185 5299 103 15.9k
Kalle Lyytinen 1776 5958 2562 2539 313 17.8k
Satish Nambisan 1153 5136 1138 3543 63 12.4k
Wesley M. Cohen 1114 21174 3053 9012 48 33.9k
Wanda J. Orlikowski 2406 6384 3010 2385 102 28.0k

All Works

Loading papers...

Rankless by CCL
2026