The new inventors: how users are changing the rules of innovation

Steve Flowers; Juan Mateos-Garcia; Jonathan Sapsed; Paul Nightingale; Andrew Grantham; Georgina Voss

The new inventors: how users are changing the rules of innovation

Steve Flowers, Juan Mateos-Garcia, Jonathan Sapsed, Paul Nightingale, Andrew Grantham, Georgina Voss

University of Brighton

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Abstract

User-led innovation - where users play an active part in the development of new or improved products and services - is exploding: proliferating digital technologies mean that we're all potential innovators now. New firms based on user-led innovation are being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars only a few years after being founded. Policymakers have remain somewhat sceptical about the importance of user-led innovation. But if the UK is to harness this new wave of invention and creativity, it needs to develop world-leading policy in support of user-led innovation. This means being more aware of the impact of new legislation on user-led innovation, and establishing a forum to ensure that policy makers hear directly from these new inventors.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	NESTA
Number of pages	44
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2008

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Keywords

User innovation
User communities
Creative industries
Video and computer games
Music industry
Social networking
Music software
Innovation
CENTRIM

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