TY - CHAP
T1 - From innovation to firm formation
T2 - Contributions by sports enthusiasts to the windsurfing, snowboarding & skateboarding industries
AU - Shah, Sonali K
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Teams of employees at firms innovate. Scientists and engineers at universities and research institutions innovate. Inventors at private labs innovate. Regular people consume. Wrong! Regular people innovate, too. Users have been the source of many large and small innovations across a wide range of product classes, industries, and even scientific disciplines. In this paper I describe the contributions made by user innovators in the windsurfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding industries.
AB - Teams of employees at firms innovate. Scientists and engineers at universities and research institutions innovate. Inventors at private labs innovate. Regular people consume. Wrong! Regular people innovate, too. Users have been the source of many large and small innovations across a wide range of product classes, industries, and even scientific disciplines. In this paper I describe the contributions made by user innovators in the windsurfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding industries.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-45951-6_6
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-45951-6_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84885370265
SN - 0387346805
SN - 9780387317731
VL - 3
SP - 29
EP - 34
BT - Developments for Innovation
PB - Springer
ER -