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 remained 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 policymakers hear directly from these new inventors.
Published
July 2008
Author
Howard Rush, Chris Smith, Erika Kraemer-Mbula and Puay Tang, CENTRIM, University of Brighton
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