After the first post, here I suggest you another report from Nordic Innovation Centre, a longer and more detailed one, edited by Emily Wise and Casper Høgenhaven: “User-Driven Innovation. Context and Cases in the Nordic Region“.

In this report, user-driven innovation is defined as the process of tapping users’ knowledge in order to develop new products, [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation, Northern Europe

Openmoko: Neo1973

We can say that these days the first mass product completely open source has been distributed. Therefore, this is the first example of a real Open Design, not tied to individual experiments or niche markets (albeit very important): the first example of how open source philosophy can be adopted not only in areas different [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community-Based Services, Free Software, Mobile, Open Source, Product Design

Another ladder of participation, but this time it is for Businesses based on Participation, and comes from Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation).

Consumption: Consumer -> cash -> company’s products/services made entirely by company
Self Service: Consumer -> choice -> cash -> company’s products/services made entirely by company
DIY Do it yourself: Consumer -> degree of involvement in the [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Participation

“User-driven innovation: when the user makes the difference”

The report is the result of an extensive pilot-project with an aim of clarifying the awareness and use of user-driven innovation in the Nordic countries.
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This report is written, during the spring of 2007, by a group of students from the Norwegian University of Science And Technology (NTNU) in [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Economy, Innovation

Xara

While surfing through my favourtie websites I found on linux.com a very interesting article: Lessons learned from open source Xara’s failure, written by Nathan Willis.
For us, it is intersting twice: as Xara is an open source / proprietary vector drawing software (and therefore could be interesting for designers), and because it explains which errors should [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Open Source

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These Open Peer-to-Peer design steps should be considered more as guidelines than a complete methodology: we should apply them, test them, study them more (as in research as in practice).
And this is the right time to study [...]

Tags: Bottom of the Pyramid, Business/Service, Design Methodology, Design Research, Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Local Services