Works
- Open source software and the "private-collective" innovation model: issues for organization science, Organization Science 14(2), 209 to 223, 2003
In Organizational Structures
Known for
User innovation and distributed innovation
Ideas
The private-collective model. With von Krogh, von Hippel proposed that open source development combines the private investment and collective action models of innovation: users program to solve their own and shared problems and freely reveal what they make. Caveat: A conceptual proposal with a research agenda.