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WorksheetsSKILLS - MOD 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 16mins
In user innovation, what is the fundamental difference between a user innovator and a producer innovator?
User innovators do not have the resources of producer innovators
Users benefit directly from their innovations
What does X stand for?
The X wants to get precisely what the X needs, to the extent that the X can afford to do so. In contrast, the Y wants to lower Y’s development costs by incorporating solution elements the Y already has or that the Y predicts others will want in the future.
(a)
Users tend to develop innovations that:
(2 are correct)
are functionally novel
require substantial user-need and context-of-use information
are incremental
are dimension-of-merit improvements
Manufacturers tend to develop innovations that:
are functionally novel
are improvements on well-known needs
foreshadow future market need
require substantial user-need and context-of-use information
The X wants to get precisely what the X needs, to the extent that the X can afford to do so. In contrast, the Y wants to lower Y’s development costs by incorporating solution elements the Y already has or that the Y predicts others will want in the future
.What does Y stand for?
(a)
Need and solution information are often very [FILL IN THE BLANK] – that is, costly to move from the site where the information was generated to other sites.
(a)
Consider the following excerpt from Technology Review on the invention of the World Wide Web and its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
"Berners-Lee’s innovation was to apply hypertext to the growing reality of networked computers. He expanded the idea he had developed at CERN and made it available on the Internet in the summer of 1991."
The invention of the World Wide Web was not a user innovation. Rather, it was a producer innovation because Tim Berners-Lee was employed by CERN when he made the invention.
true
false
Who is likely to have better system-of-use information?
User
Producer
Who is likely to have better generic solution information?
User
Producer
When information is sticky, innovators tend to ..."
hire custom manufacturers
rely on information they already have
organize into innovation communities
avoid low cost innovation niches
What is the fundamental difference between user innovators and producer innovators?
User innovators benefit directly from their innovations
User innovators have the option of diffusing peer-to-peer
Both of the above
None of the above
When Eric von Hippel speaks of the concept of “low-cost innovation niche,” he refers to:
the advantage of producing low cost products for a general market
users generally producing low-cost products to address small needs
producers being able to produce products at a lower cost than producers due to economies of scale
niches being created from user and producer collaboration, which result in better, lower-cost products
none of the above
Users typically expect a solution they have purchased to work correctly and reliably “right out of the box”. In effect, a sharp line is drawn between product development at the manufacturer’s site and routine, trouble-free usage at the purchaser’s site. When the user builds a product for itself, however, both the development and the use functions are in the same organization and may explicitly be overlapped. Repeated tests and repeated repairs and improvements during early use are then more likely to be understood and tolerated as an acceptable part of the development process.
What is the implication of this paragraph?
User innovators make better products
Users impose inordinate expectations on producers
Producer innovators make better products
User and producer product development processes differ
