Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends

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Lec #	Topics	Key dates
1	Introduction and Overview
2	Many Users Innovate: Maybe Even You!
3	Innovate or Buy? Each User has a Low-cost Innovation Niche
4	Dr. Nat Sims, Medical User-Innovator
5	How Open Source Software Works
6	User Innovation Communities	If you want mid-course feedback on a paper, please turn in your first 7-page paper today.
7	Why Users Often Freely Reveal Their Innovations
8	How Can Manufacturers Make Money if Users are the Innovators?
9	Finding Lead User Innovations and Giving Customers Toolkits
10	How Manufacturers Can Benefit from Distributed Innovation: The Story of InnoCentive
11	Design and Manufacture of “Mass Customized” Products
12	Resistance to Innovation is the Norm: Things will Change - But Slowly, If Incumbents have a Choice!	Both 7-page papers due today unless an extension has been given.