An important author on the subject of innovation in general and lead user innovation in particular.

Author of, among others,
* SourcesOfInnovation
* Democratising Innovation, a paper summarizing very important findings about innovation.

In the paper, von Hippel refers to the "two defining characteristics of a lead user".

His website is at http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/index.html
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