Need another good reason to have a business blog? Because “von Hippel says companies are finding that more and more innovation is coming not from in-house developers, but from products users who do their own re-engineering.

“People are innovating for themselves,” he said. “That’s what has happened and economists are really puzzled about it because economists are fosuced on this IP-based system.”

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