Farmer Innovation - Democratizing Innovation?

Farmer Innovation Democratizing Innovation?

Lead Users Ahead of majority of users w/r/t market trends Expect to signiﬁcantly beneﬁt from their innovation

Farmer Innovators Previous exposure to other industries Strong personalities Older Full-time farmers Male (?)

Why User Innovation? Unmet needs due to: Mass market homogeneity Market failures

Why Farmer Innovation? Food security For sale Increase or maintain yield / soil fertility Prevent / cure animal diseases

Dissemination User-innovators share freely Role for commercialization? Role for government?

Policy Implications Intellectual property standing in the way Education and community building Developing country advantage or irrelevance?

Credits Biking picture: CC BY-NC-ND (http://bit.ly/9s9hIn) von Hippel, E. (2005). Democratizing Innovation Lüthje, C., Herstatt, C., & von Hippel, E. (2005). User-innovators and "local" information: The case of mountain biking. Research Policy, 34(6), 951-965. doi: 10.1016/j.respol.2005.05.005 von Hippel, E., & Jin, C. (2009). The major shift towards user-centered innovation: Implications for China’s innovation policymaking. Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China, 1(1), 16-27 . von Hippel, E. (1986). Lead Users: A Source of Novel Product Concepts. Management Science, 32(7), 791-805 von Hippel, E. (2007). Horizontal innovation net works--by and for users. Industrial and Corporate Change. doi: 10.1093/icc/dtm005 Braun, Viktor, and Cornelius Herstatt. "Barriers to User-Innovation: The Paradigm of "Permission to Innovate"" ICMIT (2006). Print. Grunert, Klaus G et al. "User-oriented innovation in the food sector: relevant streams of research and an agenda for future work." Trends in Food Science and Technology 19 (2008). Print.

Questions to Consider What are the shortcomings of von Hippel’s theory when applied to farmer innovation? How can farmer innovations be scaled up or more easily replicated? How can policy adapted to promote user innovation on farms?

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