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		<title>Many innovations come from Lead Users</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaap Linssen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While writing my previous post &#8216;Lead users, geeks, and freaks&#8217; I started to realize that actually many innovations originate from what I defined as &#8216;lead users,&#8217; people that solve a big problem for themselves. Here are a few: The Internet became big after HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee because he needed another way to &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Lead users, Geeks, and Freaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jaap Linssen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.innovationfactory.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/geek2-167x300.jpg" alt="geek2" width="100" class="alignleft" /><br />
When most people say 'lead user' they are actually talking about very early adopters; geeks and freaks. Lead users have had a very big problem and have (partly) solved it. If you are able to find people that have (solved) big problems in you domain you can learn how you can design products that solve real problems for people.]]></description>
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		<title>Open Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ebbe Nieuweboer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Innovation propagates sharing and collaboration with external parties. The architect of the term Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough, describes the following principles as being at the foundation of Open Innovation Not all smart people work in-house – need to tap into external knowledge External R&#38;D can generate significant value to us Research does not need &#8230;]]></description>
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