Influential O/U/CI research

Here’s some quick citation counts of O/U/CI research as reported by Google Scholar. (For a discussion of some of these works, see my Nov. 2008 recommended O/U/CI bibliography).

Open innovation:

• Chesbrough, Open Innovation (2003): 1340
• Chesbrough, Vanhaverbeke and West, Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (2006): 615
• Chesbrough, “The era of open innovation,” Sloan Management Review (2003): 362

Other relevant work by Henry Chesbrough:

• Chesbrough and Rosenbloom, “The role of the business model in capturing value from innovation…” Industrial and Corporate Change (2002): 454
• Chesbrough, Open Business Models (2006): 203

User innovation:

• von Hippel, “Innovation by user communities,” Sloan Management Review (2001): 324
• Morrison, Roberts and von Hippel, “Determinants of user innovation and innovation sharing…” Management Science (2000): 168

Lead users:

• von Hippel, “Lead users: A source of novel product concepts,” Management Science (1986): 1193

Other relevant work by Eric von Hippel:

• von Hippel, The Sources of Innovation (1988): 3546
• von Hippel, “Sticky Information,” Management Science (1994): 1518
• von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (2005): 1142

Collective invention:

• Allen, “Collective invention,” JEBO (1983): 499
• Nuvolari, “Collective invention…Cornish pumping engine,” CJE (2004): 89

Cumulative innovation:

• Chang, “Patent scope, antitrust policy, and cumulative innovation,” Rand (1995): 197

Relevant work by Suzanne Scotchmer:

• Scotchmer, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,” JEP (1991): 671
• Scotchmer, Innovation and Incentives (2004): 393
• Green and Scotchmer, “On the division of profit in sequential innovation,” Rand (1995): 383