I was invited onto NPR in Boston this week for a segment on user innovation alongside Eric von Hippel (my advisor at MIT) and Carliss Baldwin from Harvard Business School.
I talked about innovation that has happened on the CHDK platform — a cool firmware hack for Canon cameras example I use in some of my teaching — plus a little bit about free software, the democratization of development and design tools, and a little bit about user communities that LEGO has cultivated.
I would have liked the conversation and terminology to do more to emphasize user freedom and free software, but I’m otherwise pretty happy with the result. The segment will be aired again on NPR in Boston this weekend and is available on the WGBH website.