It is named for von Hippel and its enclosure bears his name in Braille.
Eric von Hippel (born 1941), an American economist, son of Arthur R. von Hippel
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The term private-collective model of innovation was coined by Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh in their 2003 publication in Organization Science.