"Predicting the Source of Commercially Valuable User Innovation Via 'Lead Users'."

von Hippel, Eric. In Advances in Telecommunications Management, edited by A. Gupta and M. Saghafi, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1990.

"Task Partitioning: An Innovation Process Variable."

von Hippel, Eric. Research Policy Vol. 19, No. 5 (1990): 407-418.

"New Product Ideas from 'Lead Users'."

von Hippel, Eric. Research Management Vol. 32, No. 3 (1989): 24-27.

The Sources of Innovation.

von Hippel, Eric. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. PDF.

"Lead User Analysis For the Development of New Industrial Products."

Urban, Glen and Eric von Hippel. Management Science Vol. 34, No. 5 (1988): 569-582.

"Cooperation Between Rivals: Informal Know-How Trading."

von Hippel, Eric. Research Policy Vol. 16, No. 6 (1987): 291-302.