This part of the AGB2009 series (see the presentation)
AGB2009: technological disintermediation
BACKGROUND
Technology and tecnological innovation are not anymore what they used to be.
ABSTRACT
Most of the publications on the “new” or “soft” economy talk only about the positive side-effects of this “crowdsourcing” of innovation, but..
In the past, user-generated innovations required skills, or money, or both, e.g. in “tuning” the engine of you car.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
For this article, not really a bibliography, but a “mini-library”.