# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-von-hippel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:44.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-von-hippel"
name: "Eric von Hippel"
slug: "eric-von-hippel"
description: "Eric von Hippel is an American economist and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. He is best known for his work in developing the concept of user innovation – that end-users, rather than manufacturers, are responsible for a large amount of innovation. In 1986 he coined the term lead user to describe this phenomenon."
tagline: "American economist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             4.130174682938502
  historical:           7.685206666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump