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Looking back from 2014, it is of course obvious that the main ingredient, guaranteeing autonomy, has been the leitmotiv in my research since 1993. When finding the connecting theme, it all looks so simple…... My motivation to create this website? My rationale is very straightforward: there is no such website yet. By creating a website a topic gains interactivity and has greater chance of becoming mature. I could have waited with sharing about user-centered innovation and started for example writing a book. That takes quite some time… With a website it becomes possible for professionals to learn, discuss and apply concepts from user-centered innovation. Sharing knowledge is of benefit to us all; as Isaac Newton stated: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" (1676), see here on Wikipedia... True user-centered innovation takes as the starting point that all participants ought to have autonomy. Humans have autonomy: They can decide on their own how to..

Also known as: user-centered innovation