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Providing practical and methodological guidance alongside valuable recommendations, the Handbook on Post-Schumpeterian Innovations presents a new framework for designing, developing and evaluating non-producer, especially user innovation. Featuring a comprehensive worldwide view, chapters emphasise the role of users to innovation, showcasing key case studies and insights. Analysing significant theoretical and empirical developments in the field of post-Schumpeterian innovations, the Handbook utilises functional mechanisms, participant behaviours, adoption and reuse analysis to assess user innovation. Going beyond traditional producer-driven frameworks, the contributing authors use non-producer innovation paradigms as a crucial resource to illustrate the increasing importance of innovation models which employ extensive collaborative work and integrate diverse viewpoints and expertise. This Handbook is an essential resource for innovation scholars and graduate students. The case studies also provide a useful guide for policymakers and researchers in business, evolutionary economics and entrepreneurship.