Freyja's von Hippel:E [1 article]

Abstract

The unit cost of producing manufactured goods has been shown to decline significantly as more are produced. It has been argued that ‘learning by doing’ is at the root of this phenomenon, but the modes of learning actually involved have not been studied in detail. In this paper we attempt to provide a better understanding of the learning behaviors involved in learning by doing via a study of 27 problems that affected two novel process machines in their first years of ...