Flow this author, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and his co-authors. He makes his work free to download.

 Although, he mainly focuses on open innovation and open business model, you will find that  these two terminologies  have many common aspects with  distributed innovation.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wim_Vanhaverbeke

Check this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278028306_Biofuel_Production_Utilizing_Stakeholders%27_Perspectives

It may help you.

Thanks.

Article Biofuel Production: Utilizing Stakeholders' Perspectives

The folowing would be a good start:

http://www.calt.insead.fr/papers/communities-creation.pdf

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.195.1197&rep=rep1&type=pdf

http://www.bic-innovation.com/static/bic/knowledge_base/documents/OI8.pdf

Check this article on innovation in animation 

Article Social and Spatial Structures of Innovation in the Irish Ani...

Hi Mr Khalid,

Distributed innovation  while probably  a fashionable term, can be seen in many ways:  open innovation, collaborative innovation, user-driven innovation, since the  essential underlying idea is to  incorporate, seek, find ideas or components from outside the organization. Today there are  very few products that do not rely on ideas/concepts/ approaches/parts from external sources.

Users or potential customers can be  and are good sources of ideas; how can we solve a problem for ourselves if they do  not exist, if we do not know of them? If we did come up with something, critics can then talk of " a solution in search of, or one  looking  for a problem".  Useful innovations solve problems that  people and firms have. I was involved in creating several innovations, one of which was an innovation that was a  departure from the then available product. The idea came about because of the need from marketing which  had received comments from users of the particular product. We used the idea to brain-storm and came up with  a product which up to the time of my leaving that firm had sold more than 2.5m units worldwide. I  had some ideas, my colleagues had  a few  others and the concept came from unknown users. We had to transform the  unknown users’ idea and that meant exploring various technologies we had in-house and externally. That was distributed innovation  at work, or at least the beginnings of distributed or collaborative, or user-driven innovation. It could also be called open innovation, I would say.

I  therefore repeat here what Shakespeare had observed  “a rose by any name would still smell just as sweet…” I now refer you to the paper by West & Bogers, viz.,  West J & Bogers M, 2003 :Leveraging external sources of innovation: A review of research on open innovation Journal of Product Innovation Management 31 (4), 814-831. You might also want to explore articles on open innovation, collaborative innovation, user-driven innovation, as well

To close, it might be worth pointing out that the discussions here at Research Gate in effect constitutes  or is a reflection of the route to distributed innovation by some perceptive, absorptive minds – not everyone, I might add. Think of  the open source software – Linux has become what it is today because of the contributions of hundreds of minds distributed around the world and collaborating willingly.  I can give more examples…

"Distributed Innovation" had been the subject of a Workshop at Stanford University on March 27-28, 2008. The underlying premise being that ICT enables new ways to connect individuals across a variety of boundaries, which results in the creation of new knowledge, i.e. distributed innovation.  The authors of the papers presented there have all been developing research in related areas, such as: "open innovation", "open source", "peer production", and so on (Disclosure: I had a paper in that conference, and co-organized related symposia at the Academy of Management, http://drdrei.com/conferences/).  I know many of the authors have been developing research in "distributed innovation" since then.

Here the list of papers from 2008, followed by the names of their authors (cf. DRUID/SCANCOR program):

• Women’s Professional Identity Formation in the Free/Open Source Software Community by Anca Met, ESSEC Business School, and Otilia Obodaru, INSEAD.
• From the Periphery to the Core : Explaining Progression without Hierarchy by Linus Dahlander, Imperial College-London, and Siobhan O’Mahony, University of California-Davis.
• Microdistributed” innovation projects by Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School, and Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management.
• User Innovation beyond Market Barriers: The case of Machinima by Georg von Krogh, Stefan Haefliger, and Peter Jaeger, ETH Zurich.
• Measuring “Invisible” User Innovation by Jeroen de Jong and Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management.
• Towards Open Source Nano: Arsenic Removal and Alternative Models of Technology Transfer by Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta; Christopher Kelty, Cafer T. Yavuz, and Vicki L. Colvin, Rice University.
• Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller “Footprint” Strategy by Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Kim B. Clark, Harvard Business School.
• Beyond Product Architecture: Addressing the challenges of complex product development by Markus C. Becker, University of Southern Denmark, and Francesco Zirpoli, University of Salerno.
• Open source corporate strategy: Managing firm-sponsored e-collective work by J. Andrei Villarroel, and Christopher L. Tucci, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
• Self-organized walks on the technology landscape: How the Free/Open Source Software community explores and exploits by Francesco Rullani, Copenhagen Business School.
• Appropriation versus exclusion – the emergence of openness as a dimension of competition by Joachim Henkel, and Simone Käs, Technische University München.
• Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak , and Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School.
• Does Openness Really change Participation in Distributed Innovation? An experiment in research mice by Fiona Murray, MIT; Philippe Aghion, Harvard University; and Scott Stern Northwestern University.
• Organizing Wikipedia: Embedded Contributions and Order by Patty Sakunkoo, Stanford University.
• The motivational arc of massive virtual collaboration by Kevin Crowston, and Isabelle Fagnot, Syracuse University.
• Motivation and Coordination in Libre Software Development: A Stygmergic Simulation Perspective on Large Community-Mode Projects by Jean-Michel Dalle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie & IMRI Dauphine, and Paul A. David, Stanford University & Oxford Internet Institute.

http://drdrei.com/conferences/

Thanks to all

Mr.Khalid

Perhaps you could also refer to the following links: 

1.http://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/dotcom/insights%2520and%2520pubs/mgi/research/technology%2520and%2520innovati

 2.http://www2.druid.dk/conferences/viewpaper.php%3Fid%3D6012%26cf%3D32

 3.http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2011/03/5-recommendations-for-successfully-implementing-distributed-innovation-and-s

4.https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation

 5.https://hbr.org/2008/11/teaming-up-to-crack-innovation-and-enterprise-integration

Good luck.

Phil Barbonis has suggested that distributed innovation can be seen as similar to open innovation, collaborative innovation, user-driven innovation. The Innovation Journal (www.innovation.cc) has articles on these topics.