Commenting for new ideas: insights from an open innovation platform

Adamczyk, Sabrina; Bullinger, Angelika C.; Möslein, Kathrin M.

doi:10.1504/ijtip.2011.044612

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“…These studies, however, mainly focus on employees' diversity in ideation networks in the context of offline, collocated R&D settings, where employees interact face‐to‐face to jointly refine ideas (Baer, ; Kijkuit and van den Ende, ; Simon and Tellier, ). Web‐enabled ideation systems represent an additional channel for employees across diverse boundaries to interact and add knowledge to others' ideas through their comments (Adamczyk et al, ). Hence, the present study seeks to extend current innovation research with an examination of contributors' diversity and its influence on ideation outcomes in the context of web‐enabled ideation systems.…”

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“…As such, community functionalities enable organizations to gather, at a greater scale, collective feedback on generated ideas from a wider and diverse crowd of participants (Adamczyk, Bullinger, and Moeslein, ; Haller et al, ). On the one hand, it is argued that such functionalities act as conduits of diverse knowledge (Adamczyk et al, ). Various studies highlight that employees across functional and geographical boundaries can voluntarily share their diverse knowledge domains and expertise to help further refine and extend others' ideas (Deichmann and van den Ende, ).…”

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Idea Selection in Web‐Enabled Ideation Systems

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2018

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Organizations increasingly implement web-enabled ideation systems to involve the diverse crowd of distributed employees in ideation. While recent studies have started to investigate which types of data generated in these systems can support managers in their selection decisions, less attention has been placed on the crowd of contributors and the idea itself. Building on team diversity and information processing literatures, this study extends current research by examining how contributors' knowledge diversity, the framing of their feedback (positive and negative), and the degree of idea elaboration influence selection decisions in web-enabled ideation systems. Understanding the role of contributors is arguably important considering that the increasing integration of community functionalities enables employees to participate not only by generating ideas, but also by offering different types of knowledge and feedback to others' ideas, thus giving rise to new forms of online participation. At the same time, individuals' abilities and efforts invested in the formulation of ideas are claimed to influence how managers evaluate them, an aspect that has received limited attention in these online settings. This study is based on a rich and extensive data set of 726 ideas and 2925 comments submitted by employees to an online ideation platform of a large European firm over the course of 16 months. The findings reveal that different forms of contributors' diversity and the framing of their feedback have differential effects on idea selection. Ideas attracting contributors from different functional domains are more likely to be selected by managers, while geographic diversity does not have a significant effect on selection. Moreover, feedback that is negatively framed tends to decrease the selection chances of an idea. Finally, ideas with an optimal degree of elaboration are more likely to be selected by managers for funding. Implications for both innovation management research and practitioners are discussed. Practitioner PointsThis study sheds lights on which data generated in web-enabled ideation systems can act as filtering heuristics for managers for supporting their selection decisions.Managers should not only attract a large crowd of contributors, but also consider the types of participants to engage in complementing ideas to enable access to diverse knowledge domains and expertise.The study points to the importance of considering the framing of feedback at the collective level. Feedback that is negatively framed may direct managers' attention toward critiques and limitations of an idea, reducing its likelihood of selection.Managers should pay attention to the degree of elaboration of ideas. Tools may be provided in the platform to improve the description of ideas, making sure that enough details are provided for ideas to be understood while not becoming too redundant.

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Idea Selection in Web‐Enabled Ideation Systems

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2018

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“…Another category of hackathons is civic or socially oriented hackathons that aim to improve public services for citizens. Civic hackathons are time-limited events where workers from the public sector and companies, as well as citizens, collaborate in order to develop software applications that improve citizens' life [26,30,31].…”

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Beyond Open Data Hackathons: Exploring Digital Innovation Success

Kitsios

Kamariotou

2019

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Previous researchers have examined the motivations of developers to participate in hackathons events and the challenges of open data hackathons, but limited studies have focused on the preparation and evaluation of these contests. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to examine factors that lead to the effective implementation and success of open data hackathons and innovation contests. Six case studies of open data hackathons and innovation contests held between 2014 and 2018 in Thessaloniki were studied in order to identify the factors leading to the success of hackathon contests using criteria from the existing literature. The results show that the most significant factors were clear problem definition, mentors’ participation to the contest, level of support to participants by mentors in order to launch their applications to the market, jury members’ knowledge and experience, the entry requirements of the competition, and the participation of companies, data providers, and academics. Furthermore, organizers should take team members’ competences and skills, as well as the support of post-launch activities for applications, into consideration. This paper can be of interest to organizers of hackathon events because they could be knowledgeable about the factors that should take into consideration for the successful implementation of these events.

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“…Ideators need to indicate an openness for reciprocity regarding peer interaction and that they value feedback. Comments on feedback received by others can trigger a discussion with other participants and community managers (Adamczyk et al, 2011). These efforts often result in more answers that, in turn, lead to an increase in the number of comments.…”

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