Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Innovation through Online Idea Competitions

Schweitzer, Fiona; Buchinger, Walter; Gassmann, Oliver; Obrist, Marianna

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“…Their results show that crowdsourcing provides an opportunity of reaching a higher number of participants and provides results as valuable as those provided by traditional methods, at half the cost and collecting five times more data. Schweitzer et al [62] showed that the number of ideas was four times higher in crowdsourcing in comparison with focus groups and the cost 15 % cheaper. Data from the Peer-to-Patent crowdsourcing initiative, 2 launched by the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office, show that an open network of reviewers are willing to volunteer time and improve the quality of information available to patent examiners, and that these citizen reviewers are capable of producing information relevant to the patent examination process, which has inspired patent offices worldwide [see 30].…”

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“…They offer chances for transparency and accountability, real-time information updates, citizen engagement and coproduction [9,39,44,48]. Moreover, the Internet's viral communication mechanisms mean that an open online competition has the potential to reach an unlimited number of possible idea givers at a comparatively low cost, allowing a very large number of ideas to be obtained swiftly and cost-efficiently [62]. However, previous research has shown that the use of the Internet in the public sector for external purposes has been mainly directed at the provision of public services and information to citizens and other stakeholders, neglecting the citizen participation dimension [12,16,18,40,46,49,69,71].…”

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“…The quality and quantity of ideas obtained depend on the degree to which the initiative manages to attract creative submitters with relevant knowledge. It is therefore essential to understand how the crowd, or a specific group of submitters, can best be motivated to participate [15,62]. This paper analyzes data from two similar crowdsourcing experiences at local government level in Spain to provide an initial assessment of its role as a tool to take advantage of citizen knowledge to find solutions to municipal problems.…”

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“Crowdsourcing” as a tool for e-participation: two experiences regarding CO2 emissions at municipal level

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Public administrations need to find innovative approaches to solving changing problems and to fulfilling their duties. Crowdsourcing in local governments could be defined as the use of new technologies in order to take advantage of citizen knowledge to find solutions to municipal problems. This paper analyzes two experiences of crowdsourcing at local level, and the opinions of the citizens and managers involved, to provide an initial assessment of its effectiveness and suggest avenues for improvement. Engaging citizens in e-participation initiatives is a challenge but, for public sector crowdsourcing initiatives, intrinsic motivation and intangible rewards seem to be enough to motivate participants. Results show that managers find citizens' propositions viable, but publishing the final results and indicating how the ideas selected will be further developed are pending tasks. Caution is needed as failure to deliver the benefits deemed essential by citizens can make them even more reluctant to engage.

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Section: Crowdsourcing: Models and Impact Assessmentmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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“…In mediated crowdsourced project work, fi eld research also must entail a constructive way to screen and evaluate expertise that would have to depart from existing techniques such as competitions (Howe, 2008 ;Lampel, Jha, & Bhalla, 2012 ;Villarroel, Taylor, & Tucci, 2013 ), which are win-lose propositions and incompatible with the objectives I have laid out. Face-to-face focus groups may be at least one viable alternative (Schweitzer, Buchinger, Gassmann, & Obrist, 2012 ). Admittedly, the task is huge, encompassing fi eld research , continual classifi cation of seeker problems in connection with appro-22 Although formal education often is used as a proxy measure for skill, this measure misses the variety of avenues by which people develop skills and knowledges.…”

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Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for Twenty-first Century Knowledge Networks

Ettlinger

2017

Knowledge and Space

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Taking stock of changing realities, in this chapter I take note of an emergent production system around the turn of the twenty-fi rst century that pivots on new approaches to innovation and, relatedly, on open networks to access dispersed knowledges. At the same time, it is sensible to recognize pressing social problems associated with dramatically increasing socioeconomic polarization and precarious livelihoods worldwide, as well as persistent problems of segregation that inform the nature of exclusions. Although the new system of production is lucrative for fi rms, its contribution to social problems has been negative at best because new networking strategies remain exclusive, while being highly exploitative in new ways. At this critical juncture in the global economy, my aim in this chapter is to bring a sociopolitical agenda to new economic realities that would service economic agents and goals while developing a means to extend living-wage and stable work in knowledge networks to diverse people, and in the process dissolve frictions of difference through collaborative work relations. Based on a critical synthesis of information drawn from case studies across wide-ranging literatures ( economic geography and sociology; social theory; and business, management, and information science), I conceptualize a strategy for making use of new networking strategies that is inclusive and shaped by social goals .The ensuing argument begins with conceptualizing a reversal of the usual instrumentality of the social for the economic. I contextualize the agenda in terms of the above-stated critical juncture in the global economy, namely new types of economic knowledge networks that reap enormous rewards for corporations without, however, attention to dire and worsening social needs and problems. I conclude this

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“…This fact suggests that the literature moved toward a specialized research agenda, not only discussing FFE models, but increasing knowledge about the FFE phases. Additionally, the ideation and screening phases have gained great attention in the last years (SCHWEITZER et al, 2012;SOUKHOROUKOVA et al, 2012).…”

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A bibliometric analysis of the fuzzy front-end of innovation using the HistCite software

Oliveira¹,

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2014

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Abstract:The number of academic papers addressing the fuzzy front-end (FFE) of innovation has increased over the last years, confirming the importance of this research field. This paper presents the outcomes of a bibliometric analysis of the literature related to FFE that was published between 1985 and 2013. The HistCite software was the tool used to implement the analysis. The results show the number of papers published per year, the most important journals, and the most cited papers. Most of the studies reviewed in this article applied empirical research methods, and the number of research topics have increased in this period. This study provides a preliminary bibliometric and thematic analysis of the FFE literature, identifying research perspectives.

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Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Innovation through Online Idea Competitions

Cited by 77 publications

References 9 publications

“Crowdsourcing” as a tool for e-participation: two experiences regarding CO2 emissions at municipal level

“Crowdsourcing” as a tool for e-participation: two experiences regarding CO2 emissions at municipal level

Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for Twenty-first Century Knowledge Networks

A bibliometric analysis of the fuzzy front-end of innovation using the HistCite software

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