In Search of Disruptive Ideas
The InsideScienceOnline website noted that the key challenge for data science in open innovation web systems is to find best ideas among thousands of community submissions. To date, this has been done with metrics reflecting enterprise needs or community preferences. This article proposes to look in a different direction: inspired by theoretical studies on disruptive innovation, we frame the problem of valuable ideas as those rarely taken up by masses or organisations yet having potential to change industries. Our aim is to find technological means for automatic detection of such innovations to aid decision making.
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