The Relationship Between Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing
The Researchgate website posted an article which noted that there are two important differences between open innovation and crowdsourcing. First, the knowledge inflows/outflows of open innovation often take place between parties with ex ante contracts or other commitments. For example, technology alliances, strategic alliances, licensing agreements, venture capital investments, joint ventures, and other forms of “teaming up.” A defining property of crowdsourcing is the absence of these contracts/commitments. Second, crowdsourcing can be internal to an organization but open innovation has not been viewed as such. By definition, open innovation is about knowledge inflows into and outflows from a focal organization, and therefore open innovation scholars do not see open innovation as an internal phenomenon.
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