How Seeing Ideas of Others Can Harm Creativity in Open Innovation
The American Marketing Association posted an article which maintained that open innovation contests which involve seeing numerous competitive ideas of others harms, rather than stimulates, creative performance. Others’ competitive prior ideas interfere with idea generation, as new ideas need to be differentiated from the preceding ones to be original.
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Open Innovation in Sports Management
The Emerald Insight website reported that unlike other museums, the FIFA Museum took an open innovation approach in developing their concept, especially for those parts that deal with visitor interactions. With the goal of being not only a football museum, but also an attractive and leading event location
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GSA Seeks Support for Challenge Sites
The Nextgov website reported that the Technology Transformation Service—the IT-focused arm of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service issued a request for quotes searching for program management support for GSA’s Open Innovation Program, which manages two public-focused
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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,
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From Collaborative Community to Competitive Market
The Wiley Online Library posted an article by Henry Chesbrough and Thomas Kohler which noted that crowdsourcing presents new opportunities to generate social innovation. However, many crowdsourcing social innovation initiatives struggle with turning their promising projects into sustaining platforms.
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The Dynamics of Openness and the Role of User Communities
The IEEE Journal posted an article which noted that to remain competitive, it is critical for firms to integrate external sources of knowledge. However, finding the right degree of openness is challenging, especially in complex open innovation ecosystems. This paper investigates the role of openness
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Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems
The Emerald Insight website posted an abstract of an article which noted that platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing
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7 Principles of Complete Co-creation
The YourStory website noted that traditional top-down business models based on knowledge dominance and mass-market approaches are under pressure from more open, collaborative models that directly and continuously involve customers. In a fast-moving global economy where customers are more digitally connected,
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Open Minds for Open Innovation
The PMLive website noted that many large, successful organizations such as Apple and NASA are already embracing open innovation to stay at the top of their game. In healthcare, programs like 23andMe and PatientsLikeMe have demonstrated that this is a tangible tactic, despite the traditional need for
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Federal Innovation Guidance Fails on Open Innovation
The Federal Times website reported that government-wide guidance for implementing open innovation strategies is particularly inefficient when addressing agency challenges in open data collaboration and fostering ideation and open dialogues, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability
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