
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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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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