Crowds are not inherently wise It has been over a decade since it became popular to involve
large groups of people beyond corporate boundaries in the creation of ideas for products or …

Idea crowdsourcing has become a hype term associated with unrealistic expectations for
innovation and unclear understanding of its requirements and challenges. This paper …

Crowdsourcing is an overarching term that denotes a number of ways to use the web as
means to enlist a large number of individuals to perform a particular task. The tasks can …

Crowdsourcing—asking an undefined group of external contributors to work on tasks—
allows organizations to tap into the expertise of people around the world. Crowdsourcing is …

Crowdsourcing is a paradigm which enables and harnesses the power and wisdom of a
usually large, diverse crowd in innovation, problem solving and knowledge acquisition. The …

Crowdsourcing for innovation contests represents a promising mechanism to access and
integrate external ideas. Among various crowdsourcing types, online, team-based contest is …

Crowdsourcing new products involves an open call for creative ideas. To select among
submissions, crowdsourcing portals ask the community (the “crowd”) to voice its opinion …

Crowdsourcing initiatives, especially the format of idea and research contest have provided
companies with unique and inventive opportunities to capitalize on users' innovative …

Crowdsourcing campaigns in general and online idea contests in particular have reached
popularity in practice and research. Based on the open innovation paradigm, idea …

Many organizations use crowdsourcing for problem solving, innovation, and consultation. In
open innovation and community crowdsourcing initiatives the volume of generated ideas …