Organizations use innovation contests to enable crowdsourcing for open innovation. While
the crowd is able to generate large amounts of ideas in such contests, the challenge shifts to …

Designing optimal contests is crucial to the success of online crowdsourcing markets that
seek to attract a diverse crowd of high quality participants. While there has been some …

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

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

While crowdsourcing idea contests have the potential to harness widely distributed
knowledge, the quantity of ideas and the complexity involved in idea assessment create a …

The creative potential from innovative contributions of the crowd constitutes some critical
challenges. The quantity of contributions and the resource demands to identify valuable …

The chapter provides an overview of crowdsourcing practices for the future and introduces
the “MASSive Ideation” approach as one possible form of community-based innovation. In …

Purpose Virtual crowdsourcing initiatives, and in particular crowdsourcing competitions,
have become a promising means of harnessing users' creativity to help corporate …

ABSTRACT A crowdsourcing contest is the process of inviting the general public or a
targeted group of individuals to submit their ideas or solutions to a specific problem or …

Crowdsourcing has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy to enhance the efficiency
of a firm's innovation process. In this paper, we focus on tournament-based crowdsourcing …