Generating ideas for new products used to be the exclusive domain of marketers, engineers,
and/or designers. Users have only recently been recognized as an alternative source of …

Given a set of ideas collected from crowds with regard to an open-ended question, how can
we organize and prioritize them in order to determine the preferred ones based on …

Information technology (IT) has created new patterns of digitally-mediated collaboration that
allow open sourcing of ideas for new products and services. These novel sociotechnical …

Crowdsourcing platforms connect companies with heterogeneous users to create innovation
ecosystems. However, platforms often have difficulty keeping users active. User …

As a result of the widespread adoption of idea suggestion software platforms, companies
have increasingly become enabled to involve crowds in the creative process to gather ideas …

We investigate how the propensity to trust, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation drive
the intentions of individuals to share knowledge in idea crowdsourcing. Building on …

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

Open idea evaluation is based on the vision of leveraging the crowd's wisdom for screening
and evaluation of early stage innovations. However, when being confronted with the task to …

In crowdsourcing ideation websites, companies can easily collect large amount of ideas.
Screening through such volume of ideas is very costly and challenging, necessitating …

Nowadays, governments encourage people to be an entrepreneur and start their
businesses. Because small and medium enterprises play a critical role in economic growth …