Open innovation research shows that idea competitions are a promising approach for
integrating customers and that most innovations are a result of intensive collaboration …

Ideas competitions appear to be a promising tool for crowdsourcing and open innovation
processes, especially for business-to-business software companies. Active participation of …

Research has shown that many innovations originate not in the manufacturer but the user
domain. Internet‐based toolkits for idea competitions (TIC) are a novel way for …

'Crowdsourcing'is currently one of the most discussed key words within the open innovation
community. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the …

Social media technologies that enable interactive feedback during idea generation can
complement existing modes of knowledge exchange in innovation management. Especially …

This study investigates user behaviours in online innovation communities which are enabled
by digital technologies, to obtain an understanding of the relationship between user's social …

Organizations increasingly implement web‐enabled ideation systems to involve the diverse
crowd of distributed employees in ideation. While recent studies have started to investigate …

Abstract Idea Competitions (ICs) are becoming a popular mechanism chosen by firms to
perform Open Innovation. They are a way to engage with external sources of knowledge …

2,232, 4,298, 26,617, 8,582... these are key figures of a recent IT-based innovation contest
conducted by Bombardier (http://yourail-design. bombardier. com). This initiative aimed at …

This article introduces 'virtual design competitions' as a new means of opening up the
innovation process and enriching the companies,'design‐ideas' by utilizing the creativity of a …