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 …

When evaluating ideas, raters can quickly experience cognitive overload that might result in
poor selection performance. Contest managers have an interest in designing idea …

Innovation contests offer organizations the opportunity to source innovative ideas to achieve
competitive advantage. However, raters cannot easily converge on the most promising ideas …

Innovation contests often result in several hundred ideas generated. Raters have to process
this huge amount of ideas that consist of attributes like idea descriptions and various types of …

Identifying the best ideas from the vast volumes generated by open innovation engagements
is costly and often time-consuming. One approach is to engage crowds in filtering the ideas …

1 Problemstellung Die digitale und kreative Wirtschaft im Landkreis Uelzen im Allgemeinen,
die Unterstützung der Existenzgründung im Speziellen, soll durch die Entwicklung einer …

Companies increasingly engage the crowd in the evaluation of a large pool of ideas to sift
out the better ones among them. The crowd, however, seems to be better at eliminating the …

In idea selection, raters can attend and rely on information from multiple sources to
determine which ideas are worthy for further consideration. Since that information can …

Given the importance of scalable and real-time idea evaluation for commercial success and
survival, organizations increasingly draw on the principle of the wisdom of crowds. This …

Innovations are of central importance to the success of companies or, as Baumol (2002, p. 1)
argues,(…)“innovative activity becomes a mandatory, a life-and-death matter for a …