Innovation contests as a means to realize innovative product or service solutions are
growing in popularity among practitioners and researchers. An increasing number of …

The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

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

This study aims to address two research gaps in prior studies on knowledge sharing in
virtual communities (VCs). First, prior studies have focused on knowledge sharing VCs with …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging and promising approach which involves delegating a variety
of tasks to an unknown workforce-the crowd. Crowdsourcing has been applied quite …

Customer co-creation denotes an active, creative and social collaboration process between
producers (retailers) and customers (users), facilitated by the company. Customers become …

Purpose–The study aims to use netnography to investigate the role of customers'
contributions in social networks for NSD purposes. Design/methodology/approach–The …

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

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how collaborative entrepreneurial learning
(EL) processes between entrepreneurs and university students can enhance the …

Recent literature on open innovation suggests that firms can improve their performance by
“opening” their business models, in other words, they can reduce their R&D costs by …