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Research Program

The re­se­arch focus of the In­sti­tu­te is Open and User In­no­va­ti­on in ge­ne­ral and re­cent­ly col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve com­mu­nities as well as crowd­sour­cing in par­ti­cu­lar.

OI

Open and User In­no­va­ti­on - Ge­ne­ral

Even though open in­no­va­ti­on as coined by Henry Ches­brough and user in­no­va­ti­on as coined by Eric von Hip­pel dif­fer in cer­tain as­sump­ti­ons and re­se­arch foci, both con­cepts share the un­der­stan­ding that there is a large amount of crea­ti­vi­ty out­si­de the bounda­ries of focal firms that the lat­ter can le­ver­age by ap­p­ly­ing spe­ci­fic me­thods and that often users and pro­du­cers are com­ple­ments in the crea­ti­on of in­no­va­ti­on. In this re­spect, the in­sti­tu­te has for examp­le en­ga­ged in re­se­arch about lead users, the tech­no­lo­gi­cal im­pact of in­de­pen­dent ver­sus cor­po­ra­te in­ven­tors, or or­ga­niza­ti­on design-​ and busi­ness model aspects of open and user in­no­va­ti­on.

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Collaborative Communities

On­line Com­mu­nities

On­line user com­mu­nities are internet-​based plat­forms for com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on and exchan­ge among in­di­vi­du­als and/or or­ga­niza­ti­ons in­te­rested in a given pro­duct or tech­no­lo­gy. They re­p­re­sent new forms of or­ga­ni­zing for in­no­va­ti­on. Re­se­arch at the in­sti­tu­te has been fo­cu­sing on the over­all or­ga­niza­tio­nal ar­chi­tec­tu­re of on­line com­mu­nities com­pa­red to tra­di­tio­nal forms of or­ga­ni­zing, in­no­va­ti­on pro­ces­ses in on­line com­mu­nities, com­mu­nities in multi-​institutional de­ve­lo­p­ment col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons as well as how firms can le­ver­age on­line com­mu­nities for in­no­va­ti­on. A re­cent pro­ject ex­ami­nes the in­tro­duc­tion of sym­bo­lic awards on mem­ber be­ha­vi­or wit­hin on­line com­mu­nities.

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CS

Crowd­sour­cing

Crowd­sour­cing is an open call to an­yo­ne to par­ti­ci­pa­te in the pro­blem sol­ving pro­cess of a focal actor. Crowd­sour­cing can take many dif­fe­rent forms ran­ging from ‘small scale pro­blem sol­ving’ in idea­ti­on con­tests to so-​cal­led grand chal­len­ges in which high­ly com­plex pro­blems are being sol­ved over very long time spans.Re­se­arch of the in­sti­tu­te has ex­ami­ned how crowd­sour­cing plat­forms can be used to fo­re­cast the at­trac­ti­ve­n­ess of user-​generated de­signs as well as value crea­ti­on and value cap­tu­re aspects of crowd­sour­cing. Re­cent pro­jects in­ves­ti­ga­te the role of size for crowd­sour­cing suc­cess, the mo­ti­va­tions of con­tri­bu­tors in grand chal­len­ges, the role of crow­ding in idea selec­tion pro­ces­ses, and the role of know­ledge si­mi­la­ri­ty on self-​selection and eva­lua­ti­on out­co­mes on crowd­sour­cing plat­forms.

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