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Opening "open" innovation

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This investigation examines recent literature from management science, social computing and design to develop a framework for understanding the mechanisms that would enable open innovation platforms to more effectively address the most pressing areas of human need reported and reportable by such systems. The many challenges that must be overcome to solve the creative, ethical, and strategic focus problems implicit in existing open innovation systems are described. The paper concludes with specific recommendations for research on such systems, including how highly contextual end-user needs can be satisfied to encourage entrepreneurship and market success. This will only be possible if participants contributing to open innovation systems are enabled to leverage the power of the system for themselves, leading to increasingly open innovation environments.

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Index Terms

Opening "open" innovation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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Chatterjee SMoody GLowry PChakraborty SHardin A(2020)Information Technology and organizational innovation: Harmonious information technology affordance and courage-based actualizationThe Journal of Strategic Information Systems10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101596(101596)Online publication date: Feb-2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2020.101596
Schaffhausen CKowalewski T(2015)Large-Scale Needfinding: Methods of Increasing User-Generated Needs From Large PopulationsJournal of Mechanical Design10.1115/1.4030161137:7Online publication date: 1-Jul-2015
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4030161
Zogaj SBretschneider ULeimeister J(2014)Managing crowdsourced software testing: a case study based insight on the challenges of a crowdsourcing intermediaryJournal of Business Economics10.1007/s11573-014-0721-984:3(375-405)Online publication date: 20-Feb-2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-014-0721-9

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