Purpose Through a comprehensive review of the literature on open innovation (OI), this
study aimed to achieve two objectives:(1) to identify the main thematic areas discussed in …

While open innovation organizations have grown in popularity, they hold a high failure rate.
This paper identifies limiting factors that contribute to this high failure rate at three levels …

Crowdsourcing challenges are fast emerging as an effective tool for solving complex
innovation problems. The main strength of the crowdsourcing model is that it brings together …

Collective creativity and innovation are key determinants of various important outcomes
ranging from competitiveness of an organization to GDP growth of a country. As a result, this …

Recent open innovation literature indicates increasing concern about the quality of
crowdsourced ideas. Building on a framework of creativity capability, rooted in behavioral …

Organizations increasingly engage in crowdsourcing to find solutions to their innovation
problems, but many of these solutions are of low quality. This could be because …

Open innovation contests that display all submitted ideas to participants are a popular way
for firms to generate ideas. In such contest-based ideation, the authors show that seeing …

To meet the challenges of customization and personalized design in the context of the digital
economy, increasing numbers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are using …

With the ubiquity of the internet and social media platforms, open innovation (OI)
opportunities now extend to individuals with creative ideas and interests in innovation …

Internal innovation contests are the most frequently realized practical approach to capturing
organization-wide creativity. Here, important business challenges are digitally broadcasted …