As academic and practitioner studies on crowdsourcing have been building up since 2006,
the subject itself has progressively gained in importance within the broad field of …

Individual creativity support systems have been developed to facilitate creative work. This
article reviews the various design requirements and approaches proposed for supporting …

A crowdsourcing contest connects solution seekers to online users who compete with each
other to solve the seeker's problem by generating innovative ideas. Knowledge sharing that …

In recent decades, firms have increasingly utilized online innovation communities to facilitate
product development and improvement by encouraging users' product idea submission. An …

Providing stimuli may facilitate idea generation. Creativity theories often suggest that stimuli
unrelated to the problem task will improve creativity, but empirical studies have yielded …

The existing literature offers conflicting advice regarding the types of task instructions that
increase the quality of ideas during idea generation. Our research examines three types of …

This study examined how example features (ie idea novelty and idea diversity) affected
creativity after creative exhaustion. In addition, how individual differences in creativity …

Exposure to examples of varying degrees of originality may impact creative thinking
differently, resulting in either a fixation or a stimulation effect. These effects can be …

Idea seekers in crowdsourcing ideation contests often provide solution exemplars to guide
solvers in develo** ideas. Solvers can also use these exemplars to infer seekers' …

Long‐standing wisdom holds that building on ideas is beneficial for group creativity. We
empirically verify this recommended practice. We analyse creativity sessions of nine groups …