The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas?
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...[13] speak of the exploitation of creative ideas, and Poetz and Schreier [39] contemplate idea generation....
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...With respect to the type of call used to propose tasks to the crowd, only ten documents make reference to the use of an open call [1,13,28,32,33,39,46,36,40,43]....
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...With regard to the type of process addressed by crowdsourcing, there are authors who identify it as an outsourcing process, such as in the case of Amazon Mechanical Turk [13, 38, 39, 46, 36, 43] and others as a problem-solving process [9, 37, 40] via a distributed online process [37], such as in the case of InnoCentive....
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...The selected examples are: Wikipedia (collaborative online encyclopedia), InnoCentive (an online platform where money is offered in exchange for the solution of problems), Threadless (an internet t-shirt company, whose designs are created and selected by users), Amazon Mechanical Turk (a platform where crowdsourcers can propose tasks that are offered in exchange for money), ModCloth (an internet clothing shop that allows its users to give opinions on and vote for clothing designs before their sale), YouTube (an internet video platform), Lánzanos (a Spanish website were people give money for participating in different projects, receiving rewards for their participation), Delicious (a social bookmarking system), Fiat Mio (an initiative begun by Fiat through which a car has been created following the suggestions of users), iStockphoto (an internet image sale platform) and Flickr (a platform that allows the uploading and tagging of photographs)....
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...In regards to the type of process addressed by crowdsourcing, there are authors who identify it as an outsourcing process, such as in the case of Amazon Mechanical Turk [13,38,39,46,36,43] and others as a problem solving process [9,37,40] via a distributed online process [37], such as in the case of InnoCentive....
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...This identification might take place inside the firm (Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2010; Poetz and Schreier, 2012), by an external intermediary (Nambisan and Sawhney, 2007), or even by the community of external contributors (Ebner et al....
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...In some cases, the firm is explicitly present and collaborating in organizing or producing the innovation for its own financial benefit, as with cocreation (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004) or crowdsourcing (Afuah and Tucci, 2012; Jeppesen and Lakhani, 2010; Poetz and Schreier, 2012)....
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