Organizational capabilities for successful innovation (original) (raw)

2012, 2012 18th International ICE Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation

W orl<flow Engineering for Crowdsourcing in Project Management

This paper addresses the emerging area of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is an online problem solving paradigm that is used to tap the intellect of the crowd. This combination of the human and computational intelligence has open doors to complex problem domains such as software project management. Crowdsourcing occurs in teams and among various teams. During the process various tasks such as knowledge sharing, problem solving, problem detection and innovative solutions become available on the crowdsourcing platform. This paradigm is very helpful when team members are working on the same problem as they are aware of the dynamics of the solution under development, even people with the similar experience, outside the team, can be helpful as processes related experience to the problem to be solved with advantage of peer vetting outside the systems. We studied various crowdsourcing systems workflows and propose design consideration for engineering such systems.

Role of innovation intermediaries in open innovation practices: differences between micro-small and medium-large firms

Opening the innovation process represents a new opportunity for small, medium and large firms to increase the internal innovative capacity and to raise their overall innovation performance. Although large firms still realised the higher amount of innovation, few studies have paid attention to open innovation (OI) in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and how the use of OI practices in SMEs differ from large enterprises. Starting from the findings in Spithoven (2013) that SMEs can foster the introduction of new offerings through collaboration with several innovation partners and that collaboration with partners increases the likelihood that SMEs launch new products and services, we investigate through a web-based survey realised in Italy how organisational factors, strategic factors and environmental factors impact on the ability of a firm to adopt an OI approach, if size matters, and whether innovation intermediaries play a critical role in the opening process.

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