Does Collaboration among Participants Lead to Better Ideas in IT-based IdeaCompetitions? An Empirical Investigation

Research has shown that idea competitions are apromising approach for integrating customers intoopen innovation activities. Furthermore research onopen innovation shows that most innovations are theresult of intensive collaboration processes in whichmany individuals contribute according to theirspecific strengths [20, 22, 39, 47]. So, fosteringcollaboration among idea contributors in ideacompetitions might be a very fruitful approach forunleashing the customers’ entire creative potentialfor “open R&D” and thus making idea competitionseven more successful.[...]