Artificial intelligence is an emerging topic and will soon be able to perform decisions better than humans. In more complex and creative contexts such as innovation, however, the question remains whether machines are superior to humans. Machines fail in two kinds of situations: processing and...

Business incubators are an important mechanism to accelerate the success of new ventures. The emergence of ubiquitous IT allows to provide several support services for start-ups via online platforms. One particularly promising approach is the concept of crowd-based incubation. To shed light on...

Setting up Internet of Things (IoT) business models is a challenging tasks which leads to dramatic numbers of failures. To support both corporates and startups, business accelerators gain increasing popularity. However, most of such efforts have several restrictions such as limited capabilities,...

Twitter allows users to publicly share their opinions on certain products in the form of micro-blogs. Such data can be collected and classified to help crowdfunding campaign owners to infer user needs, detect problems with their product and services and plan for future releases of their offers....

Digital technology is rapidly changing the organisation of work. On form of digital work is crowd work that is gaining increasing importance in the field of software development. However, only few platforms are able to sustainably create and capture value. We therefore provide an examination of...

This paper demonstrates how IT-supported ideas competitions can be implemented within universities. In the context of open innovation, ideas competitions are used as a customer integration method serving companies as a profound basis for the leveraging of innovative ideas within innovation...

In this research in progress paper we report on our efforts to recruit idea contributors for a topic-related ideas competition. Due to the narrow topic of the competition, we expected our present marketing measures to imply high spreading losses. As a consequence we adapted the pyramiding...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) emerged as a new type of fundraising that is conducted over the web and is mainly used by open-source blockchain-type start-ups to get their business started. While ICOs recently attracted a lot of attention from investors as well as the media, research on this...

The purpose of this research is therefore to provide a fine-grained, domain-specific examination of design choices and investigates how configurations of design choices are related to firm performance. By conducting an inductive multiple case study design, the uses of scalable machine learning...