In the field of Open Innovation, virtual communities set up by companies in order to integrate customers into their … innovation process are a new and promising instrument.[...] …

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words among IS and innovation researchers. The major … innovation processes. But what are necessary and suitable functio-nalities and tools concerning a virtual Community for … Innovation?[...] …

Purpose: Drawing from literature on innovation, strategy and culture the objective of this study is toexplore the role …

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 …

paper develops a conceptual framework of actors andtheir roles in an open innovation system for a networked ecosystem of Web …-services. The frameworkillustrates how open innovation can be implemented in a Web-service ecosystem to increaseinnovation … innovation processes.[...] …

stakeholders into a company’s innovation management through a virtual community. This novelinstrument for opening up a company …’s innovation process towards external stakeholders enablescollaborative creation and implementation of innovations along the entire … innovation process.[...] …

scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of … their employer. We also findthat the contribution of mobile R&D workers to innovation depreciates fairly rapidly …