Toolkits for Idea Competitions: A Novel Method to Integrate Users in New Product Development

By Frank T. Piller, Dominik Walcher. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Strategy and Management

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Shifting intra- and inter-organizational innovation processes towards digital business: An empirical analysis of SMEs (2017, background): “In relation to this, Piller and Walcher (2006) discussed a specific Internet ‐ based tool, the toolkit for idea competitions (TIC), which aims to implement user competition and assist in integration.”
Leveraging Crowdsourcing: Activation-Supporting Components for IT-Based Ideas Competition (2009, background): “If [29] task specificity is low, no specific scope is addressed.”
Creative Imitation: Exploring the Case of Cross-Industry Innovation (2010, neutral): “Enriching the company’s own knowledge base by integrating suppliers, customers, and external knowledge sources can increase a company’s innovativeness (Chesbrough 2003, Gassmann 2006, Laursen and Salter, 2006; Lettl et al., 2006; Piller and Walcher, 2006).”
Community Engineering for Innovations: The Ideas Competition as a Method to Nurture a Virtual Community for Innovations (2009, background): “The literature provides useful concepts and tools to reduce traditional organization boundaries (cp. von Hippel and Katz, 2002; Franke and Piller, 2004; Enkel and Gassmann, 2005; Piller and Walcher, 2006).”
How MNC's subsidiaries may improve their innovative performance? The role of external sources and knowledge management capabilities (2017, background): “Piller and Walcher (2006) are in line with this, highlighting how KM systems need to be implemented in order to support the diffusion, sharing and transfer of knowledge within the firm and with the external environment.”
Open R&D and open innovation: exploring the phenomenon (2009, background): “This process can increase a company’s innovativeness (Laursen and Salter, 2006; Lettl et al., 2006; Piller and Walcher, 2006).”
Different Modes of Open Innovation: A Theoretical Framework and an Empirical Study (2009, background): “the need of a champion) and the use of dedicated rewarding systems as well as knowledge management systems (Chesbrough, 2003; Piller and Walcher, 2006) that are able to support the diffusion, sharing and transfer of knowledge within the firm and with the external environment.”
The Value of Crowdsourcing: Can Users Really Compete with Professionals in Generating New Product Ideas? (2012, methodology): “, based on the lead user method; Hienerth, Poetz, and von Hippel, 2007; Lilien, Morrison, Searls, Sonnack, and von Hippel, 2002; von Hippel, 1986), crowdsourcing relies on a self-selection process among users willing and able to respond to widely broadcast idea generation competitions (Lakhani, Jepp”