Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

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Where Do Creative Interactions Come From? The Role of Tie Content and Social Networks (2011, background): “…phenomenon typically involves individuals , pairs, or groups generating potentially creative ideas, which after internal evaluation are then presented to the community for further scrutiny and selection (Simonton 1988; Csikszentmihalyi 1988, 1996; Fleming et al. 2007; Girotra et al. 2010).”
Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas over Time: An Analysis of the Dell IdeaStorm Community (2013, background): “Moreover, under the right conditions, individuals can generate ideas that an organization ﬁnds valuable enough to implement (Kavadias and Sommer 2009, Magnusson 2009, Poetz and Schreier 2012, Girotra et al. 2010).”
Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis (2011, background): “Although abundant theory presumes this effect, we contribute to a nascent literature (see, for example, Girotra et al. 2010) that quantiﬁes it.”
On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design : Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples (2011, result): “This last relationship is in accord with the work of Ulrich and colleagues in the field of innovation management, who have argued and showed empirically that one way to increase the likelihood of finding high market potential product concepts is to increase the variance of the quality of the concept”