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Companies betting big on open innovation

hackerearth

Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use of innovation, respectively. The free flow, in and out, of ideas and IP promotes innovative ecosystems. Why does open innovation work?

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call. External crowdsourcing is mostly efficient when applied to market-creating innovations.

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Matching Crowdsourcing to Specific Stages of Business Model Innovation

Qmarkets

To describe EC, I’ll borrow its “classic” 2006 definition by Jeff Howe as an act of taking a job traditionally performed inside the firm and outsourcing it to a large (and usually undefined) group of people in the form of an open call. External crowdsourcing is mostly efficient when applied to market-creating innovations.