Governing crowd-based innovations: an interdisciplinary research agenda

The crowd increasingly plays a key role in facilitating innovations in a variety of sectors, spurred on by IT-developments and the concomitant increase in connectivity. Initiatives in this direction, captured under the umbrella-term ‘crowd-based innovations’ (CBI), offer novel opportunities in all domains of society by increasing the access,...

Crowd-based innovaties: verschuivende verantwoordelijkheden in een institutional void

The crowd increasingly plays a key role in facilitating innovations in a variety of sectors, spurred on by IT developments and the concomitant increase in connectivity. Initiatives in this direction, captured under the umbrella term ‘crowd-based innovations’, offer novel opportunities in socio-technical systems by increasing the access, reach...

Into The Open/Mobilizing Crowd Intelligence to Source Disruptive Innovations at Robert Bosch GmbH

The ‘Stats’ page on Kickstarter.com claims a total of $1,221,791,199 pledged to 65,673 successfully funded projects by 6,613,502 supporters as of today (July 18th, 2014). The tenets of web 2.0 and crowd-based innovation platforms are enabling ordinary but motivated user-innovators to create and own disruptive innovations. This is also pushing...