The Front End of Innovation: Organizing Search for Ideas

被引:76
作者
van den Ende, Jan [1 ]
Frederiksen, Lars [2 ]
Prencipe, Andrea [3 ]
机构
[1] Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam Sch Management, Management Technol & Innovat, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands
[2] Aarhus Univ, Dept Business Adm, Aarhus, Denmark
[3] Carli Univ, Rome, Italy
关键词
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SUGGESTION SYSTEMS; CREATIVITY; PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE; NETWORKS; WORK; IMPLEMENTATION; COMMUNITIES; DEVELOPERS;
D O I
10.1111/jpim.12213
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Large firms like use idea management programs to fertilize, capture, mature, evaluate, and manage ideas from internal sources to introduce innovation. With the increasing specialization of scientific and technological knowledge, also supported by information technology-based tools, the numbers of ideas generated and acquired internally and externally may well become disproportionate to the computational and selective capacity of firms. As a consequence, managing this phase of innovation is delicate and can turn out to be detrimental to firms' innovation processes and ensuing performance, unless strategically managed. Control and setting direction refers to aligning ideas with the goals of the firm, for example, by setting criteria, providing processes, and eventually selecting the most promising ideas. Whereas the first objective aims at increasing the quantity and novelty of ideas, the second aims at reducing their number and at the same time increasing their quality and usefulness for the firm's strategy.
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页码:482 / 487
页数:6
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