Exploring the sources of innovation: the case of Hackathon

Régis Dumoulin () and Päris Chrysos
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Régis Dumoulin: GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Institut National de l'Horticulture et du Paysage
Päris Chrysos: ISC Paris - Institut Supérieur du Commerce de Paris

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Abstract: This paper advances the exploration of the sources of innovation through the characteristics of the objects produced. To achieve a greater openness to the un- known of innovation processes, we choose not to examine final products. While, as put by von Hippel, final products embed in their functions a value (of use or of exchange), they hide the non-deterministic nature of the process, implying that the goal was known from the beginning. Instead, we will examine poten- tial products, that means projects that have not yet concluded to the market, neither have they been used. Investigating the contributions at a Hackathon hosted by Google, we induce three categories of innovative attitude: collective intimacy, entrepreneurial thinking and technological avant-garde.

Keywords: hackathon; innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in 7th International Research Meeting in Business and Management (IRMBAM - IPAG), 2016, Nice, France

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