It’s the Conversation, Stupid!

Aldo Moor () and Mark Aakhus ()
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Aldo Moor: CommunitySense
Mark Aakhus: Rutgers University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Managing Open Innovation Technologies, 2013, pp 17-33 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Open innovation is about crossing boundaries to create networked synergies in/across collaborative communities. Conversations are the lifeblood of communities, building the common ground of shared meanings, beliefs, interests, norms, goals, trust and social capital. A fundamental challenge for open innovation lies in the successful crafting of the social media systems supporting the community conversations. Innovation communities (which are not limited to business interests but also include public and civic organisations and communities) therefore need to continuously make sense of the conversation context of the tools they use. We provide a conceptual lens with which to examine this sociotechnical conversation context. We illustrate the use of this lens with a plausible scenario of open innovation in the societal stakeholder networks around climate change research.

Keywords: Open Innovation; Twitter User; Conversation Context; Collaborative Community; Sociotechnical System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31650-0_2

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