Crowdsourcing et développement d’un écosysteme d’affaires: une étude de cas

Eric Schenk and Claude Guittard

Innovations, 2016, vol. n° 49, issue 1, 39-54

Abstract: Crowdsourcing (CS) provides access to external knowledge, and may be a relevant way to facilitate the innovation process of a company. In the open innovation paradigm (Chesbrough, 2003), innovation is the outcome of a coupling between outside-in and inside-out processes mobilizing the company and its partners. Therefore innovation can be understood in a business ecosystems logic. In this article, we use a case study to show how CS can be implemented to develop a business ecosystem. By mobilizing the literature on CS, business ecosystems and C-K theory, we emphasize the convergence between some of the success factors for CS and for the evolution of a business ecosystem : openness and modularity. In the studied case, CS contributes to the upstream phase of the development of a business ecosystem through the exploration of new concepts. JEL Codes : L80, 031, O32

Keywords: crowdsourcing; business ecosystem; open innovation; C-K theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L80 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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