Invention Development. The Hackathon Method

Maciej Rys

Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2023, vol. 21, issue 3, 499-511

Abstract: Over last few decades, innovation became one of the most meaningful resources for successful management. In order to spark invention, the first step of innovation, a number of methods have been introduced including hackathon. This paper evaluates 14 hackathons over a period of over 3 years from various perspectives and with an ethnographic approach and different research methods– observation, 36 semi-structured interviews and netnography. Material analysis has been performed with methods of grounder theory, as well as machine learning as a triangulation method. As a result, types and approaches of hackathon, together with a new empirical definition, ways of how this method mitigates drawbacks of brainstorming and a unique relationship between concepts of preparation difficulty and likelihood of desired invention at the hackathon have been introduced and presented.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2021.1911607

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