Tacit knowledge activation: a conceptual framework for contest-based innovation platforms

Valérie Revest () and Bérangère Szostak
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Valérie Revest: MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon
Bérangère Szostak: UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris-Saclay

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Abstract: The complexity of the economy – changing social, technological and environmental fabric, the pandemic, climate crisis and war - requires companies to move ever faster to develop original, new and beneficial or "creative ideas". However, required knowledge may be openly talked about and explicit while other knowledge is unsaid. Tacit knowledge is particularly critical when it comes to contest-based innovation platforms given that they may involve crowdsourcing whereby firms put their research and innovation challenges online. Literature on contests and platforms focuses mainly on solvers' motives, platform-posted challenge types, success factors related to launching innovation and so on. But, the more pressing question is, how tacit knowledge is revealed on these platforms? As a result, we do not know what organizational schemes bring tacit knowledge to bear We attempt to answer by zooming in on a novel conceptual framework based on three types of research: (i) empirical results concerning how platforms work and their specific features with regard to stimulating new ideas, (ii) review of problem solving and tacit knowledge in organizational and evolutionary theory and (iii) organizational approaches that study how context impacts creativity.

Keywords: Innovation contests; Digital platform; Tacit knowledge; Evolutionary economic; Creativity; Organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-09-04
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Published in The 36th Annual EAEPE Conference 2024 - Economics in a changing world. New perspectives to economic analysis and economic policy, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Sep 2024, Bilbao, Spain

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