Crowdsourcing as a way to access external knowledge for innovation

Pascale Trompette (), Valérie Chanal () and Cédric Pelissier ()
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Pascale Trompette: PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Valérie Chanal: PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Uman Lab - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2
Cédric Pelissier: PACTE - Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Uman Lab - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2

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Abstract: This paper focuses on "crowdsourcing" as a significant trend in the new paradigm of open innovation (Chesbrough 2006; Chesbrough & Appleyard 2007). Crowdsourcing conveys the idea of opening the R&D processes to "the crowd" through a web 2.0 infrastructure. Based on two cases studies of crowdsourcing webstartups (Wilogo and CrowdSpirit), the paper aims to build a framework to characterize and interpret the tension between value creation by a community and value capture by a private economic actor. Contributing to the discussions on "hybrid organizational forms" in organizational studies (Bruce & Jordan 2007), the analysis examines how theses new models combine various forms of relationships and exchanges (market or non market). It describes how crowdsourcing conveys new patterns of control, incentives and co-ordination mechanisms.

Keywords: community; hybrid organizational forms; platform; communauté; crowdsourcing; innovation; formes organisationnelles hybrides; plateforme; web 2.0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07-10
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Published in 24 th EGOS Colloquium, Jul 2008, Amsterdam, France

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