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12Th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference July 28-30, 2014 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference July 28-30, 2014 Harvard Business School and Organizers: Carliss Baldwin (HBS) Karim Lakhani (HBS) Stefan Thomke (HBS) Eric von Hippel (MIT) Benjamin Mako Hill (U of Washington) 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference CONTESTS AND CROWDSOURCING Beyond Pricing Decisions: Business Model Innovation in the Two Sided Market of an Open Innovation Intermediary Andy Zynga, Lüttgens Dirk, Frank T. Piller — 1 Strategy Formulation and Execution Open Innovation Pilot Projects Jeffrey R. Davis, Elizabeth E. Richard — 2 Innovation Trajectories - Managing Open and Close Approaches in Innovation Process Shantam Shukla, Mukund Dixit, Anil Gupta, Sanjay Verma — 3 Embedding an open innovation strategy in emerging markets: The case of Natura the largest Brazilian cosmetics company Henry Lopez-Vega, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Adriano Jorge, Leonardo Garnica — 4 Solve, Buy or Broadcast Search? An Empirical Investigation of R&D Managers' Governance Choices for Problem Solving Ihl Christoph, Lüttgens Dirk — 5 From Problem Solvers to Solution Seekers: Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA Hila Lifshitz-Assaf — 6 Selecting the Crowd or an Expert? An Empirical Analysis through a Problem- based View Carolin Haeussler, Vieth Sabrina — 7 Toward a behavioral theory of open innovation Oliver Alexy, Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau, Ammon Salter — 8 Innovation Contests in double unknown: designing generic technologies Olga Kokshagina — 9 The Network as the Crowd in Crowdsourcing Allan Afuah — 10 Design of tournament-based crowdsourcing for business model innovation Lettl Christopher, Christian Garaus — 11 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference A Longitudinal Approach to Cost-Benefit Considerations of Crowdsourcing Participants Vinzenz Treytl — 12 Query formulation in crowdsourcing competitions: the role of abstraction level, pictorial examples, and solution schemes Philipp Topic, Nik Franke — 14 The Contribution of Different Online Communities in Open Innovation Projects Michael Zeng — 15 The Impact of Incentive Preferences on Crowd Behavior Johann Füller, Katja Hutter, Christoph Riedl — 16 Leaps in Innovation: The Effect of Discontinuous Progress in Algorithmic Tournaments Joel Wooten — 17 Participation dynamics in crowd-based knowledge production: The scope and sustainability of interest-based motivation Henry Sauermann, Chiara Franzoni — 18 Is the World Flat? Unpacking the Geography of Crowd Capital Yannig Roth, Jean-François Lemoine, Prashant Shukla, John Prpic — 19 Crowd-Based Sourcing — Global Search and the Twisted Roles of Consumers and Producers Robert M. Bauer, Thomas Gegenhuber — 20 Using Crowds for Evaluation Tasks: Validity by Numbers vs. Validity by Expertise Christoph Hienerth, Frederik Riar — 21 Does Collective Intelligence Create More Biases Than Experts? Evidence from Wikipedia and Britannica Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu — 22 Performance Responses To Competition Across Skill-Levels In Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications For Tournament Design Michael Menietti, Karim Lakhani, Kevin Boudreau — 23 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference Does God play dice - Randomness vs. deterministic explanations of crowdsourcing success Nik Franke, Lettl Christopher, Susanne Roiser, Philipp Tuertscher — 24 Do Crowds have the Wisdom to Self-Organize? Field Experimental Evidence on Team Formation in a Crowdsourcing Contest Andrea Blasco, Kevin Boudreau, Karim Lakhani, Michael Menietti, Christoph Riedl — 25 Inducing Change with an Online Ideation Game Christian W. Scheiner,Katja Kraemer, Kathrin Möslein, Kai-Ingo Voigt — 26 Taking the eyes off the prize: Recreational labor in innovation contests Benedikt Langner, Tomas Enrique Farchi, Victor Seidel — 27 FIRMS’ INTERACTIONS Opening the Black Box of "Not-Invented-Here": Attitudes, Decision Biases, and Behavioral Consequences David Antons, Frank T. Piller — 28 Absorptive capacity for need knowledge: An empirical study of its relation to technical knowledge and its consequences for innovation behavior Tim Schweisfurth, Christina Raasch — 29 Co-Creation from a Telecommunication Provider's Perspective: A comparative study on innovation with customers and employees Milica Sundic, Karl-Heinz Leitner — 30 How to manage the quantity and quality of idea in a co-creation community: The case of recipe site Kei Aoki, Susumu Ogawa — 31 Magnetic Control: Firms Managing Non-Contractual Relations with Open Source Communities Maha Shaikh — 32 Expert users' creativity meets complex product and process constraints – a case study of Tetra Pak's challenge "Can you fold it?" Lars Bengtsson — 33 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference Are You Ready for Open Innovation? Readiness for Change and Individual Knowledge Absorption Wolfgang Gruel, Ihl Christoph — 34 Producer-centrism: the inherent disregard of user innovativeness in new product development Philip Bradonjic, Nik Franke, Christian Lüthje — 35 Where do entrepreneurs locate their new ventures? The role of downstream localization economies, pre-entry experience and product/market strategy Pamela Adams, Franco Malerba, Roberto Fontana — 36 Innovative Brand Community Members and Their Willingness to Share Ideas with Companies Sladjana Nørskov, Yun Mi Antorini, Morten Berg Jensen — 37 Not just Innovation: the emergence of the User-Dependent firm, the case of giff- gaff Steve Flowers — 38 User-led Innovation: From a Firms' Lens on Current & Future Trends Nagwan Abu El-Ella, Andreas Pinkwart — 39 Antecedents to selective revealing: An empirical study in non-OSS environments Markus Deimel — 40 The Influence of Psychological Ownership on Entrepreneurial Activity of Users Wayer Dennis — 41 Knowledge revealing in Open innovation – key dimensions and reciprocity Saumya Amarasinghe, Kenneth Husted, Frank Siedlok — 42 LEAD USERS User driven innovation in electromobility: Applying netnography to identify leading edge users in a high-tech environment Pollok Patrick, Lüttgens Dirk, Frank T. Piller — 43 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference Antecedents and consequences of consumers lead userness: The case of mobile applications Henrik Sällberg, Lars Bengtsson — 44 Exploring the functional sources of disruptive innovation Stephanie Preissner, Christina Raasch — 45 Lead Users characteristics: A study of online Lead Users detection Belbaly Nassim, Clémence Cheruy — 46 How lead users develop and expand user communities sufficiently for producers to enter markets: A case study of masking tape usage innovation Satoshi Horiguchi — 47 Systematic Lead User Identification: Industrial Case Study Framework Sanjin Pajo, Maka de Lameillieure, Paul-Armand Verhaegen, Joost R. Duflou — 48 Implementation of lead users into management practice - An analysis in the German-speaking area Jens Lehnen, Daniel Ehls, Cornelius Herstatt — 49 What Hinders The Application of The Lead User Method in Practice? Insights From The Field Of Innovation Management in Germany Alexander Sänn, Philipp Schneider, Felix Homfeldt — 50 OPEN INNOVATION Disentangling Motives for Strategic Selective Revealing: An Empirical Analysis Hannes W. Lampe, Ihl Christoph — 51 An Evolutionary Model of Collaborative Short-Term Interactions on Innovation in Open Online Challenges Albert Armisen, Ann Majchrzak — 52 Open Innovation and Open Communities in Consumer 3D Printing Joel West, George Kuk — 53 Organizing collaboration: The costs of innovative search Kathleen Diener,Lüttgens Dirk, Frank T. Piller — 54 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference Competing with open innovation on dynamic landscapes Mikko O. J. Laine — 55 Exploring the Multifaceted World of Ecosystems: Literature Streams and Recent Cases Monika Hauck — 56 Effects of Open Innovation on Value Creation and Value Capture in Multi-Sided Market Margherita Pagani, Benassi Mario, Scheid François — 57 The 3D Printable: Private-Collective Innovation in Open Design George Kuk — 58 CROWDFUNDING Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation Ethan Mollick — 59 Agent Heterogeneity in Two-Sided Platforms: Superstar Impact on Crowdfunding Anil Doshi — 60 The Due Diligence of Crowdinvestors: Thorough Evaluation or Gut Feeling Only? Christina Guenther, Christoph Hienerth, Frederik Riar — 61 Crowdfunding: a new driver of user innovation Sara Jane Gonzalez, Jing Shao, Debora Bettiga — 62 Enterprise Crowdfunding: Supporting Openness in Innovation Management beyond Obtaining Ideas Niels Feldmann, Henner Gimpel, Michael Muller, Werner Geyer — 63 Patients and Caregivers as sources of innovative ideas and solutions: a multiple case study approach Rita Oliveira, Pedro Oliveira, Leid Zejnilovic — 64 Exploring roles of crowdinvestors in start-ups Nadine Moser — 65 12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference USER COMMUNITIES Communicating aeronautics innovations, 1900-1916 Peter B Meyer — 66 The User Organisation: A broader perspective on collective user innovation Jose Christian, Steve Flowers — 67 Information Flow and the Loci of Influence in Online User Networks: The Case of iOS Jailbreak Nitin Mayande, Charles Weber — 68 An Investigation into the Conditions that Influence Engagement in Virtual Communities Matthew Terrell, George Kuk, Alexa Spence — 69 The Best of Both Worlds: Conceptualizing Trade-offs between Openness and Closedness for Sharing Economy Models Christopher Smolka, Christoph Hienerth — 70 Online and Offline Social Entrepreneurship in the Light of Mega-Events Diego Mastroianni — 71 Communities in the Federal Armed Forces Koller Hans — 72 Measuring Innovation in Remix Communities
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