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Crowdsourcing for innovation: from knowledge capture to knowledge integration, the key role of absorptive capacities

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  • Sébastien Brion

    (CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université)

  • Ruiz Emilie
  • Guy Parmentier

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Crowdsourcing (CS) for innovation is defined as the outsourcing of problem solving or creative tasks to the crowd. The literature points out the benefits for developing absorptive capacities (ACAP). In this specific open CS context, little is known about the integrative actions for this external knowledge. This explorative research tries to fill this gap by considering five cases of CS for innovation. When implementing CS for innovation, we show that firms succeed in developing potential absorptive capacities (acquisition and assimilation of the crowd's knowledge), yet experience significant difficulties in developing realized absorptive capacities (transformation and exploitation of the crowd's knowledge). Integrative actions implemented during the realized absorptive capacities (RACAP) step are not sufficiently strong to create new value with captured knowledge, and other factors like organizational integration should be considered.
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  • Sébastien Brion & Ruiz Emilie & Guy Parmentier, 2017. "Crowdsourcing for innovation: from knowledge capture to knowledge integration, the key role of absorptive capacities," Post-Print hal-01528171, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01528171
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    1. Schenk, Eric & Guittard, Claude & Pénin, Julien, 2019. "Open or proprietary? Choosing the right crowdsourcing platform for innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 303-310.

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    ACAP; PACAP; RACAP; Crowdsourcing;
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