作为新的开放式创新模式,网上创新竞争受到业界和学术界越来越多的关注,目前该领域的研究处于初步阶段。为深化该领域的研究,首先分析网上创新竞争对开放式创新的意义及中国网上创新竞争发展现状,然后从现金奖励、解答者行为和解答者集体智慧三个方面分析研究现状,最后在总结当前研究进展的基础上提出四个需要深入研究的话题。
Online innovation contest is a new effective way for open innovation.The corporations can submit contest problems online to seek solutions from a variety of external solvers,and the solver who submits the best solution will get the award set by the sponsor.Online innovation contest,as a new open innovation method,is gaining more and more attention from researchers and practitioners.The current research is in the primary exploring stage.This paper aimed to further the research in this area.Firstly,we analyzed the value of online innovation contest for open innovation,and the current situations of online innovation contest in China.Secondly,the research in online innovation contest was reviewed from three aspects: monetary incentive,solvers' behavior,and solvers collective intelligence.Finally,we summarized extant research and propose four topics for further research.