Patrick Pollok
RWTH Aachen University
12 Papers
11 Citations
Patrick Pollok is an academic researcher from RWTH Aachen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crowdsourcing & Open innovation. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 12 publications.
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Papers
Wisdom of the crowd and capabilities of a few: internal success factors of crowdsourcing for innovation
TL;DR: It is found that dedicated promoter roles strongly contribute to a successful implementation of crowdsourcing, turning pilot projects into an organizational routine, and suggestions for organizational interventions to overcome barriers and sources of resistance.
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Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
TL;DR: It is found that teams composed of self-rewarded users in the household sector are better able than teams of professionals to translate the informational benefits of knowledge diversity into novel concepts and game designs and that user teams are in general more likely to create truly creative game designs.
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Leading Edge Users and Latent Consumer Needs in Electromobility : Findings from a Nethnographic Study of User Innovation in High-Tech Online Communities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply Netnography in the context of a complex, business-to-business high-tech industry, namely services and systems for electric vehicles, by analyzing 15 online communities in this domain.
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Implementing Open Innovation Beyond the Pilot Stage: Barriers and Organizational Interventions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on broadcast search (also called tournament-based crowdsourcing), a method in the later stages of an innovation project directed to solve technical problems in form of an open call.