Applying Game Mechanisms to Idea Competitions

2011 ◽  
pp. 144-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Birke ◽  
Maximilian Witt ◽  
Susanne Robra-Bissantz
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Creative Behavior ◽  
Motivational Effect ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Game Context

In these times of a collaborative Web, consumers actively participate in the creation, elaboration, and evaluation of new content. Portals like Wikipedia demonstrate how this collaborative and creative behavior can result in valuable outcome. Companies benefit, as well, from this active role of the consumer: Consumers generate, develop, and evaluate new ideas for products and services in idea competitions. A challenge of today’s idea competitions is that the recent “inflationary increase” partly results in a decrease of participation. The purpose of this study is to explore one possible approach to transfer the positive motivational effect of games to idea competitions. The transfer of playful elements from a game context to the model of open innovation is what we call “game-based open innovation.” Based on theoretical insights, analysis of 18 cases and three interviews, this study demonstrates the actual occurrence of game mechanisms and their effect on the motivation of participants.

Values, credibility, and ethics: public advocacy and conservation science

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Harry F. Recher
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Conservation Science ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

While it is important for conservation scientists to advise government on policy, they need to do more than give advice. Conservation scientists need to be public advocates for the creation of economies that are ecologically sustainable. To achieve sustainability conservation scientists must assume a role of leadership in the development and application of global environmental policies. Not all scientists agree with advocacy, but advocacy for conservation of the natural world means creating an ethical world, a world where all generations and people as well as all other species can share the Earth’s resources. At present that world does not exist and conservation scientists need to take a more active role in its creation.

scholarly journals RETHINKING THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIARIES AS AN ARCHITECT OF COLLECTIVE EXPLORATION AND CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN OPEN INNOVATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 1350007 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARINE AGOGUÉ ◽  
ANNA YSTRÖM ◽  
PASCAL LE MASSON
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
High Uncertainty

This paper questions the applicability of traditional notions of intermediary activities, which are usually categorized as either brokering or networking, in cases of high uncertainty regarding technologies, markets or which actors to involve. In the case of collaborative open innovation, especially in circumstances when no single organization is able to take on the challenge alone, the activities traditionally associated with intermediation do not suffice to describe what an intermediary can do to support innovation. This paper presents two cases of intermediaries working with the early phases of traffic safety innovations, and how they have managed to develop their activities beyond solely brokering and networking, but also to take an active role in the process of joint exploration and creation of knowledge. We use a qualitative approach to analyze the two cases in order to provide examples of how rethinking intermediation activities can support open innovation in a collaborative setting. The findings suggest that intermediaries can take on a more active role, which could be described as an architect which designs prerequisites and offers leadership in the process of joint exploration and creation of knowledge.

scholarly journals PERSPECTIVES FOR COMPETITION IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1643-1648
Author(s):  
Yuliyan Velkov
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Competitive Interaction ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Healthcare Experiences ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual

A paradox has been established in the modern healthcare industry - consumers can choose between many alternatives but with high uncertainty, while healthcare establishments have numerous possibilities, but they function in conditions of rigorous demand, globalization and large-scale technological efficiency. This requires a re-evaluation of the classical understanding of competition in value creation - healthcare effects (for patients) and financial gains (for the performance of medical and related activities). Today, competition can be explained as a competition for the creation, supply and realization of healthcare products and related services and goods. It is a dynamic process of competition and, in a more general sense, interaction between competing subjects under conditions of significant state interference. It reflects the modern perceptions of health, the improvement of biotechnology and pharmacy, the changed role of the patients - more and more informed, educated, active and united in thematic groups. For the realization with a focus on personal patient preferences, this embodies the characteristics of the interaction between the healthcare establishment and the patient. Competition integrates business logic and patient thinking. In the context of the concept of joint value creation, it covers the intense interactions between healthcare institutions and the individual. Competition in the healthcare industry is based on dialogue, access, risk assessment and transparency at every stage of value creation and realization. This is realized as a competitive interaction in the environment (network) from the influences of healthcare institutions and other producers of medical and non-medical services and goods, thematic associations and regulations. This is a rivalry in creating and offering healthcare products tailored to individual patient's views, preferences, expectations and financial capabilities. The prospects for a competitive race are a transition from competitiveness to competitive interaction. In parallel with the improvement of the operational efficiency of the medical institution, this imposes, the increasing individualization of the created healthcare products. This requires the development of an environment for shared healthcare experiences with the customer. Thus, the development of competition is connected with the realization of the competitive potential of the healthcare establishment through the prism of patient choice - joint creation of healthcare experience through many channels, through options, through transactions and at an appropriate price-to-experience ratio. Consequently, the competitiveness targeting passive patients in need of treatment is shifted from an effective healthcare establishment-to-patient interaction in order to jointly provide patient satisfaction. Competition is a race between dependant healthcare establishments; it is a rivalry between producers of healthcare effects interacting with patients among many environmental influences. Contemporary competition in the healthcare industry is a mechanism for jointly creating healthcare effects by interaction between a healthcare establishment and a patient with the active role of those in need of treatment. This is realized in the form of competition and co-operation in the course of the creation of individualized healthcare experiences. Competition combines a variety of subjective patient needs, medicinal product characteristics, and network experience qualities. As a guideline for improving competition, we can point to enhancing the quality of the environment, enhancing the possibility to take into account patient need heterogeneity, increasing adaptability to changes in demand, and enhancing capabilities to mobilize all potential competencies.

Making Use of Intellectual Property in Open Innovation Business Activities

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Business Enterprises

Intellectual capital is the creation of more wealth by dint of knowledge and knowledge-based processes. The cycle of intellectual capital begins at inner faculties of a human being, in the application of skills, knowledge, experimentation, and research. Thus, it begins at the knowledge level in a person and ends at the creation of capital. This capital is known as intellectual capital. This chapter mainly explains the role of the elements in intellectual capital for open innovative initiatives in business enterprises. Five case illustrations are discussed in open innovation management with the elements of intellectual capital.

scholarly journals Konteksty społeczne początku XX wieku a poradnictwo dla rodziców w zakresie opieki i wychowania na ziemiach polskich

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Witold Ostafiński
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Special Meaning

Social Contexts of the Beginning of the 20th Century and Counseling for Parents in the Field of Care and Education in Poland The beginning of the 20th century was a period of great popularity of guidebooks for parents, which often dealt with issues related to the care and upbringing of children in the family, and the authors focused especially on the role of the mother, assigning it a special meaning. The aim of the article is to present the content of counseling for parents on the care and upbringing of children at the beginning of the 20th century in Poland. The article also presents the position of the educators and psychologists of the time on the issues related to the upbringing and care of children in the family environment. The analyzes include publications that appeared in Poland in a period of political change that initiated changes in the approach to the tasks of the family regarding upbringing and childcare. The independence of Poland enabled the development of native pedagogical thought, which resulted in the implementation of new ideas and the creation of new concepts of education.

scholarly journals Bezpieczeństwo ekonomiczne, zmiany klimatyczne, wyzwania

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Marek LESZCZYŃSKI
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Balanced Approach ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation

Economic security constitutes one of the main areas of research carried out by representatives of security studies. Its level is conditioned by many factors of economic, political, law or cultural character. The article points out the conditions connected with the process of climate warming and their meaning for shaping the economic security. As a hypothesis it has been assumed that it is crucial to make a significant change in the scope of shaping the consumption model and the role of the state in shaping the processes of development. It serves the creation of economic force with a simultaneous balanced approach to the use of natural resources. The article has a review character, it's aim is to indicate the necessity of a change into the more active role of the state in shaping the security and economic order. In this context, the use of works developed by the Swedish school of economy and Scandinavian studies over peace (including mainly the peace economics) can become the basis to create the development model which uses the approach that connects the economic, natural and institutional interests. The creation of economic security bases of a state must, in a pragmatic and responsible way, include the limitation of natural resources and at the same time take into account the social aims connected with the quality of people’s lives.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF M.NATSIR TENTANG SUBYEK DAKWAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Fethan Werdaty
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Islamic Values

Prophet as an actor first preaching in the life of Islam, with persistent and knows no despair, he delivered the message of Islam until his death. In connection with it as ukhairu ummah” then any Muslim either individually or in groups should inherit the position as the subject of preaching is not the object of propaganda let alone act as someone who does not do anything. Muslim communities must be at the core and is responsible for calling on people to take an active role of truth and prevent those things from falsehood, so that the goal can be achieved with the Islamic da’wah well and smoothly in accordance with what is expected. To carry out and deliver da'wah to its target objects, there are many methods or methods carried out by ulama, Da'i and da'wah practitioners, all of which rely on efforts to convey religious messages or Islamic values. In this regard, when the message of preaching will be delivered to the object, the thing that must be considered is the creation of a process of acceptance and understanding of da'wah messages in an atmosphere that is good and peaceful, does not lead to contra, divisive or even confusing understanding which results in no achieved the expected missionary purpose. On the one hand, the essence of da'wah in the socio-cultural system is to organize and provide direction for change. Changing the structure of society and culture from tyranny towards justice, ignorance towards progress / intelligence, poverty towards prosperity, all backwardness towards progress in order to improve the degree of humans and society towards the peak of humanity (tawa). The obligation to carry out Islamic da'wah, is certainly closely related to the commands of Allah SWT. In the A1-Qur'an, among the arguments that show the obligation of da'wah are listed in the which means the following: "And let there be among you a group of people who call upon virtue, send to those who speak and prevent from the poor, they are the lucky ones.

scholarly journals The Sunday Project: por uma prática reflexiva e colaborativa [Suzane Weber da Silva]

REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Teatro & Dança Repertório
Keyword(s):  
Active Role ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Spectator

<div>O presente artigo apresenta uma parte da análise da criação <em>The Sunday Project</em>, de Pamela Newell. Seu objetivo é demonstrar e discutir aspectos da prática artística e corporal deste estudo de caso, de modo a compreender como certos bailarinos-criadores se distinguem das práticas dominantes em dança contemporânea. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudode inspiração etnográfica, tendo como coleta de informações observações, notas de campos, registros em vídeo e entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Este artigo apresenta uma pequena parte deste estudo de caso, de modo a exemplificar aspectos da prática artística que privilegiam um corpo dançante menos hierarquizado que os das práticas dominantes. Em <em>The Sunday Project</em>, os aspectos de colaboração, de performance e de improvisação são parte fundamental desta criação e favorecem um papel mais ativo ao espectador.</div><div><br /></div><div>This article presents part of the analysis of the creation <em>The Sunday Project</em> of Pamela Newell. Its objective is to demonstrate and discuss aspects of the artistic and corporeal practice of the study of case of Pamela Newell, in order to understand how certain dancer-creators stand out of the dominant practices in contemporary dance. This study was inspired by an ethnographic approach, collecting information based on observations, fields notes, registrations in video and semi-structured interviews. This article presents a small part of this case study, as a way of exemplifying aspects of the artistic practice that privileges a dancing body less influenced by a hierarchy than the ones of the dominant practices. In <em>The Sunday Project</em>, the aspects of cooperation, performance and improvisation are the fundamental parts of this creation and they favor a more active role of the spectator. <br /></div>

E-Collaborative Knowledge Construction

2011 ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Ertl
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Age ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Individual

Knowledge has become an important factor in the success of organizations. Several authors reflect this in their use of terms such as knowledge society (e.g., Nonaka, 1994) or knowledge age (e.g., Bereiter, 2002). The role of knowledge has changed fundamentally with the development of a knowledge society. Knowledge is still an indispensable resource for the individual as well as for an organization, but the emphasis lies on the creation of new knowledge (see Nonaka, 1994). This change also has consequences for the individual acquisition of knowledge and, in turn, for learning. In traditional learning scenarios, knowledge was seen as a commodity that could be transferred directly from one brain to another. This resulted in an interaction between teacher and learner, in which the teacher had an active role and presented parts of his knowledge to the learners, who passively received and memorized them (see Ertl, Winkler, & Mandl, 2007). However, studies have shown that whilst learning by such presentations of explicit knowledge enabled learners to reproduce it in tests, they failed to transfer it to new situations and often failed to apply it in the creation of new knowledge—the knowledge learners acquired remained inert (Renkl, Mandl, & Gruber, 1996).

scholarly journals On the History of International Socio-Economic Relations of the Arctic Regions and Thirty-Year Anniversary of the «Northern Forum»

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28
Author(s):  
Boris Krasnopolski
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The research is a journey into a history of relatively recent establishment and development of international relations and cooperation of the Arctic regions of our country and the world. Thaw in relations between the Soviet Union taken place in the 80s of the last century and other countries affected the development of the territories of the states members of the well-known international Arctic Council, as well as a number of other countries with political and economic interests in the Arctic. This thaw created the basis for the creation of the Northern Forum in 1991, an international non-political organization of regional governors, which expressed the ambitions of the countries of the North and Arctic regions to develop international cooperation. In 2021, this organization will celebrate its 30th anniversary. Its creation is directly related to an active role of Walter J. Hickel (Wally J. Hickel), who in those years was the governor of Alaska (USA). He got elected twice to the office of governor and put enormous business and personal efforts into the creation of the Northern Forum. Unfortunately, in recent years the ability of the Forum to support and strengthen international sustainable socio-economic development in the Arctic region has substantially decreased. Despite the great efforts of the Forum secretariat, which is now located in Yakutsk, its role is declining, which is apparently caused by the growth of political and economic confrontations between the leading Arctic countries. The author puts forward his perspectives on the increasing role of the Northern Forum in the international cooperation of the Arctic countries in the light of new initiatives.

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