The potential of collective intelligence for fostering innovation: social technologies perspective
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2013 |
The subject of our research are networked projects (collective intelligence systems) which include collective decision-making tools and innovation mechanisms allowing and encouraging individual and team creativity, entrepreneurship, online collaboration, new forms of self-regulation and self-governance, self-configuration of communities by considering these projects as being sensors for development of collective intelligence (CI). Our first task is to define the phenomena of CI and identify the areas for applying CI systems in innovation management by distilling the best practices from existing and new initiatives and by targeting the integration of various scientific approaches. In our research paper, we try to answer the question how collective intelligence could contribute to the development of innovation in networked society. The answer to this theoretical question could have huge practical implications. Innovative technology enterprises use social technologies for creating competitive advantage but without scientific reasoning, they often choose inadequate tools or methods and do not create expected value and sustainability. By evaluating the existing networked platforms the opportunity for developers will be created to integrate or to develop new tools or IT based applications fostering innovations.