Innovation-focused co-creation between companies and individual external contributors is accompanied by the challenge of managing intellectual property (IP). The existing literature presents scattered evidence of various elements of the arrangements adopted by companies to manage their IP (such...

Companies run branded crowdsourcing contests to achieve two main goals: generate ideas and create brand equity. This paper provides an empirical typology of contest users and reveals five distinct user types: jacks-of-all-trades, devoted brand fans, pure innovators, reward seekers and passive...

In crowdsourcing contests, managers have to process hundreds of potential solutions on different topics and from different perspectives. This is resource-intensive, and the cognitive limits of humans are quickly exceeded. Applying contemporary AI-based language models is a promising way to help...