Absorptive Capacity is the limiting factor for harnessing the enormous innovation potential of open innovation communities. Thus, four qualitative case studies research the selection of ideas from these communities in the context of absorption processes and competences of community-operators. They show how mechanisms for collective idea evaluation, which enable community-users to evaluate ideas online, support this selection. The effective design of such mechanisms is evaluated in three experiments.     «

Absorptive Capacity is the limiting factor for harnessing the enormous innovation potential of open innovation communities. Thus, four qualitative case studies research the selection of ideas from these communities in the context of absorption processes and competences of community-operators. They show how mechanisms for collective idea evaluation, which enable community-users to evaluate ideas online, support this selection. The effective design of such mechanisms is evaluated in three experime...     »