Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organiza...

An important aspect in generating creative ideas is the ability of transition from one concept to another concept whose manipulation in certain ways can yield novel viewpoints. Although, the analogical inference has the ability to generate new ideas through a process of carry-over or adaptation from the source onto the target, the certitude in the format of this process may prohibit the generat...

We introduce and test a crowdsourcing technique for creative problem solving. In total, 1853 workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk produced 468 ideas for solving the 2010 oil spill problem in the Gulf of Mexico. In our technique, one crowd generated initial ideas, another crowd evaluated the creativity of these ideas, and yet another crowd combined pairs of ideas produced by the previous crowd....

Innovation does not mean only creating the new product or services. It is necessary to work out the strategy to lead innovations. Innovators Market Game is a method for creating new ideas by combining existent ideas. In this study, we propose the new way of creating ideas; Rolebased Innovators Market Game. In the game, players take part in the role selected from the real world. For example, jou...

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a firstorder impact on creative innovations– innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across different firms with differen...

In this paper we propose a mechanism generating endogenously the productivity of innovations. We assume that knowledge creation occurs as the innovator obtains new ideas from combinations of existing ideas. The productivity of an innovation is determined by an unobservable intrinsic component as well as by the productivity of the parent ideas and their parents, thus generating a network of spil...