FINANCING PROJECTS THROUGH ENTERPRISE CROWDFUNDING: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF PROPOSAL CHARACTERISTICS ON FUNDING SUCCESS

Crowdfunding is a widespread approach for funding creative projects through an open call for support over the internet. Recently, companies have started to adopt this approach to engage employees into their innovation management processes, calling it enterprise crowdfunding. Employees publish own proposals for innovation projects on an internal crowdfunding site and invest companyendowed money on proposals of others. Although the underlying mechanism remains the same, enterprise crowdfunding exhibits distinct differences to crowdfunding on the internet such as employees investing corporate money rather than their own. With this study, we aim to contribute to a better understanding of funding success in enterprise crowdfunding. For this, we build on data from one of the hitherto largest enterprise crowdfunding implementations run at IBM in 2014. Employees submitted 204 ideas for internal mobile apps and IBM endowed four million US dollars to staff members. We investigate the role of idea and description characteristics for funding success. While idea characteristics such as novelty, relevance and feasibility do not explain proposal success, the degree of elaboration and the extent of follow-on costs do. Description characteristics affect the significant idea characteristics and, thus, indirectly funding success

IDEA ASSESSMENT VIA ENTERPRISE CROWDFUNDING: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF DECISION-MAKING STYLES

Deciding which ideas to pursu is an essential step in innovation management. Organizations increasingly open up their decision-making processes internally and externally by harnessing the collective intelligence of crowds. One mechanism for doing so is enterprise crowdfunding, i.e. inviting employees to propose and support ideas on a crowdfunding platform inside the enterprise. In this paper, we empirically analyze such an enterprise crowdfunding endeavor where hundreds of employees endowed with the discretion to spend company budget proposed dozens of ideas and decided to fund 10 of them. Based on log files and information on the employees´ roles in their enterprise, we investigate the time course of individual decision-making “ i.e., whether they decide rather quickly or more time-lagged which ideas to support Factors that influnce decision-making style include characteristics of proposers, supporters, ideas, supporters´ activity level, and the progress of the trial. From this, we derive suggestions for future research into crowdfunding, and we propose relevant design parameters for using crowdfunding as a tool for internal openness and Enterprise 2.0

Proceedings of the First Karlsruhe Service Summit Workshop - Advances in Service Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2015 (KIT Scientific Reports ; 7692)

Since April 2008 KSRI fosters interdisciplinary research in order to support and advance the progress in the service domain. KSRI brings together academia and industry while serving as a European research hub with respect to service science. For KSS2015 Research Workshop, we invited submissions of theoretical and empirical research dealing with the relevant topics in the context of services including energy, mobility, health care, social collaboration, and web technologies

Teaching Innovation in Interdisciplinary Environments: Toward a Design Thinking Syllabus

An increasing number of universities offer user-centric innovation courses based on the principles of design thinking. Lecturers combine a plethora of design thinking elements in design thinking course syllabi and thereby adopt teaching styles that range from autonomy-supportive to structured. Using a balance between these two teaching styles seems most suitable to optimally engage students and provide guidance through the innovation process. To develop a syllabus for innovation courses, we draw on best practices currently being undertaken in universities worldwide and examine 11 design thinking syllabi from different departments (Engineering, Design, Business, and Information Systems). We identify 17 common and 18 unique elements of design thinking courses and related course materials. Based on our results, we propose a design thinking syllabus that includes suggestions for course objectives, course setup, assignment design, and team composition using a balance between autonomous-support and structural teaching styles

Pain and discomfort following insertion of miniscrews and premolar extractions : A randomized controlled trial

Objective: To investigate and compare the experience of pain and discomfort between insertion of miniscrews and premolar extractions in adolescent patients. Materials and Methods: A total of 80 adolescents were recruited and randomized into groups A and B. Both groups were treated with extraction of the upper first premolars and fixed appliance. Beyond the fixed appliance, patients in group A received anchorage reinforcement with miniscrews. Miniscrews were inserted buccally between the second premolar and first molar when space closure started. Space closure was performed as en masse retraction with immediate loading by 150-g coil springs. Pain, discomfort, impact on daily activities, and functional jaw impairment were assessed with patient-reported questionnaires. Questionnaires were filled in at baseline, the evening after tooth extraction, 1 week after tooth extraction, the evening after screw placement, and 1 week after screw placement. Results: Patients reported significantly lower levels of pain (P < .001) and discomfort (P = .012) after screw placement compared with premolar extractions. The ability to drink (P = .035) and the ability to take a big bite (P < .001) were also significantly less disturbed in the evening after screw placement. During the first week after screw placement, the impact on leisure time activities was significantly lower (P = .015) compared with premolar extractions. Conclusion: The use of miniscrews in adolescents can be recommended from a pain and discomfort perspective

Anchorage reinforcement with miniscrews and molar blocks in adolescents : A randomized controlled trial

Introduction: Anchorage can be reinforced in many ways. Due to the variety of anchorage concepts, only a few general conclusions can be drawn. Therefore, more research is needed to investigate specific concepts with specific indications. The objective of this trial was to compare the anchorage capacities of miniscrews and molar blocks. Methods: This randomized controlled trial was conducted on 2 parallel arms. The trial was conducted at the Public Dental Service Orthodontic Clinic in Gavle, Sweden. Participants were adolescents who needed orthodontic treatment with a fixed appliance, extraction of the maxillary first premolars, and anchorage reinforcement. In group A, miniscrews were used as direct anchorage during space closure. In group B, molar blocks were used as anchorage reinforcement during leveling and alignment and space closure. The primary outcome was loss of anchorage assessed as maxillary first molar movement. Random allocation was maintained with a simple randomization stratified by sex. The observer was blinded to the allocations during the measurements. Results: Forty participants each were randomized to groups A and B. Results were analyzed on an intention-to-treat basis, meaning that all participants, successful or not, were included in the analysis. Group A showed a mean anchorage loss of 1.2 mm during leveling and alignment. During space closure with miniscrews, no significant anchorage loss was found. Group B showed mean anchorage losses of 1.4 mm during leveling and alignment and 2.4 mm during space closure. No serious harms were detected. The first molar rotation, torque, and tipping showed different characteristics during the treatment phases. Conclusion: Miniscrews can be recommended for anchorage reinforcement. Depending on the need for anchorage reinforcement, miniscrews can be inserted at the beginning of treatment or when space closure starts. Molar blocks cannot be recommended for anchorage reinforcement. Protocol: The protocol was published after trial commencement

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Response to: Pain and discomfort following insertion of miniscrews and premolar extractions: A randomized controlled trial. The Angle Orthodontist; 2016;86:891–899. https://dspace.mah.se/handle/2043/2168