Crowdsourcing
From CrowdSociety
Crowdsourcing describes the Outsourcing of traditionally internal subtasks to voluntary users, for example on the internet. It is often used by companies, which invites the crowd to take part in special parts of the innovation- or production-process. The collective knowledge of the crowd is used to solve problems in research and development.
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Open Innovation
OpenInnovation means the process of innovation within organisations is open and the knowledge and skills of the crowd are used to optimize the innovation potential. The open-innovation-concept describes the functional use of the in- and out-going knowledge to improve innovation.
Microtasking
Crowdtesting
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding See also: Motivations of Crowdfunding
