Research on factors influencing the performance of innovation contest based on network community

Abstract

Abstract: As a new kind of open innovation, innovation contest based on network community has drawn extensiveattention. This research examines how the factors affect the performance of innovation contest by moderated multiple regression analysis of 524 innovation contests from Taskcn.com, and the results suggest that (1) the higher the amount of reward, the more solvers will participate, and the longer the contest duration, the more the solutions and the rates of completion will be; (2)too much detailed task description will reduce the performance of innovation contest;(3) reward mechanism plays a moderating role to the impact factors of the innovation contest performance.

Key words: innovation contest, network community, reward mechanism, performance

CLC Number:

F272.3

Wang Liwei, Tian Jian, Liu Dewen. Research on factors influencing the performance of innovation contest based on network community[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(2): 17-24.

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