Prototyping is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts.
A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design …

Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on open innovation by firms to keep pace
with the growing intricacy of products and services and the ever changing needs of the …

The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities
for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this …

Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging
innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to …

Extreme value theory is unique as a statistical discipline in that it develops techniques and
models for describing the unusual rather than the usual. As an abstract study of random …

Generating ideas for new products used to be the exclusive domain of marketers, engineers,
and/or designers. Users have only recently been recognized as an alternative source of new …

In an innovation contest, a firm (the seeker) facing an innovation-related problem (eg, a
technical R&D problem) posts this problem to a population of independent agents (the …

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has
attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome …

In a wide variety of settings, organizations generate a number of possible solutions to a
problem—ideas—and then select a few for further development. We examine the …

Communication and information technologies are adding new capabilities for rapid and
inexpensive customer input to all stages of the product development (PD) process. In this …