Affiliations: [a] Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden | [b] Swedish ICT Viktoria and University of Borås,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Stockholm
University, Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Innovation contests are becoming popular instruments for stimulating
development of digital services using open data. However, experience indicates
that only a limited number of the results developed during these events become
viable digital services attracting a significant user base. To further deepen
our understanding of the role, design and function of innovation contests in
open data markets, we conducted a survey of the websites of 33 digital
innovation contests. The results of the survey show that organizers design
digital innovation contests to function as intermediaries for open data
innovation. By analyzing the activities performed by organizers we found
several examples of how innovation contests support the participants in
designing, implementing and providing services after the contests are
concluded. We contribute with a key design element and attributes for the
post-contest process of digital innovation contests, which adds to existing key
design elements. For future research we suggest to further study open data
markets and the intermediary role of digital innovation contests. Moreover we
propose to develop guidelines and tools for organizers of digital innovation
contests to design contests that better meet the needs of a particular open
data market.
Keywords: Innovation contest, open innovation, open data, open data market, innovation system
