Track: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Collaboration Systems for Open Innovation

The open innovation paradigm suggests that organizations increasingly need to team up with other organizations and customers in developing and refining ideas, services and products. Hitherto, research on IT and open innovation has mainly explored how open innovation practices can stimulate the development of novel technologies. However, little research has studied how information technologies can support open innovation practices. For example, the networked nature of open innovation suggests that collaboration systems can support innovation practices. In this minitrack, we welcome papers that explore how various collaboration systems can enable and support open innovation in inter-organizational and intra-organizational settings, and in user and consumer networks.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Collaboration systems and open innovation
* Social software and open innovation
* IT and inter-organizational innovation
* IT and intra-organizational innovation
* IT and consumer innovation networks
* IT and user innovation networks
* Management of IT for open innovation
* Design, application and evaluation of IT for open innovation
* Theoretical foundations, methodological issues and practical approaches
 

The best papers will be offered to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations.


Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Stefan Hrastinski (Primary Contact)
Department of Information Science
Uppsala University
PO Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46-18-471-11-45
Fax: +46-18- 471-78-67
Email: stefan.hrastinski@dis.uu.se


Mats Edenius
Swedish IT-User Centre
Uppsala University
PO Box 337, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46-704-25-07-62
Fax: +46-18-51-19-25
Email: mats.edenius@nita.uu.se


Niklas Z. Kviselius
Center for Information and Communication Research
Department of Marketing and Strategy
Stockholm School of Economics
PO Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-736-95-58
Email: niklas.kviselius@hhs.se