• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Managing Unsolicited Ideas for R&D
  • Contributor: Alexy, Oliver; Criscuolo, Paola; Salter, Ammon
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2012
  • Published in: California Management Review, 54 (2012) 3, Seite 116-139
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2012.54.3.116
  • ISSN: 0008-1256; 2162-8564
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  • Description: Existing academic and popular literature suggests that unsolicited ideas, the non-contractual and voluntary submission of innovation-related information from external sources to the firm, offer the promise of a bountiful and low-cost tool to sustain and extend firms' R&D efforts. Yet, in practice, many organizations find it difficult to deal with unsolicited ideas because of high quantity, low quality, and the need to transfer IP ownership. This article identifies a range of practices that allow organizations to meet these challenges and therefore realize some of the potential of unsolicited ideas for R&D.