Ideas bank
An ideas bank is a widely available shared resource, usually a website, where people post, exchange, discuss, and polish new ideas. Some ideas banks are used to develop new inventions or technologies. Many corporations have installed internal ideas banks to gather the input from their employees and improve their ideation process. Some ideas banks employ a voting system to estimate an idea's value. In some cases, ideas banks can be more humor-oriented than their serious counterparts. The underlying theory of an ideas bank is that if a large group of people collaborate on a project or the development of an idea that eventually said project or idea will reach perfection in the eyes of those who worked on it.[citation needed][1]
Many ideas banks are provided as free of charge, or set around certain companies in general to work out new inventions.[2] Although ideas are provided by a community of people, problems can arise when people take the ideas from the site and begin developing them.[3] There is no possible way to prove that the idea on the ideas bank was original and not taken from something else.
Examples
- As an open ideas bank project, Yle Kipinä, was launched to increase public's involvement in how the Finnish media tax is spent.
- As part of the adoption of enterprise social software, many companies have decided to use such a portal to allow their employees (on their intra-net) or their customers (on the internet) to collaborate in the process of raising new ideas.
- Idea management software has the sole purpose of raising new ideas—for new products, process improvements, employee welfare or any other corporate use.
- Although not necessarily ideas banks per se, by allowing anyone to edit, wikis allow a group of people to work on information collaboratively. This collaborative writing can continue until all are satisfied with the article or piece of writing, but more often than not contributions continue as visitors add information, improve what is already there, and remove irrelevant or incorrect information.
- Halfbakery is an example of a slightly less serious ideas bank. Users submit ideas, often jokingly, which are then commented on, often jokingly, by other users.
- The Global Ideas Bank is the opposite of Halfbakery in that ideas are proposed seriously, and in some cases actually implemented. It started as a group of inventors in 1985 and became a large organization over several years until it was put online with its current name in 1995.
- Founded in London in 2000, Idea a Day solicits submissions of original ideas from around the world, edits and publishes one considered example every day. A book, The Big Idea Book, comprising 500 of the best ideas, was published by Wiley in 2003.
- In Ecuador, the National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Innovation and Technology, launched its own Idea Bank[4] to boost innovation and help local entrepreneurs get some funding and resources. They also posted a set of open source hardware technologies so everybody can use them.
- Betterific gives consumers a platform to offer feedback on how to improve their favorite products and companies[5] and to post their ideas for new products and services. The site's aim is to crowdsource innovation.
- Idea Drop is an idea management software that allows large corporations to collect, develop and manage ideas from their stakeholders. It also allows organisations to share specific challenges and invite employee's ideas on how to solve them.[6]
- President of Pakistan announced National Idea Bank in February 2021 [7]
- Howitcouldbedifferent.org is a website to easily see, share, and suggest ideas. The site's aim is to make it easier to access ideas and spread innovation.[8]
- IdeaGist is an idea collection and development platform that helps communities in developing ideas from concept to MVP. IdeaGist is the platform used by National Idea Bank Pakistan.[9]
See also
- Crowdsourcing
- Ideation (creative process)
- Q&A website
- Smart mobs
- TED, a conference for "ideas worth spreading".
- The Wisdom of Crowds
References
- ↑ Sandstrom, C., & Bjork, J. (2010). Idea management systems for a changing innovation landscape. International Journal of Product Development, 11(3-4), 310-324.
- ↑ See the definition for Open Source Hardware from the Open Source Hardware Association, http://www.oshwa.org/definition/ Archived 2016-04-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Dorta, T., Perez, E., & Lesage, A. (2008). The ideation gap:: hybrid tools, design flow and practice. Design studies, 29(2), 121-141.
- ↑ "El potencial innovador del país se concentra en un 'Banco de Ideas'" Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
- ↑ "Betterific Is Like Reddit for Customer Feedback". Mashable. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ↑ "Idea Drop". Archived from the original on 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hassan, Syed (February 2021). "innovation cum tech fastest way to emerge as knowledge-economy". Pakistan Observer.
- ↑ How it could be different
- ↑ "Home". National Idea Bank Pakistan. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
External links
- Interautonomy -- Self-Sustainability strategies for development initiatives
- Via Interaxion -- Social development solutions hub
- Taylor, William C. (2006-03-26). "Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
- Idea generation
- IdeaMill Idea Bank
- Ecuadorian Idea Bank
- Drawing Ideas Generator
- National Idea Bank, Pakistan
- How it could be different
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