I-Corps: Knowledge Markets

I-Corps：知识市场

• 批准号: 1217250
• 负责人: Marshall Van Alstyne
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1217250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Knowledge; Markets

The proposed activity is the completion of the I-Corp program by the team of Marshall Van Alstyne (PI), Dawei Shen (entrepreneurial lead), and Robert Lloyd (mentor). Based on prior NSF grant 0925004, Van Alastyne and Shen have studied effects of knowledge markets on information sharing and worker productivity within firms. Empirical research suggests that provision of knowledge markets to workers can have large positive effects on the productivity. They have also created Barter, a prototype knowledge market that has been successfully used in classroom settings at several universities to enhance student learning. The intellectual contribution is to use economic theory to optimize crowdsourcing. Over the course of the I-Corp program, Van Alstyne, Shen, and Lloyd will validate the company business model in light of early customer feedback while completing a prototype commercial product based on the successful academic prototype. A prototype customer relationship with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has already been established and discussions are underway with other potential enterprise customers.Organizations have sought gains through knowledge sharing for more than 50 years, implementing suggestion boxes, intranets, share drives, and now social wikis. Despite significant global investments, firms have had difficulty coaxing participation, efficiently generating new ideas, and accurately valuing those ideas. Techniques to successfully perform these tasks have the potential to broadly increase information access and dramatically increase commercial productivity. Based on an empirical study of a Japanese bank, the team found that one standard deviation increase in use of a knowledge market improved worker productivity by 10%. The National Bureau of Economic Research and European Economic Association peer reviewed these results. The World Bank has also asked to use the team's tools. Economists broadly argue that knowledge production is a key factor in worker productivity, which in turn is a major driver of wages and economic growth. If the team can replicate even a small portion of these results on a large scale, it could have an enormous positive impact on US and world economic welfare.

拟议的活动是Marshall Van Alstyne（PI），Dawei Shen（企业家负责人）和Robert Lloyd（Mentor）团队完成了I-CORP计划。基于先前的NSF赠款0925004，Van Alastyne和Shen研究了知识市场对公司内部信息共享和工人生产力的影响。实证研究表明，向工人提供知识市场可能会对生产率产生巨大的积极影响。他们还创建了易货币，这是一个原型知识市场，在几所大学的课堂环境中已成功使用，以增强学生学习。智力贡献是利用经济理论来优化众包。 在I-CORP计划的过程中，Van Alstyne，Shen和Lloyd将根据早期客户的反馈来验证公司业务模型，同时根据成功的学术原型完成原型商业产品。与澳大利亚英联邦银行建立了原型客户关系，并正在与其他潜在企业客户进行讨论。组织已通过知识共享寻求50多年的收益，实施建议盒，Intranet，共享驱动器，现在是社交Wikis。尽管全球投资大量投资，但公司还是很难哄骗参与，有效地产生了新的想法，并准确评估了这些想法。成功执行这些任务的技术有可能广泛提高信息访问并大大提高商业生产率。基于对日本银行的实证研究，该团队发现，使用知识市场的一种标准偏差提高了工人的生产率10％。全国经济研究局和欧洲经济协会同行审查了这些结果。世界银行还要求使用团队的工具。经济学家广泛地认为，知识生产是工人生产率的关键因素，这反过来又是工资和经济增长的主要驱动力。如果团队甚至可以大规模复制这些结果的一小部分，那么它可能会对美国和世界经济福利产生巨大的积极影响。