12 Books on Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation - Part 3
This is the 3th part of our series on the best books about crowdsourcing and open innovation. As I probably forgot some books, the floor is yours to suggest other key readings through the comment function below the post. The current list of 12 books can be found here. I look forward to your suggestions!
The last 4 books:
- Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
- by Ron Goldman, Richard P. Gabriel
It’s a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community that reaches beyond the barriers of the business.
— - The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
- by Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler shows us how the Internet enables new commons-based methods for producing goods, remaking culture, and participating in public life.
Downloadable for free: here
— - Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
- by Keith Sawyer
A pioneering expert on creativity and innovation shows the power of collaboration for individual organizational creativity.
— - The Wisdom of Crowds
- by James Surowiecki
While our culture generally trusts experts and distrusts the wisdom of the masses, New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki argues that under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.
Other parts of the series:
- 12 Books on Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation - Part 1
- 12 Books on Crowdsourcing & Open Innovation - Part 2
- Complete List
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