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.

拟议的活动是由 Marshall Van Alstyne（PI）、Dawei Shen（创业负责人）和 Robert Lloyd（导师）团队完成的 I-Corp 项目。根据之前的 NSF 拨款 0925004，Van Alastyne 和 Shen 研究了知识市场对企业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以对生产力产生巨大的积极影响。他们还创建了 Barter，这是一个原型知识市场，已成功应用于多所大学的课堂环境中，以促进学生的学习。智力贡献是利用经济理论来优化众包。 在 I-Corp 项目的过程中，Van Alstyne、Shen 和 Lloyd 将根据早期客户反馈验证公司的商业模式，同时根据成功的学术原型完成原型商业产品。与澳大利亚联邦银行的原型客户关系已经建立，并且正在与其他潜在企业客户进行讨论。 50 多年来，各组织一直通过知识共享寻求收益，实施意见箱、内联网、共享驱动器以及现在的社交维基。尽管在全球范围内进行了大量投资，但企业仍难以吸引参与、有效产生新想法并准确评估这些想法。成功执行这些任务的技术有可能广泛增加信息访问并显着提高商业生产力。根据对一家日本银行的实证研究，该团队发现，知识市场使用量每增加一个标准差，员工的生产率就会提高 10%。美国国家经济研究局和欧洲经济协会对这些结果进行了同行评审。世界银行也要求使用该团队的工具。经济学家普遍认为，知识生产是工人生产力的关键因素，而工人生产力又是工资和经济增长的主要驱动力。如果该团队能够大规模复制这些结果中的一小部分，那么它可能会对美国和世界的经济福祉产生巨大的积极影响。