I-Corps: Knowledge Markets

提议的活动是由Marshall Van Alstyne （PI）、davwei Shen（创业领导）和Robert Lloyd（导师）组成的团队完成I-Corp计划。Van Alastyne和Shen基于先前的NSF grant 0925004研究了知识市场对企业内部信息共享和工人生产率的影响。实证研究表明，为劳动者提供知识市场对生产率有较大的正向影响。他们还创建了物物交换，这是一个知识市场的原型，已经成功地在几所大学的课堂环境中使用，以促进学生的学习。其智力贡献在于运用经济理论优化众包。在I-Corp项目的过程中，Van Alstyne、Shen和Lloyd将根据早期客户反馈来验证公司的商业模式，同时在成功的学术原型的基础上完成商业产品原型。与澳大利亚联邦银行的原型客户关系已经建立，与其他潜在企业客户的讨论正在进行中。50多年来，组织一直在通过知识共享寻求收益，实现了建议箱、内部网、共享驱动器以及现在的社会wiki。尽管在全球进行了大量投资，但企业在吸引参与、有效产生新想法以及准确评估这些想法方面一直存在困难。成功执行这些任务的技术具有广泛增加信息访问和显著提高商业生产力的潜力。基于对一家日本银行的实证研究，该团队发现，知识市场的使用每增加一个标准差，工人的生产率就会提高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小组的工具。经济学家普遍认为，知识生产是工人生产率的一个关键因素，而工人生产率又是工资和经济增长的主要推动力。如果该团队能够大规模复制这些结果的一小部分，它可能会对美国和世界经济福利产生巨大的积极影响。

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.