Motivating participation in online innovation communities

Authors:
Mercedes Paulini;Mary Lou Maher;Paul Murty
Affiliations:
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, 148 City Rd., Chippendale, 2120, Australia;Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, 148 City Rd., Chippendale, 2120, Australia;Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, 148 City Rd., Chippendale, 2120, Australia
Venue:
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Year:
2014

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Abstract

Understanding what motivates participation in online innovation communities is now a high priority given the recent interest in crowdsourcing as an approach to increasing diversity and creativity in innovation. This article reports on the results of a survey of participants in an online innovation community to characterise and find correlations between motivation and participation styles. An analysis of the survey results show: the majority of participants were contributors or collaborators, not readers or leaders; reasons for joining collective innovation communities can be different to the reason for continuing to participate; primary motivations for participation are fun and challenge; intrinsic motivations rated higher than extrinsic; and the participants that are passionate about the online community are either new members, six months.