Motivating Innovation

Motivating Innovation

Motivating innovation is an important concern in many incentive problems. For example, shareholders of large corporations often need to motivate managers to pursue more innovative business strategies. This paper shows that the optimal incentive scheme that motivates innovation exhibits substantial tolerance (or even reward) for early failure and reward for long-term success. Moreover, commitmen...

Motivating participation in online innovation communities

Understanding what motivates participation in online innovation communities is now possible given the recent explosion of opportunities for joining such communities. This article reports on the results of a survey of participants in a specific online innovation community to characterise and find correlations between motivation and participation styles. An analysis of the survey results show: th...

Motivating People with Badges

eWeb is transforming our lives: it is increasingly where people communicate with their friends, nd employment, make purchases, look for romantic partners, and stay in touch with the world. As the new platforms for daily life, digital social systems deliver billions of dollars of value to the economy and a huge amount of social capital to society. Despite their importance, however, these system...

Motivating lazy guards

Motivating Calculus with Biology

Applications of calculus concepts to real, data-driven biology problems provide students with a glimpse of the “unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in providing fundamental insights into biological processes. These applicaitons can motivate key calculus concepts when choosen appropriately, provide a vehicle that links concepts throughout a calculus course. To illustrate this themetic dev...