OUTLAW COMMUNITY INNOVATIONS

Outlaw Community Innovations

Recent studies of outlaw communities provide qualitative evidence of their existence and the organisation of the underlying innovation processes. We provide descriptive results from a large scale survey of two online outlaw communities focussing on Microsoft’s XBox. In line with previous findings, we identify two types of participants in outlaw communities user innovators and adopters. Based on...

The Entrepreneurial Outlaw

Outlaw. The Autobiography of a Soviet Waif

Harvill Press. 16/'. This is a terrible book, illuminating in its psychological aspects and the light it throws upon the workings of the immature mind when all external moral motives have been removed or profoundly inhibited. The author was a Soviet waif in the years between 1930 and the outbreak of the Second World War, motherless from infancy but gently and carefully nurtured by a kindly nurs...

Community engineering for innovations: the ideas competition as a method to nurture a virtual community for innovations

‘Crowdsourcing’ is currently one of the most discussed key words within the open innovation community. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the ‘collective brain’ to broaden the scope of ‘open R&D’. Based on a literature review in the fields of Community Building and Innovation Management, this work develops an integrated framework...

Outlaw Distributions and Locally Decodable Codes

Locally decodable codes (LDCs) are error correcting codes that allow for decoding of a single message bit using a small number of queries to a corrupted encoding. Despite decades of study, the optimal trade-off between query complexity and codeword length is far from understood. In this work, we give a new characterization of LDCs using distributions over Boolean functions whose expectation is ...