FabCity-Citizen: Fab City: Decentralized Digital Innovation Processes for Urban Value Creation - Citizen Innovation

Christina Raasch

The subproject investigates how the population can best be involved in decentralized value creation. To this end, several work packages will analyze how the population can be addressed and motivated to contribute as a source of the most innovative and useful ideas possible (ideation), how they can be involved in the evaluation of the ideas submitted (evaluation), and finally how they can participate in the implementation in the Fab Lab (implementation). These analyses are based on primary data collected at various points in time as part of the FabCity project. Thus, the progress of the project will be closely monitored with the aim of developing specific generalizable insights for the future of decentralized urban value creation.
How can citizens be included in the generation of ideas? This project study how citizens help create ideas (Ideation), evaluate others' ideas (Evaluation), and implement those ideas judged best (Implementation). It accompanies the FabCity innovation challenges and aim to expand our understanding of decetralized digital innovation processes. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Defense (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung BMVg).

This project accompany the FabCity innovation challenges and and aim to expand our understanding of decetralized digital innovation processes. We examine the role of citizens as source of innovation and value creation. We study three stages of these challenges: The creation of ideas (Ideation), their assessment (Evaluation) and their realization (Implementation). We seek answers to the following questions: (1) How can citizens be included in the generation of ideas? In particular, how does the way in which citizens are adressed influence their participation? (2) How do citizens evaluation innovative ideas? Specifically, what factors - besides idea quality - influence their assessments? (3) How do idea creators use the physical FabCity infrastructure to implement their ideas? To this end, we collect primary data at different stages of the FabCity Project, most importantly during innovation challenges that involve citizens as contributors and evaluators of ideas. Overall, this project seeks to contribute to research in the areas of innovation communities, crowdsourcing, and idea evaluation.