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Innovation Communities Teamworking of Key Persons - A Success Factor in Radical Innovation, Klaus Fichter and Severin Beucker (Eds.). Berlin: New York: Springer, 2012

Like InnoCentive, NineSigma is an open Innovation service provider.

From About page: "InnoCentive is the open innovation and crowdsourcing pioneer that enables organizations to solve their key problems by connecting them to diverse sources of innovation including employees, customers, partners, and the world's largest problem solving marketplace." Innocentive works with corporations, non profits, government, etc. *See Resources section for white paper and webinar.

By Haydn Shaughnessy on Innovation Management. Published October 2010. "This major case study from Innovation Management "How to Build Innovation Communities" looks at the practical steps of one innovation community, in the mobile sector. The initiative captured over 1,000 new ideas, 29 going through to implementation, in its first six months online, and galvanised wider community activity and loyalty for the company. The document outlines best practice case in innovation community development..."

The term ideagora is used as the space for sharing ideas. The ideagora should operate as an ecosystem, one that allows processes to evolve organically. (InnoCentive and NineSigma mentioned in this article.)

By Frank Mattes, on Innovation Management. June 22, 2011.This article, and others offered on the site, feature for profit organizations. "R&D-driven open innovation is a powerful lever for enhancing the firm's innovativeness since it multiplies the firm's R&D resources. Two examples may highlight the point: Procter&Gamble has 9,000 people employed in its various R&D units - and estimates the global number of experts in its technology fields to be two million. And Merck Inc. estimates that although it is a global leader in its field it produces only one percent of the relevant global patents every year. Both of these firms see open innovation as an effective way for engaging the innovative potential of the thousands of brilliant minds outside the firm."

This is written as a guide for starting an open innovation community. At the beginning, it lists links to a number of innovation communities, including Dow Chemical 'Hewlett Packard, and Nokia, among others.