GENIE

A company's ability to innovate depends to a large extent on integrating its customers and other value creation partners into innovation management. Because of their product experience and understanding of the product, value creation partners have a great deal of innovation potential that has often not yet been tapped. In other industries, a wide variety of value creation partners are already actively involved in shaping products. However, this idea has hardly gained acceptance in the software industry to date, although the open source example confirms the great potential.

The basic idea of the project is the creation of communities whose members are recruited from value creation partners and stakeholders of a software company. The common goal of these communities is to generate innovation ideas on a central Internet platform and to collectively condense them into concrete innovation projects and, ideally, to develop prototypes and business plans from them. This will open up the innovation management of software companies to the outside world, provide consistent support through suitable methods, models and tools, and thus exploit innovation potential "out-of-the-box".

From a methodological perspective, the GENIE project develops concepts and mechanisms for creating innovation communities as well as suitable management methods and incentive concepts for implementing their goals. From a technical perspective, a needs-based IT platform with appropriate collaboration and interaction tools is being developed. In addition to this development, the piloting of the overall concept in three different application scenarios represents a central component of the iterative learning and interdisciplinary GENIE research approach.

For software companies:

• Systematization of the innovation management of software companies
• Leveraging the innovation potential of customers and other value-added partners
• Improving the innovation capability of software companies

For research:

• Inductive generation and testing of novel approaches, methods and tools in the spirit of the open innovation idea

• Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Center for Leading Innovation & Cooperation (CLIC), Prof. Dr. K. Möslein
• University of the Federal Armed Forces, Faculty of Computer Science, Institute for Software Technology, Prof. Dr. M. Koch
• Hyve AG, Munich
• Gate - Garchinger Technology and Start-up Center GmbH

Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the project management of DLR

http://www.projekt-genie.dehttp://www.krebsgemeinschaft.de/

Project description TUM - Technical University of Munich

• Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister