Managing Innovation in a Crowd

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open call. At the center of crowdsourcing is a resource allocation problem: there is an abundance of workers but a scarcity of high skills, and an easy task assigned to a high-skill worke...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Mostagir, Mohamed, Ozdaglar, Asuman
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84477