Fostering innovation through collective intelligence: a literature review

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, Collective intelligence (CI) arose as a social phenomenon to assist organizations in managing future uncertainty. It pushes a broad diverse group to come up with new solutions that outperform those uncovered within the organization itself. Accordingly, CI has been widely acknowledged as a means to foster innovation, and develop, and sustain an organization's creative potential. This paper aims to conduct a literature review to examine the existing body of literature regarding the ways collective intelligence improves innovation. The findings emphasized the importance of collective intelligence in fueling a firm’s knowledge and innovation in all of its forms to overcome public and private organizational challenges. Furthermore, our review underlined the mediating role of information technology in taking full advantage of collective intelligence via digital platforms. In addition, our analysis pointed out the multifaceted traits of collective intelligence as reflected in the literature under several terms, including crowdsourcing. Our research revealed several gaps in the current literature, including insufficient analysis and modeling of the relationship between the two concepts. Finally, we concluded our paper by identifying the limits of our research and suggesting avenues for future studies on collective intelligence and innovation.

Contribution of graph theory to the understanding of social dynamics

“…La detección y análisis de estos nodos críticos mediante algoritmos de centralidad y detección de comunidades permite proponer estrategias más efectivas para la intervención social y la implementación de políticas públicas dirigidas (Mora Pontiluis et al, 2023). Sin embargo, los textos consultados destacan la necesidad de ajuste temporal, especialmente en contextos de caducidad acelerada de tendencias, propensión a la innovación o confluencia sociodemográfica diversa (Alomia-Padilla et al, 2023;Ibrahimi et al, 2023).…”

Hidden knowledge networks: Influence of invisible colleges on scientific research

“…Además de redes, son concebidos como comunidades, grupos o conjuntos de relaciones que aparecen con mayor o menor fuerza en un entramado mayor de relaciones profesionales (Borges Machín & González Bravo, 2022;Kosmarski & Gordiychuk, 2020;Walsh & Rowe, 2023). Otra arista que ha ganado relevancia es que, aunque tradicionalmente vistos como espacios académicos para la producción de conocimientos o redes de negocios, en la actualidad ambas líneas convergen y resultan en apoyos híbridos, por lo que los "Colegios Invisibles" van más allá los alcances limitados que ambos tipos de relaciones podían ofrecer (Ibrahimi et al, 2023;Sharma et al, 2022).…”