An Idea Ontology for Innovation Management
- ISSN: 15526283
- DOI: 10.4018/jswis.2009100101
Abstract
Exchanging and analyzing ideas across different software tools and repositories is needed to implement the concepts of open innovation and holistic innovation management. However, a precise and formal definition for the concept of an idea is hard to obtain. In this paper, the authors introduce an ontology to represent ideas. This ontology provides a common language to foster interoperability between tools and to support the idea life cycle. Through the use of an ontology, additional benefits like semantic reasoning and automatic analysis become available. Our proposed ontology captures both a core idea concept that covers the 'heart of the idea' and further concepts to support collaborative idea development, including rating, discussing, tagging, and grouping ideas. This modular approach allows the idea ontology to be complemented by additional concepts like customized evaluation methods. The authors present a case study that demonstrates how the ontology can be used to achieve interoperability between innovation tools and to answer questions relevant for innovation managers that demonstrate the advantages of semantic reasoning.
An Idea Ontology for Innovation Management
Running head: AN IDEA
ONTOLOGY FOR INNOVATION
MANAGEMENT 1
Running head: AN IDEA ONTOLOGY FOR INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
An Idea Ontology for Innovation Management*
Christoph Riedla, Norman Mayb, Jan Finzenc, Stephan Statheld,
Viktor Kaufmanb, and Helmut Krcmara
aTechnische Universität München, bSAP CEC Karlsruhe, cFraunhofer IAO, dFZI
Author Note
This research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
under the promotional reference 01MQ07012, 01MQ07017, 01MQ07019, and 01MQ07024 and
the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 01IA08001A. The
responsibility for this publication lies with the authors.
This paper has been published in the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information
Systems (IJSWIS).
Please cite as: Riedl, C.; May, N.; Finzen, J.; Stathel, S.; Kaufman, V. & Krcmar, H. An Idea
Ontology for Innovation Management. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information
Systems, 2009, 5(4), 1-18.
Running head: AN IDEA
ONTOLOGY FOR INNOVATION
MANAGEMENT 2
Abstract
Exchanging and analyzing ideas across different software tools and repositories is needed to
implement the concepts of open innovation and holistic innovation management. However, a
precise and formal definition for the concept of an idea is hard to obtain. In this paper, we
introduce an ontology to represent ideas. This ontology provides a common language to foster
interoperability between tools and to support the idea life cycle. Through the use of an ontology
additional benefits like semantic reasoning and automatic analysis become available. Our
proposed ontology captures both a core idea concept that covers the ‘heart of the idea’ and
further concepts to support collaborative idea development, including rating, discussing, tagging,
and grouping ideas. This modular approach allows the idea ontology to be complemented by
additional concepts like customized evaluation methods. We present a case study that
demonstrates how the ontology can be used to achieve interoperability between innovation tools
and to answer questions relevant for innovation managers that demonstrate the advantages of
semantic reasoning.
Keywords: Innovation management, ontology, semantic web, open innovation,
integration, creativity
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