A knowledge-based platform for managing innovative software projects

Abstract

Innovation is one of the keys to success in the business world. More concretely, open innovation is gaining momentum so different tools for supporting the collaboration between experts and developers in this field are needed. On the other hand, ontologies and semantic technologies provide a consistent and reliable means to represent and aggregate knowledge from different sources. In this paper, an open innovation platform based on social networks and semantic web technologies to assist in managing innovative software projects is proposed. The platform takes advantage of semantic information that can be classified and annotated by means of domain ontologies. The behaviour of the system has been illustrated through a use case scenario in the software development domain.