BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar by Prof. Henry Sauermann\, ESMT Berlin DTSTART:20200511T120000 DTEND:20200511T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T224300Z UID:aac8d4833b03168cdbf5111f67a727742c9e850d9f93219276461fad CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Henry Sauermann\, ESMT Berlin\n"What's the problem? Crow dsourcing research questions in science"\n\nPlease note that the seminar w ill be given via Zoom: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/97973936658 \n\n \nAbstract \nScientific research has for a long time been performed by professional s cientists in a distinct institutional context. Recently\, however\, scient ists have started to cross institutional boundaries by involving the gener al public (the crowd) directly in research. This crowd involvement tends t o be confined to empirical stages of research process (e.g.\, data collect ion and processing) and it is not clear whether the crowd can also contrib ute to conceptual stages of the research process\, in particular the formu lation of research questions (RQs). Drawing on prior literature on problem solving\, we first develop a framework that ties dimensions of research q uestion quality to different types of prior knowledge. We also discuss pot ential benefits and challenges of involving the crowd in RQ formulation an d theorize how knowledge interventions affect RQ quality. We then use data from a field experiment in the medical sciences to explore features of re search questions generated by the crowd and to test the effectiveness of k nowledge interventions. Our results show that the crowd can generate high- quality research questions that differ in fundamental ways from those typi cally produced by professional scientists. More importantly\, we show that the quality of crowd-generated RQs can be improved through simple interve ntions that provide crowd members with scientific field and process knowle dge they are otherwise lacking. We discuss contributions to the literature s on the organization of science\, distributed knowledge production\, and crowdsourcing\n\nAuthors\n\nSusanne Beck \nLudwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft\ , Open Innovation in Science Center\nCopenhagen Business School\n \nTiare -Maria Brasseur\nLudwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft\, Open Innovation in Scienc e Center\nCopenhagen Business School\n \nMarion Poetz \nCopenhagen Busin ess School
\nLudwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft\, Open Innovation in Science Center\n \nHenry Sauermann\nEuropean School of Management and Technology\ , Berlin\n  LOCATION:Zoom meeting https://epfl.zoom.us/j/97973936658 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR