Abstract:
Idea Management Systems are platforms often used for col-
lecting ideas from large communities. In relation to large
quantities of data those systems gather, one of the problems
is the difficulty to accurately depict the distinctive features
of ideas in a rapid manner and use them for judgement of
proposed innovations. The research described in this paper
aims to solve this problem by introducing annotation of ideas
with a domain independent taxonomy that describes various
characteristics of ideas. To build the taxonomy, we refer to
the well known concepts of Innovation Management research
and align them with the reality of Idea Management Systems.
Further, we propose to transform taxonomy annotations into
new metrics that allow the comparison of ideas or entire idea
datasets. To support our position, we present a sample ex-
periment with four major datasets to detect similarities and
dissimilarities using the proposed Gi2MO Types taxonomy
and metrics