PhD Dissertation Proposal by LIAW Shao Yi | Recombinant Creativity: Idea Generation, Network Formation, and Innovation Outcomes

Recombinant Creativity: Idea Generation, Network Formation, and Innovation Outcomes

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This dissertation examines recombinant creativity across cultural production and crowdsourced innovation platforms, focusing on how ideas are generated, collaboratively shaped, and strategically combined to drive innovation. Motivated by the growing importance of idea recombination in film and media industries, the first study investigates how new and existing ideas are recombined to form innovative creative products and how these recombinations affect innovation success. The second study then analyzes how new ideas emerge from the evolving structure and content of idea networks via, tracing how collaborative contributions from both ideators and the crowd shape the development, diversity, and connectivity of ideas on crowdsourcing innovation platforms . Finally, the third study examines how platform design, specifically, identity disclosure in voting systems, affects users’ voting decisions and ideators’ editing and interaction behaviors. Together, these studies provide a comprehensive understanding of recombinant creativity across the multi-stage process of cultural production and knowledge creation, offering theoretical and practical insights for creative industries, platform designers, and innovation researchers.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Shao Yi LIAW is a Ph.D. candidate majoring in Information Systems and Management at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, supervised by Associate Professor Qian TANG. Her research interests include product innovation and knowledge networks. Her work has appeared in The Workshop on E-Business amongst others.