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What is Informational Competencies

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in the Contemporary Knowledge-Based Global Economy
Set of competencies, generally linked to labor, acquired thanks to the availability of large flows of information through the use of new technologies.
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Strategic Crowdsourcing as an Emerging Form of Global Entrepreneurship
Anna Szopa (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and Katarzyna Dorota Kopeć (Tischner European University in Krakow, Poland)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8798-1.ch011
Abstract
Entrepreneurs are looking for effective ways to internationalize their business ideas. Online crowdsourcing platforms enable them to access vast resources held by geographically scattered individuals with different backgrounds who are outside an organization's boundaries. Entrepreneurs leverage knowledge and services from a crowd (an undefined group of web users) through an open online call for solution. Presented analysis will help to understand better the relationship between crowdsourcing business model and global entrepreneurship. Crowdsourcing process goes beyond achieving an efficiency-driven economy stage. The new venture reflects better competitiveness and economic-development performance.
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