The goal of this initiative is to better understand the distributed innovation process within and across organizations. Distributed innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas, tasks, or procedures by employees in different geographic locations.
It is important that organizations striving to build capabilities for a distributed innovation process assess their current progress in order to have a baseline for comparison against in the future. Sign Up!
The abstract from the NSF proposal describes the project in more detail, and you can learn more about the staff who support the research. Additional questions may be answered in the FAQ.