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This talk from Timothy S. Simcoe unpacks the idea selection process using a unique dataset from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a voluntary organization that develops protocols for managing internet infrastructure.

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In this talk, Soomi examines one type of outsourcing: the “blackboxing” of knowledge production. Using the setting of structural biology, she finds that while the arrival of a blackboxing technology increased the quantity of innovation, it also led to knowledge workers herding around solving similar, less impactful problems.

A long tradition in strategy and innovation research asserts that data-driven organizations—in which new-product investment decisions are based on quantitative evidence of market demand—excel at incremental innovation, but unintentionally allocate resources away from less-measurable breakthrough innovations. Questioning this reasoning, in this talk, Ryan distinguishes the magnitude of an organization’s use of quantitative analysis from the epistemic plasticity of its organizational culture (the extent to which it uses non-quantitative analyses).