Selective vs Integrative Crowdsourcing

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Selective Crowdsourcing’ by (Schenk & Guittard 2011). The company initiating the process of Crowdsourcing has to choose one solution from all solutions provided by the crowd. Selective Crowdsourcing in general implies a winner takes it all mechanism where only the creator of the winning solution is rewarded."

The goal of Integrative Crowdsourcing is to create a complete solution by integrating complementary contributions from the crowd. An important aspect of integrative crowdsourcing is the definition of clear interfaces among single complementary contributions." (http://berlinsymposium.org/sites/berlinsymposium.org/files/crowdsourcingenabledinnovation.pdf)