Incentivizing collaboration in a competition

• Main Authors: SINHA, Arunesh, WELLMAN, Michael P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: collaboration incentives; mechanism design; scoring competitions; Computer and Systems Architecture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4796; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5799/viewcontent/Incentivizing_Collaboration_in_a_Competition_1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Research and design competitions aim to promote innovation or creative production, which are often best achieved through collaboration. The nature of a competition, however, typically necessitates sorting by individual performance. This presents tradeoffs for the competition designer, between incent...