Driving innovation: When design collaboration becomes open source, how do reward mechanisms and in-process feedback act as catalysts

• Boqun Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boqun Xu, Kexin Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Design and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang Dafeng Industry Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6672-9334

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• Kexin Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Boqun Xu, Kexin Xu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Design and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0044-2308

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• Yuning Zhu ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhuyuning@zjut.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Design and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3114-2628

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• Yiting Zhou ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ TZ and XL authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Design and Architecture, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China

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• Xiaojian Liu

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliation

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