This conceptual article contains a proposed four-part categorization of crowdsolving platform features: contest, idea, participant, and community. A related conceptual framework depicts the relationships of these features with the outcomes of creating, transferring, and assimilating knowledge for the platform and its client firms, according to the socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization (SECI) model. Arguments based in Social Capital Theory, Social Cognitive Theory, and Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory inform the predictions about the spiral of interactions between explicit and tacit knowledge that occurs during a contest on a crowdsolving platform. The findings suggest ways to design a crowdsolving ba (shared space for creativity) and platform-level absorptive capacity. For platform managers, this study also offers new insights into the important decisions they must make to develop their platforms’ features.

这篇概念性文章包含众筹平台功能的拟议四部分分类：竞赛、创意、参与者和社区。根据社会化、外部化、组合和内部化 (SECI) 模型，相关的概念框架描述了这些特征与平台及其客户公司创造、转移和吸收知识的结果之间的关系。基于社会资本理论、社会认知理论和组织知识创造理论的论点为众筹平台上的竞赛中发生的显性知识和隐性知识之间的交互螺旋提供了预测。研究结果提出了设计众包解决方案的方法（创意共享空间）和平台级吸收能力。对于平台管理者来说，这项研究还为他们必须做出的重要决策以开发平台功能提供了新的见解。