Tapping user-driven innovation: A new rationale for universal service

Information Society

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-108

  Bar, François ^a   Riis, Annemarie Munk ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Evolutionary economics; Innovation; Lay users; Universal service; User producer relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343498     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240050032852     Document Type: Article

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