Barriers to user innovation: Moving towards a paradigm of 'licence to innovate'?

International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 292-303

  Braun, Viktor ^a,b   Herstatt, Cornelius ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Attomey at Law   (United States)

Author keywords

Locus of innovation; Sources of innovation; User innovation

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INNOVATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

LICENCE TO INNOVATE; LOCUS OF INNOVATIONS; SEED BREEDING INDUSTRY; SOURCES OF INNOVATIONS; USER INNOVATIONS;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 41149094074     PISSN: 14684322     EISSN: 17415292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTPM.2007.015112     Document Type: Article

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