Information and communication technology innovations: Radical and disruptive?

New Media and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-619

  Latzer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communications sector; Disruptive technologies; ICT; Innovation theory; Internet; P2P; Radical innovations; VoIP; WLAN

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949090073     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809102964     Document Type: Article

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