Crossing horizons: Leveraging cross-industry innovation search in the front-end of the innovation process

International Journal of Innovation Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 683-702

  Brunswicker, Sabine ^a   Hutschek, Ulrich ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

Author keywords

analogical problem solving; cross industry innovation; external innovation search; fuzzy front end; innovation management; Open innovation; participatory action research

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956480234     PISSN: 13639196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S1363919610002829     Document Type: Article

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