Free revealing in open innovation: A comparison of different models and their benefits for companies

International Journal of Product Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 95-118

  Schweisfurth, Tim ^a   Raasch, Christina ^a   Herstatt, Cornelius ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective invention; Commons based peer production; Comparative analysis; Crowdsourcing; Distributed innovation; Free revealing of information; Innovation models; Open source; User innovation networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952367864     PISSN: 14779056     EISSN: 17418178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2011.038867     Document Type: Article

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