Public sector innovation research: What's next?

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 122-137

  Potts, Jason ^a   Kastelle, Tim ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Innovation; Market sector; Public sector; Randomised control experiments; Research agenda; Scientific method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952762247     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.12.2.122     Document Type: Article

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