Community-based innovation contests: Where competition meets cooperation

Creativity and Innovation Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-303

  Bullinger, Angelika C ^a   Neyer, Anne Katrin ^a   Rass, Matthias ^a   Moeslein, Kathrin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 79956160020     PISSN: 09631690     EISSN: 14678691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2010.00565.x     Document Type: Article

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