Product innovation and the complementarities of external interfaces

European Management Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 117-135

  Ebersberger, Bernd ^a   Herstad, Sverre Johan ^b  

^a MANAGEMENT CENTER INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

collaboration; innovation; open innovation; organizational learning; research and development; search; sourcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054068571     PISSN: 17404754     EISSN: 17404762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-4762.2011.01014.x     Document Type: Article

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