What drives collective innovation? exploring the system of drivers for motivations in open innovation, web-based platforms

Information Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Battistella, Cinzia ^a   Nonino, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

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