Brokerage functions in a virtual idea generation platform: Possibilities for collective creativity?

Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 363-374

  Parjanen, Satu ^a   Hennala, Lea ^a   Konsti Laakso, Suvi ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brokerage functions; Collective creativity; Distance; Idea generation; Innovation; User driven; Virtuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871183678     PISSN: 14479338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/impp.2012.14.3.363     Document Type: Article

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