Enabling or mediating the social sciences? The opportunities and risks of bottom-up innovation

World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 165-184

  Dutton, William H ^a,b,c   Meyer, Eric T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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