Idea Competitions under scrutiny: Acquisition, intelligence or public relations mechanism?

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1563-1578

  Mortara, Letizia ^a   Ford, Simon J ^a   Jaeger, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquisition mechanism; Crowdsourcing; Idea Competitions; Innovation contests; Innovation tournaments; Intelligence; Open innovation; Public relations; User innovation

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; IDEA COMPETITIONS; INTELLIGENCE; OPEN INNOVATION; USER INNOVATION;

INNOVATION; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

INNOVATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE;

EID: 84883453671     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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