Strategic directions on innovation management - a conceptual framework

Management Research Review

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 939-954

  Horn, Christian ^a   Brem, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frugal; Innovation; Management; Open innovation; Strategy; User centeric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883669582     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MRR-06-2012-0142     Document Type: Article

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