Looking beyond the focal industry and existing technologies for radical innovations

Technovation

Volumn 33, Issue 10-11, 2013, Pages 355-367

  Datta, Avimanyu ^a   Jessup, Leonard M ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exterior sourcing; Innovation; Patents; Radical innovations; Technology; Technology distinctness

Indexed keywords

EXTERIOR SOURCING; HIGH TECHNOLOGY; IT INDUSTRY; PATENT FILING; PATENTS; RADICAL INNOVATION; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

INDUSTRY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84885172665     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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