Coping with open innovation: Responding to the challenges of external engagement in R&D

California Management Review

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 77-94

  Salter, Ammon ^a   Criscuolo, Paola ^b   Ter Wal, Anne L J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

External engagement; Individual level openness; Innovation; Intellectual property; Open innovation; Practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894550910     PISSN: 00081256     EISSN: 21628564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2014.56.2.77     Document Type: Article

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