Towards a better measurement of the soft side of innovation: First results of an experiment aimed at measuring non-technological innovation using an adapted innovation survey in the Netherlands

Contemporary Management of Innovation: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 181-202

  den Hertog, Pim ^a   Poot, Tom ^b   Meinen, Gerhard ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84923375811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230378841     Document Type: Chapter

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