The importance of joint schemas and brokers in promoting collaboration for innovation

Public Innovation Through Collaboration and Design

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 125-147

  Gray, Barbara ^b   Ren, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84955711376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203795958     Document Type: Chapter

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