Where and how to search? Search paths in open innovation

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-136

  Lopez Vega, Henry ^a   Tell, Fredrik ^a,b   Vanhaverbeke, Wim ^c,d,e  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Boundary spanning; Innovation intermediaries; Organizational search; Problem framing; Search heuristics; Search space

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

BOUNDARY SPANNING; INNOVATION INTERMEDIARIES; ORGANIZATIONAL SEARCHES; PROBLEM FRAMINGS; SEARCH HEURISTICS; SEARCH SPACES;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84961595233     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.08.003     Document Type: Article

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