The front end of innovation: Organizing search for ideas

Journal of Product Innovation Management

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 482-487

  Van Den Ende, Jan ^a   Frederiksen, Lars ^b   Prencipe, Andrea ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONT-END OF INNOVATIONS; IDEA MANAGEMENTS; INNOVATION PROCESS; INTERNAL SOURCE; TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE;

INNOVATION;

EID: 85027937245     PISSN: 07376782     EISSN: 15405885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12213     Document Type: Article

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