The role of public-private partnerships in developing open social innovation: The case of GoogleGlass4Lis

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2017, Pages 580-592

  Tardivo, Giuseppe ^a   Santoro, Gabriele ^a   Ferraris, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alliance management; Open social innovation; PPP; Public private partnership; Social innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029521731     PISSN: 17460573     EISSN: 17460581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/WREMSD.2017.086305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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