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Innovation Valuation: Guesswork or Formalized Framework? A Literature Review

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This chapter deals with different methods for valuating an innovation as presented by the available academic literature, mainly articles in peer-reviewed journals. It aims at building up a typology and at assessing the pros and cons of the various methodologies, whether quantitative, qualitative or mix. It concludes that there is no ideal innovation valuation model and that a specific composite scoreboard approach seems to be the only way to approximate

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    J. J. Chanaron

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Chanaron, J.J. (2013). Innovation Valuation: Guesswork or Formalized Framework? A Literature Review. In: Akhilesh, K. (eds) Emerging Dimensions of Technology Management. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0792-4_2

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