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Knowledge Required for Innovation

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Managing Innovation and Change

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This brief chapter, supported by some illustrations, attempts to show which types of knowledge contribute to, and induce, innovation in large organizations, and how information about those types of knowledge is communicated within the organizations by means of specific processes and supported by specific agents.

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Goldberg, W.H. (1989). Knowledge Required for Innovation. In: Lundstedt, S.B., Moss, T.H. (eds) Managing Innovation and Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7835-6_6

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