Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Knowledge ...

Vincenzo Cavaliere and Daria Sarti
a specific problem <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> client. In this sense, learning-by-doing play an essential role and in this
sense it is <strong>the</strong> knowledge internal to <strong>the</strong> firm and to individuals that lead to product innovation in SEs.
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