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Institutionalising Responsible Innovation in Industry and Other Competitive Environments – Perspective

From a land ‘down under’: the potential role of responsible innovation as practice during the bottom-up development of mission arenas in Australia

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Article: 2142393 | Received 15 Aug 2022, Accepted 28 Oct 2022, Published online: 07 Jan 2023

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