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Research Article

A model of social responsibility for start-ups: developing a cross-fertilisation of responsible innovation, the lean start-up approach, and the quadruple helix approach

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Article: 2264615 | Received 27 Jun 2022, Accepted 25 Sep 2023, Published online: 11 Oct 2023

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