Innovation management in software: Case studies from the Costa Rican software development industryi

We study in this work innovation in several Costa Rican software development companies, in order to associate to each of them a model of innovation management, according to the literature. This is done with the purpose of finding differences in innovation practices in such companies, and relate them with the type of innovations obtained in these companies.

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