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The idea idea

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What if practices rather than ideas are the main source of innovation?

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 3
March 2012
106 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2093548
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Published: 01 March 2012
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