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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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