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Groups of people can sometimes rise to impressive performance when they are highly committed to a common cause.

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    For instance, the inventor was the spokesperson of all European propeller manufacturers in the international normalisation ISO-TC8 and in Lloyd’s Panel for Ship Propulsion.

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van Gunsteren, L.A., Vlas, A.G. (2022). The Intrinsically Motivated Crowd. In: The License Giver Business Concept of Technological Innovation. Future of Business and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91123-2_3

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