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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fluid concepts and creative analogies. The goal of this paper is to describe our initial efforts at developing what we call interactive analogies. Ryan rumble, niall anthony minto, 2017 how to use analogies for creative business modelling, journal of business strategy, v ol. Theyve stimulated great feats of problemsolving and discovery.
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