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Serendipity

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  • Nguyen, Minh-Hoang
  • Le, Tam-Tri

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Serendipity is defined as the ability to recognize and evaluate unexpected information and generate unintended value from it. The concept has been discussed for centuries. Still, it has only caught the attention of academia quite recently due to its strategic advantage in all aspects of life, such as daily life activities, science and technology, business and entrepreneurship, politics and economics, education administration, career choice and development, etc.

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  • Nguyen, Minh-Hoang & Le, Tam-Tri, 2021. "Serendipity," OSF Preprints ws8hn, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:ws8hn
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ws8hn
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