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Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...

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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up...

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Religion and Innovation

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

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THE CREATIVE RATIONALITY AS A KEY DRIVER FOR ENHANCING INNOVATION CAPABILITY

Forest, Joelle - HAL - 2009

Several recent works point out that design is one of the main driver of innovation. Therefore, it is interesting to … knowledge by knoting in a ingenious way scattered knowledge. It depends on several cognitive, individual and social variables …

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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We analyze incentives to develop entrepreneurial ideas for venture capitalists (VCs) and incumbent firms. If VCs are sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level...

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The hero figure in Business and Cinema

Fournout, Olivier - HAL - 2012

Textbooks and manuals on management suggest that managers are heroes who deal with difficult problems of collective adaptation and change. American films are similarly built on the premise of a hero confronted with extremely difficult situations. What if this hero figure promoted for so long in...

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Public Policy and Venture Capital Backed Innovation

Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2003

gains taxation, innovation subsidies, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …

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What do Spanish Engineering Students Think about Innovation and Entrepreneurship?

Edwards, Mónica; Fernández-Diego, Marta; … - INGENIO - 2010

This paper analyzes the interrelationships between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship as key enablers of an … entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented culture. Empirical results of exploring perceptions and opinions about these three concepts … traditional linear model of innovation and consider innovation strongly related to creativity but moderately related to …

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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation

Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

regard to the capital gains tax, innovation subsidy, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …

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Venture Capital Backed Growth

Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2002

The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …

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