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Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is ambiguous empirical evidence concerning how such contests...
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Purpose - The key question addressed in the paper is whether creativity fostering methods increase innovation output in … matching methods, we estimate the average treatment effect of the treated (i.e. firms that employ creativity stimulation … creativity stimulation method used by the firm. Findings - The results confirm that the creativity enhancing methods have a …
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Diverse and complex challenges in new venture formation demand rare and exceptional entrepreneurial acumen, particularly in technology-driven environments where disrupted markets amplify the factors and magnitude of uncertainty and risk. The successful technology entrepreneur (term of art for...
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In this paper I assess the existence, and the magnitude, of technological externalities in the form of creativity …-based, indicators of creativity at the NUTS3 level, while controlling for firm localization, size and industry. I also control for … estimates show that: (i) there is a positive and highly statistically significant effect of creativity on innovativeness; (ii …
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In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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into account five factors: creativity, autonomy, tasks and roles of the entrepreneur and innovation of the process and the …
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