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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2012
Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460166
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Innovators : Songwriters
Galenson, David - 2009
Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463138
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The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century
Galenson, David - 2009
A survey of textbooks reveals that scholars consider Alfred Stieglitz to have been the greatest photographer of the twentieth century, followed in order by Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, and Eugène Atget. Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists, who were committed to...
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Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art
Galenson, David - 2009
conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463576
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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008
As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is … associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the … incidence of a disease will increase technological innovation specific to that disease. The empirical economics literature has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464784
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Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008
opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464785
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Language in Visual Art : The Twentieth Century
Galenson, David - 2008
paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464801
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New Ideas in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2015
A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...
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