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The Organizational Implications of Creativity : The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century
Gil, Ricard - 2007
fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or …
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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
women's creativity within the nonmarket household sector and outside the patent system. The analysis distinguishes between … improvements in consumer final goods, changes in designs, and other forms of technological creativity. The results indicate that …'s creativity in terms of a "gender difference" rather than a "gender gap" might yield useful analytical insights. A general …
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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Startups in IT and life sciences appear to be flourishing. However, startups in other sectors, such as new materials, automation, and eco-innovations, which are often called "deep tech", seem to struggle. We argue that innovations with both technical and commercial challenges, typical of deep...
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US Faculty Patenting : Inside and Outside the University
Thursby, Jerry - 2007
This paper examines the empirical anomaly that in a sample of 5811 patents on which US faculty are listed as inventors, 26% of the patents are assigned solely to firms rather than to the faculty member's university as is dictated by US university employment policies or the Bayh Dole Act. In this...
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Bankrupt Innovative Firms
Ma, Song; Tong, Joy Tianjiao; Wang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how innovative firms manage their innovation portfolios after filing for Chapter 11 reorganization using three decades of data. We find that they sell off core (i.e., technologically critical and valuable), rather than peripheral, patents in bankruptcy. The selling pattern is...
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2011
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's...
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Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition
Babina, Tania; Fedyk, Anastassia; He, Alex Xi; Hodson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the shifts in U.S. firms' workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker resume and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments and workforce composition variables, such as...
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Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation : Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data
Braginskij, Sergej V.; Choi, Joonkyu; Ding, Yuheng; Jo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the importance of mega firms in novel patents had been...
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Mental Health, Creativity, and Wealth
Biasi, Barbara; Dahl, Michael S.; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Focusing on bipolar disorder (BD), we investigate the link between mental health, creativity, and wealth. Analyzing … compared with the bottom decile. Yet, wealth differences only explain a small portion of the link between BD and creativity …
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Creativity Under Fire : The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
Gross, Daniel P. - 2018
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …
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