Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …

choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging technology where innovation and production are sourced out to the public through an open … call. At the center of crowdsourcing is a resource allocation problem: there is an abundance of workers but a scarcity of … fact that the exact difficulties of innovation tasks may not be known in advance, so tasks that require high-skill labor …

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …