Showing 1 - 10 of 264
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455595
When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement - incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458899
There have been two very different life cycles for great artists: some have made their greatest contributions very early in their careers, whereas others have produced their best work late in their lives. These two patterns have been associated with different working methods, as art's young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470352
This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470839
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480710
's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482065
We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit distinction between ideas and vested interests and show how they feed into each other. In doing so the paper integrates the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453247
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660100
range of arts. It is now time to extend economic research on creativity, by applying this analysis to other intellectual … not only to understand, but perhaps also to increase, the creativity of these remarkable individuals, and to help others …. Yet creativity - a primary source of the technological change that drives economic growth - is largely the domain of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462629
Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462651