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patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …
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Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...
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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 …
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We propose a theory of firm dynamics in which workers have ideas for new projects that can be sold in a market to existing firms or implemented in new firms: spin-offs. Workers have private information about the quality of their ideas. Because of an adverse selection problem, workers can sell...
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Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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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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Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received …
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's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we …
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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 …
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scientific careers as the training phase extends, (b) ensuring effective evaluation of ideas (including decisions on patent …
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