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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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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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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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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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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...
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