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 … patent) and creativity (fraction of superstar innovators, the likelihood of a very high number of citations, and generality …

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior … of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this … relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation …

followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …

paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to … recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances … made significant contributions after the age of 50 with two of their colleagues whose creativity failed to persist past 50 …

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …