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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 …
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conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …
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was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …
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A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...
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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 …
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A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...
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measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction … choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … different types of firms, we provide cross-country, firm-level and patent-level evidence consistent with this pattern. Our …
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Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...
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paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …
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. In general, identifying the most important short periods of artistic creativity emphasizes the differing methods of … gradually, adds an important dimension to our understanding of human creativity …
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