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This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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The extant literature linking slack time to innovation focuses on how slack time facilitates creative activities such … are less creative but still important for innovation, namely mundane, execution-oriented tasks. First, we document the …, we report timing and project type evidence consistent with the causal interpretation that slack time drives innovation …
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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 …
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