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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2014
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Agglomeration and Innovation
Carlino, Gerald - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …
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Lockdowns and Innovation : Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic
Berkes, Enrico - 2020
Does social distancing harm innovation? We estimate the effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs …
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Innovators : Filmmakers
Galenson, David W. - 2010
John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental filmmakers: both believed images were more important to movies than words, and considered movies a form of entertainment. Their styles developed gradually over long careers, and both made the films that are generally considered their greatest...
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Innovators : Architects
Galenson, David W. - 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry were experimental architects: all worked visually, and arrived at their designs by discovering forms as they sketched. Their styles evolved gradually over long periods, and all three produced the buildings that are generally considered their...
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Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age : Lessons from the Impressionists
Galenson, David W. - 2007
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 can equally be made by older, experimental innovators....
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Painting by Proxy : The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer
Galenson, David W. - 2006
In 1958, the French philosopher Etienne Gilson observed that "painters are related to manual laborers by a deep-rooted affinity that nothing can eliminate," because painting was the one art in which the person who conceives the work is also necessarily the person who executes it. Conceptual...
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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is So Different From the Art of All Earlier Centuries
Galenson, David W. - 2006
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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