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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies

Perrons, Robert K. - 2020

development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …

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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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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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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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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich

Galenson, David W. - 2006

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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Analyzing Artistic Innovation : The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2006

This paper considers not only when in their careers the greatest artists of the twentieth century made their greatest discoveries, but also how quickly they made them. The results underscore the dominant position of Picasso and Cubism in twentieth-century art: Picasso alone accounts for the two...

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The Age of Invention : Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources

Kaltenberg, Mary; Jaffe, Adam B.; Lachman, Margie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting data for inventor ages and associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name and location) and search for age and date of death information from publicly available online web directories and build a...

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Invention and the Life Course : Age Differences in Patenting

Kaltenberg, Mary; Jaffe, Adam B.; Lachman, Margie E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

have the potential to advance scholarship on the life course of innovation with implications for workplace policies …

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Experimentation, Patents, and Innovation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2008

This paper studies a simple model of experimentation and innovation. Our analysis suggests that patents may improve the … project to implement. A successful innovation can be copied by other firms. Symmetric equilibria (where actions do not depend … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this …

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

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 …

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