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How High are the Giants' Shoulders : An Empirical Assessment of Knowledge Spillovers and Creative Destruction in a Model of Economic Growth
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1993
The pace of industrial innovation and growth is shaped by many forces that interact in complicated ways. Profit …
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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999
relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
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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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Patent Quality : Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement
Higham, Kyle W. - 2020
The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481150
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Induction and Evolution in the Origin of Inventions : Evidence from Smoking Cessation Products
Werfel, Seth H. - 2010
innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …
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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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