Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

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 …

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 …

followed sharply contrasting life cycles of creativity …

conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …

paintings and collages in entirely new ways, and their innovation was quickly adopted by other artists. Words, phrases, and …

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 …

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …