The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet …

institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the field experimental … research program carried out by our Crowd Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University to clarify how we have attempted to … address these research design challenges. This program has simultaneously solved important practical innovation problems for …

This Note examines the development of the knowledge embodied in ‘artifacts’ – things we use and value that do not exist …

We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a … serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium …-symposium publication records over six years. We find that interacting scientists acquire and create more knowledge when they share some …