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What is the best way to reward innovation? While prizes avoid deadweight loss, intellectual property selects high social surplus projects. Optimal innovation policy thus trades off the ex-ante screening benefit and the ex-post distortion. It solves a multidimensional screening problem in the...
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the potential for positive effects on efficiency and on incentives to innovate …
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It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out … also when individuals work together to solve such problems. We do not find a negative impact of incentives on group … performance. As a comparison we ran the same experiment (the Candle Problem) with and without incentives for individuals as well …
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We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...
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Tournaments are often used to improve performance in innovation contexts. Tournaments provide monetary incentives but …,700 participants), we vary the salience of team identity, social-image concerns, and whether teams face monetary incentives. Increased … monetary incentives improve all teams’ outcomes without crowding out teams’ willingness to explore or perform similar tasks …
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