In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by … means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a … sequential innovation process. We use this task to investigate the effects of intellectual property allowing subjects to assign …

Managers should understand the variables of innovation or the key points of creative innovation to ensure that … innovation relations and creative innovation on management. This research will analyze five key issues: The processes of …. The employees' belief in creative innovation. The creative climate of the business. The support process of the business …

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation … framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no …

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how …

All creativity and innovation build on existing ideas. Authors and inventors copy, adapt, improve, interpret, and … innovation to ensure that initial creators and subsequent creators receive the appropriate sets of incentives. Although many … innovation, that work has rested on a set of untested assumptions about creators’ behavior. This Article reports four novel …