that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …

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 … crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

uncertainty. We designed a multi-period experiment in which each period consisted of two stages, an R&D phase and a pricing stage …. Participants in the experiment had almost no information about the underlying functions, parameters, and probabilities. Subjects …' behavior in the fundamentally uncertain environment of our experiment may best be characterized as some kind of procedural …