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 …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …