Economic research on innovation has long discussed which policy instruments best foster innovativeness in individuals … and organizations. One of the instruments easily accessible to policy-makers is innovation contests; however, there is … analyzing the effects of two different innovation contests on subjects ́innovativeness: a prize for the aggregate innovativeness …

"Competition has run amok. Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest, is crudely understood as justifying a winner … life, you have tread underfoot any and all your rivals. Competition has become a simplistic zero-sum game, played without … competition across leading global organizations and industries, she exposes how desperately business, finance and education needs …

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel …, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas …

Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel …, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas …