Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data collected from MIT’s Technology Review winners.

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Year of publication:	2011-09-21
Authors:	Link, Albert N. ; Ruhm, Christopher
Institutions:	Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics
Subject:	patents \| entrepreneurship \| human capital endowments

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Working Papers Number 11-15 12 pages
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; L26 - Entrepreneurship ; O34 - Intellectual Property Rights: National and International Issues
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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