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Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D

Arora, Ashish - 2015

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … innovation. Large firms appear to value the golden eggs of science (as reflected in patents) but not the golden goose itself (the …

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Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age : Lessons from the Impressionists

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances can equally be made by older, experimental innovators....

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The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of textbooks reveals that scholars consider Alfred Stieglitz to have been the greatest photographer of the twentieth century, followed in order by Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, and Eugène Atget. Stieglitz, Evans, and Atget were experimental artists, who were committed to...

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Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

Galenson, David W. - 2020

conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …

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The Greatest Photographers of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

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Painting by Proxy : The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

Galenson, David W. - 2020

In 1958, the French philosopher Etienne Gilson observed that "painters are related to manual laborers by a deep-rooted affinity that nothing can eliminate," because painting was the one art in which the person who conceives the work is also necessarily the person who executes it. Conceptual...

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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is so Different from the Art of All Earlier Centuries

Galenson, David W. - 2020

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …

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The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

Galenson, David W. - 2020

A survey of art history textbooks identifies and ranks the eight most important works of the 20th century. The most important painting of the century was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, executed by Picasso at the age of 26, which began the development of Cubism. Among the other seven works, a...

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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor

Arora, Ashish - 2018

of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …

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Two Paths to Abstract Art : Kandinsky and Malevich

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich were both great Russian painters who became pioneers of abstract art during the second decade of the twentieth century. Yet the forms of their art differed radically, as did their artistic methods and goals. Kandinsky, an experimental artist, approached...

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