the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted …. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity …

innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to … behind it. We attempt to explain this relationship with a simple model of innovation, allowing for both productive and … findings have important implications for our basic understanding of growth, innovation, and intellectual property policy. …