Social relationships channel information, influence, and access to scarce resources. As a consequence, social networks - the patterns of these relationships across the members of a community - influence who comes up with important innovations, whether and how rapidly those innovations get...

Collaboration is increasingly the norm in many creative domains. Among collaborative ties, repeated ones are especially beneficial as they entail fewer frictions, facilitate greater amounts of information transfer, and engender more trust – all contributing to more creative outputs. Prior...