means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a …In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by … sequential innovation process. We use this task to investigate the effects of intellectual property allowing subjects to assign …

All creativity and innovation build on existing ideas. Authors and inventors copy, adapt, improve, interpret, and … innovation to ensure that initial creators and subsequent creators receive the appropriate sets of incentives. Although many … innovation, that work has rested on a set of untested assumptions about creators’ behavior. This Article reports four novel …

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 …

means of a laboratory experiment. We introduce a novel Scrabble-like creativity task that captures most essentialities of a …In this paper we contribute to the discussion on whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by … sequential innovation process. We use this task to investigate the effects of intellectual property allowing subjects to assign …

framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no …This paper presents preliminary results from a pilot experiment dealing with the economic motivations to contribute to … Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation …