| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24339 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24339 |
| Can Innovators be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest | |
| Joshua S. Graff Zivin; Elizabeth Lyons | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-02-19 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent characteristic of the individual and that people with this innate ability select into jobs that require it. In this paper, we investigate whether people who do not self-select into being innovators can be induced to innovate, and whether they innovate differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation contest for engineering and computer science students which allowed us to differentiate between those who self-select into innovative activities and those who are willing to undertake them only after receiving an additional incentive for doing so. We also randomly offer encouragement to subsets of both the induced and self-selected contest participants in order to examine the importance of confidence-building interventions on each sample. We find that while induced participants have different observable characteristics than those that were ‘innately’ drawn to the competition, on average, the success of induced participants was statistically indistinguishable from their self-selected counterparts and encouragement does not change this result. Heterogeneity in treatment effects suggests an important role for the use of targeted interventions. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24339 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582012 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua S. Graff Zivin,Elizabeth Lyons. Can Innovators be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest. 2018. |
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