Paradise of Novelty—Or Loss of Human Capital? Exploring New Fields and Inventive Output

Does a person become more or less creative when exploring a new field? Exploring new fields exposes a person to new knowledge that might increase the novelty of inventive output; at the same time, exploration means a lack of prior expertise and a learning challenge that might harm the value of that...

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Published in:Organization science (Providence, R.I.) R.I.), 2018-11, Vol.29 (6), p.1074-1092
Main Authors: Arts, Sam, Fleming, Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
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collaboration
Correlation analysis
Creative ability
Creativity
Employment policies
Experts
exploration
field
Human capital
inventor
Inventors
Knowledge management
Labor law
novelty
novice
science
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