This paper advances a new theoretical model to understand the effect of culture on creativity
in a global context. We theorize that creativity engagement and success depend on the …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator
and reviews some of the recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments …

While open innovation provides a new paradigm to sustain a firm's competitive advantage,
opening up to external knowledge also entails substantial risks of appropriation and …

This Editors' Forum–'Creativity East and West'–presents five papers on the question of
cultural differences in creativity from the perspective of different research literatures, followed …

This paper employs data from a large-scale survey (InnoS&T) of inventors in Europe, the
USA, and Japan who were listed in patent applications filed at the European Patent Office …

The current analysis deconstructs creativity and humor from a cultural perspective. We first
identify two key commonalities between creativity and humor: Both (a) involve appropriate …

Like the US before it, Japan has adopted a series of policy initiatives designed to encourage
the commercialization of academic science. However, such initiatives may also adversely …

The incorporation of public organizations is meant to improve their efficiency and
contribution to national and local economies. In Japan, incorporation has been implemented …

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on “clean” electricity
technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of …

We study a model of growth and mass production. Firms undertake either product
innovations that introduce new luxury goods for the rich; or process innovations that …