Network mechanisms in innovation: borrowing and sparking ideas around structural holes

B Vedres - Handbook of Sociological Science, 2022 - elgaronline.com
A relational understanding of innovation is a core agenda in science. In biology, parallel
evolution in separate subpopulations that subsequently mix is seen as a key mechanism …

Collaborative Creativity as a Field within Computational Social Science

B Vedres - Available at SSRN 4063722, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Generating new ideas and solutions is increasingly a collective phenomenon, where
collaborative networks play a decisive role in finding and diffusing of novel ideas. At the …

[PDF][PDF] Network Tension and Innovation in Teams: Deep Success in Jazz

B Vedres, T Cserpes - Retrieved (Osf. Io/Preprints/Socarxiv/Bpxwa), 2021 - hbs.edu
As teamwork becomes more prevalent in creative fields, we need to understand how
collectives can recognize and implement new ideas (Vera and Crossan 2005; Wuchty …

The social structure of innovation

B Vedres - Available at SSRN 4847983, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Our social networks relate to our creativity in complex ways, and our understanding of this
relationship is complicated by the segregation of the academic fields of creativity and …

Network Tension and Deep Success in Jazz

Prior scholarship neglected the creative potential of open and strong relationships, because—
rooted in a long sociological tradition of balance theory—it assumed that strong ties are …