Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5988
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 25 Sep 2011
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Date Written: September 2011
Abstract
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data collected from MIT's Technology Review winners.
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Link, Albert N. and Ruhm, Christopher J., Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent (September 2011). NBER Working Paper No. w17441, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1932572
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