Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent / Albert N. Link, Christopher J. Ruhm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Link, Albert N.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Ruhm, Christopher J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17441.

NBER working paper series no. w17441

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Creativity and the Family Tree

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2011.