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Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences: Answers and Questions / David Galenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galenson, David.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15838.
- NBER working paper series no. w15838
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Late Bloomers in the Arts and Sciences
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- Recent research has shown that all the arts have had important practitioners of two different types -- conceptual innovators who make their greatest contributions early in their careers, and experimental innovators who produce their greatest work later in their lives. This contradicts a persistent but mistaken belief that artistic creativity has been dominated by the young. We do not yet have systematic studies of the relative importance of conceptual and experimental innovators in the sciences. But in the absence of such studies, it may be damaging for economic growth to continue to assume that innovations in science are made only by the young.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2010.
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