Onderzoek naar innovatie – hoe ontstaat het, hoe kijkt men en hoe innovatief is het onderzoek zelf?

Stefanie Stantcheva of Harvard University discusses how interaction with ‘better’ inventors increases knowledge and improves inventions.

Ensuring that inventors can acquire knowledge is a key part of the process driving innovation, and therefore economic growth.

Stefanie Stantcheva talking at AEA 2019 about research that uses data from the European Patent Office to track the progress of inventors over time and which reveals how interaction with ‘better’ inventors increases knowledge and improves inventions. Indeed, the knowledge that there are people better than them is enough to push inventors to acquire new knowledge and improve.

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Publicatie 14 maart