The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?
By Benjamin F. Jones. 2005
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- Climbing atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research (2011, background): “2 Put another way, “Progress in exploiting the existing stock of knowledge depends first and foremost on the efficiency and cost of access to knowledge” (Mokyr, 2002, p. 7). While we focus on the role of formal knowledge-sharing institutions, substantial (and ever-increasing) human capital investmen”
- Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth (2010, neutral): “grows over time only because the number of varietiesmt grows over time. Using ( 15 ), it immediately”
- Demographic patterns and trends in patenting: Gender, age, and education of inventors (2014, methodology): “In Trajtenberg et al. (2006), inventor names are phoneticized using the Soundex 2 Other studies using lots of USPTO inventor data include Jones (2009) and Marx et al. (2009).”
- Creativity at the Knowledge Frontier: The Impact of Specialization in Fast- and Slow-paced Domains* (2018, background): “At its core, this choice stems from the underlying tension between an individual’s limited time and cognitive abilities and the limitless amount of knowledge that one could potentially acquire (Jones, 2009).”
- Organizational and human resource management and innovation: Which management practices are linked to product and/or process innovation? (2018, background): “Jones (2009), for example, using a large micro dataset of inventors and focusing on organizational management practices, shows that teamwork becomes more important over time.”
- The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, neutral): “As an interesting aside, there is some evidence to suggest that ‘innovators’ are getting older as more time is spent getting to the knowledge frontier (Jones, 2009).”
- Can large language models provide useful feedback on research papers? A large-scale empirical analysis (2023, neutral): “Table 5,6,7 ).”