Dear List,
The paper referred to here (see URL below) will interest people who
do not subscribe to the current obsession with research funding as
the measure of success.
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/reprint/53/1/1
Here is part of the abstract:
"We integrate psychological theories of individual creativity with
organizational theories of exploration versus
exploitation to examine the relationship between past success and
creativity over time. A key prediction
derived from this theoretical integration is that successful people
should be more likely to generate new
ideas, but these ideas will tend to be less divergent as they favor
the exploitation of familiar knowledge at the
expense of the exploration of new domains. This prediction departs
from the often-held view that people who
generate more ideas will also generate ideas that are more divergent. ..."
Kind regards,
Conall
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>From: Antonio Lettieri <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Is Success Bad ? [triz list]
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:49:08 +0000
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>Is Success a bad thing for invertors creativity ?
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>http://www.informs.org/article.php?id=1266&p=1|
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>Regards
>
>Antonio Cesar Lettieri
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