Who becomes an inventor in America? The importance of exposure to innovation
We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States, focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) versus environment (“nurture”). Using deidentified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records, we first show that children's...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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