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Item Open Access Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century(SSRN Electronic Journal) Feigenbaum, James; Gross, Daniel PItem Open Access Automation and the Fate of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century(2020-10-31) Feigenbaum, James; Gross, Daniel PItem Open Access Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020-06) Gross, Daniel PThough fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper studies the incentive effects of competition on individuals' creative production. Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to produce original, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy competition drives them to stop investing altogether. The results yield lessons for the management of creative workers and the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation.Item Open Access Crisis Innovation Policy from World War Ii to Covid-19(2021-06) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NItem Open Access Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation(Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper, 2020-06-02) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NItem Open Access Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation(SSRN Electronic Journal) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NItem Open Access Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II(2020-10-08) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NItem Open Access Organizing Crisis Innovation: Lessons from World War II(SSRN Electronic Journal) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NItem Open Access Performance feedback in competitive product development(The RAND Journal of Economics, 2017-05) Gross, Daniel PItem Open Access Scale versus scope in the diffusion of new technology: evidence from the farm tractor(The RAND Journal of Economics, 2018-06) Gross, Daniel PItem Open Access The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II(SSRN Electronic Journal) Gross, Daniel PItem Open Access The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy: A Historical Perspective(AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021-05-01) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven NSince the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, researchers, and journalists have made comparisons to World War II. In 1940, a group of top US science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research that yielded innovations like mass-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the objectives of crisis R&D are different than ordinary R&D, we argue that appropriate R&D policy in a crisis requires going beyond the standard Nelson-Arrow framework for research policy.Item Open Access The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy: A Historical Perspective(SSRN Electronic Journal) Gross, Daniel P; Sampat, Bhaven N