Creativity is commonly viewed as a collective process involving the co- ordination of a variety of individuals who interact in a dense network and in uence one another through time. In this paper, we study the evolution of the network of collaboration among artists in the particular case of the Blue Note jazz label.  read more »

We explore the impact of geographic dispersion of a firm’s R&D activities on the quality of its innovative output. Using data on over half a million patents from 1,127 firms, we find that having geographically distributed R&D per se does not improve the quality of a firm’s innovations.  read more »