Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

No 11-15, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data collected from MIT’s Technology Review winners.

Keywords: patents; entrepreneurship; human capital endowments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 L26 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2011-09-21
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