Intellectual, inventor and benefactor 1910–1987

The Individual Inventor

Inventor CEOs and Corporate Innovation

One in four U.S. high-tech firms are led by CEOs with hands-on innovation experience as inventors. We show that these “Inventor CEOs” stimulate higher quality firm-level innovation, especially when they have a personal history of high-impact patents. A CEO’s technology-class specific inventor experience also predicts the technology classes in which a firm has its greatest innovation success. Ut...

Absorptive Capacity and Post-Acquisition Inventor Productivity

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive capacity for the post-merger...

First Programming in App Inventor

1 EVENTS-FIRST PROGRAMMING IN APP INVENTOR Franklyn Turbak Mark Sherman and Fred Martin Computer Science Department Department of Computer Science Wellesley College University of Massachusetts Lowell [email protected] {msherman, fredm}@cs.uml.edu David Wolber Shaileen Crawford Pokress Computer Science Department MIT Media Lab University of San Francisco Massachusetts Institute of Technolo...

Tracing Mobile Inventors – the Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm size has a positive impact on productivity. Firm size also influences inventor mobility, although negati...