Slack Time and Innovation
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- Ajay Agrawal & Christian Catalini & Avi Goldfarb & Hong Luo, 2018. "Slack Time and Innovation," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 29(6), pages 1056-1073, December.
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- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2015-05-09 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-INO-2015-05-09 (Innovation)
- NEP-LMA-2015-05-09 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-NEU-2015-05-09 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-PPM-2015-05-09 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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