What Inspires Leisure Time Invention?
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Keywords
Leisure Time; Inventiveness; Organizational Creativity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2009-04-18 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CUL-2009-04-18 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-INO-2009-04-18 (Innovation)
- NEP-LAB-2009-04-18 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2009-04-18 (Project, Program and Portfolio Management)
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