Creativity in scientific teams: Unpacking novelty and impact

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 684-697

  Lee, You Na ^a   Walsh, John P ^a,b   Wang, Jian ^c,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creativity; Division of labor; Interdisciplinarity; Size; Team science

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING;

CREATIVITY; DIVISION OF LABOR; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; SIZE; TEAM SCIENCE;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84923141963     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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