Creativity, Analytical Skills, Personality Traits, and Innovation Game Behavior in the Lab: An Experiment

Agnes Bäker, Werner Güth (), Kerstin Pull and Manfred Stadler

No 2011-056, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: nnovative behavior is mostly studied theoretically, e.g., in models of patent races, and empirically, e.g., by using R&D or patent data. This research, however, is only poorly informed about the psychological tradition of creativity research. Our study is an attempt to experimentally collect behavioral data revealing in how far creativity, analytical skills, personality traits and innovation game behavior in the lab are interrelated. With the help of a within-subject design we find that participants' performance in the innovation games is in fact related to their creativity, risk tolerance and self-control. Other personality traits such participants' anxiety, independence, tough-mindedness and extraversion, if any, only play a minor role, and the same is true for participants' analytical skills.

Keywords: Creativity; personality traits; innovation games; experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 L13 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-11-09
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