Modeling Human Inventivity as a Random Poisson Process
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This report is both a summary and a critique of the article Invention and Inventivity Is a Random, Poisson Process: A Potential Guide to Analysis of General Creativity by John C. Huber from the Institute of Invention and Innovation. The article studies human creativity through measuring the number of patents issued to each individual inventor throughout his/her inventive career. By taking samples from different groups of inventors, the article draws the conclusions that the time pattern of patents for most inventors is random and fit the Poisson Process (Huber, 1998).
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تاریخ انتشار 2012