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A rational model of innovation by recombination

2024-02-05

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<p>Human learning does not stop at solving a single problem. Instead, we seek new challenges, define new goals, and come up with new ideas. What drives people to disrupt the existing conceptual landscape and create new things? Here, we examine the decision to create new things under different levels of potential returns. We formalize innovation as stochastically recombining existing ideas, where successful and mor...

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10.31234/osf.io/tzr9a
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