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Destructive Creation, Creative Destruction, and the Paradox of Innovation Science
Likun Cao, Ziwen Chen, James Evans
Innovation or the creation and diffusion of new material, social and cultural things in society has been widely studied in sociology and across the social sciences, with investigat…
Quantifying dynamics of failure across science, startups, and security
Yian Yin, Yang Wang, James A. Evans +1
Human achievements are often preceded by repeated attempts that initially fail, yet little is known about the mechanisms governing the dynamics of failure. Here, building on the ri…
Social Connection Induces Cultural Contraction: Evidence from Hyperbolic Embeddings of Social and Semantic Networks
Lingfei Wu, Linzhuo Li, James Evans
Research has repeatedly demonstrated the influence of social connection and communication on convergence in cultural tastes, opinions and ideas. Here we review recent studies and c…
Large Teams Have Developed Science and Technology; Small Teams Have Disrupted It
Lingfei Wu, Dashun Wang, James A. Evans
Teams dominate the production of high-impact science and technology. Analyzing teamwork from more than 50 million papers, patents, and software products, 1954-2014, we demonstrate…
Tradition and Innovation in Scientists' Research Strategies
Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky, James A. Evans
What factors affect a scientist's choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science suggests that this choice is shaped by an "e…