Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity

Vaan, Mathijs de; Stark, David; Vedres, Balázs

doi:10.1086/681213

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“…While we demonstrate that the role of individuals and teams is an important factor driving innovation in the political field, this framework has wide utility for studying innovation across communication industries. As de Vaan et al (2015) reveal in their network analysis of production teams in the video game industry, groupings of diverse people with overlapping ties lead to more innovative games. Going forward, scholars can take a similar network analytic approach to test whether specific combinations of staffers within organizations ranging from Hollywood production studios to Silicon Valley start-ups result in innovative films and technology products.…”

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“…Multiple techniques exist for measuring structural folding (Burt, 2015;de Vaan et al, 2015;Stark & Vedres, 2009;Vedres & Stark, 2010). Building from structural holes calculations, Burt (2015) offers the reinforced structural holes (RSH) measure to assess how well-connected an organization is to others and how well that organization's connections are connected (Burt, 2015).…”

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Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication: Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012

Kreiss

Saffer

2017

J Commun

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We outline a network analytic framework for analyzing the production of communication. In our framework, individuals—in part the products of the history of their social and professional ties—merge from various fields and a medley of prior production experiences within organizations to produce communicative innovations. Organizations with individuals who have diverse backgrounds and significant overlap in work experiences will be more innovative. We demonstrate this through a network analysis of the professional biographies of 629 staffers on U.S. presidential campaigns from 2004 to 2012. Democratic staffers came from more diverse organizations and shared significant overlap in prior experiences than their Republican counterparts. Through interview data, we argue that this in part explains Democratic innovativeness in technology during this period.

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Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication: Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012

Kreiss

Saffer

2017

J Commun

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“…Creative work takes place in teams, where collaboration greatly impacts the breadth and depth of how ideas and skills can be combined [1,2]. Therefore, a vast literature of network analytic research has looked at the structure of relationships in which individuals and teams are embedded to understand how network positions influence success [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Brokering the core and the periphery: Creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry

2020

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In collaboration-based creative industries, such as film production, creators in the network core enjoy prestige and legitimacy that are key for creative success. However, core creators are challenged to maintain diverse access to new ideas or alternative views that often emerge from the network periphery. In this paper, we demonstrate that creators in the network core can increase the probability of their creative success by brokering peripheral collaborators to the core. The argument is tested on a dynamic collaboration network of movie creators constructed from a unique dataset of Hungarian feature films for the 1990-2009 period. We propose a new way to capture brokers' role in core/periphery networks and provide evidence that being in the core and at the same time bridging between the core and the periphery of the network significantly increases the likelihood of award winning.

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“…1 Interactions between individuals possessing differential expertise produce fertile conditions for generating novel solutions, and the coordinated effort of many is usually required to see a product through to completion. Sociological accounts call attention to the prominent role of collaboration in the innovation process (Dahlin 2011(Dahlin , 2014Latour 1987;Powell and Giannella 2010;Van de Ven et al 1999), whether the setting includes the arts (Becker 1982;Uzzi and Spiro 2005), science (Leahey 2016), established for-profit firms (De Vaan, Stark, and Vedres 2015), or entrepreneurship (Ruef 2010). While collective innovation is not a recent phenomenon, evidence suggests that it is becoming an increasingly relevant enterprise in the knowledge economy (Powell and Giannella 2010).…”

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A Network Perspective of Organizational Innovation

Dahlin

2018

Sociological Inquiry

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Current explanations undertheorize success across the broad stages of innovation, which include product invention, development, implementation, and success. While existing scholarship typically examines one, sometimes two, of these stages, innovation must be viewed more broadly with success resulting from the involvement of a wide range of actors including the firm, alliance partner, and overall network. In this article, I apply a network perspective to explain success across these stages. The argument I develop is that different types of networks are more relevant to certain stages of innovation. Network activity that increases from lower to higher levels of analysis is associated with success across the stages of innovation. Specifically, firm inventors influence product invention, successful product development and implementation are associated with dyadic‐level relationships between strategic alliance partners, and product success is impacted by a firm's central location in its entire network of strategic alliances. Results from regression models provide broad support for network approach advocated in this article.

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Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity

Cited by 183 publications

References 63 publications

Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication: Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012

Networks and Innovation in the Production of Communication: Explaining Innovations in U.S. Electoral Campaigning From 2004 to 2012

Brokering the core and the periphery: Creative success and collaboration networks in the film industry

A Network Perspective of Organizational Innovation

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