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Making creative breakthroughs

Making creative breakthroughs

Most creative breakthroughs come from making atypical combinations of skills.

Researcher Brian Uzzi, a professor at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, found that the most impactful scientific papers often have teams with atypical combinations of backgrounds.

In another comprehensive study, Uzzi compared the results of academic papers by the number of citations they received and other papers they cited. The top-performing studies cited atypical combinations of other studies.

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Researcher Brian Uzzi, a professor at the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, analyzed more than 26 million scientific papers going back hundreds of years and found t...

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