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Quand une star scientifique meurt, d'autres idees fleurissent /When a scientific star dies, other ideas flourish

27 March 2019

In 2010, along with two other colleagues at MIT and the University of California at San Diego, he had already observed that the productivity of former star coworkers decreased by 5% to 8% after such a fatal event. "Since then, many have taken this idea of the shock of death," said Xavier Jaravel, professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, which showed in 2017 that the co-inventors of a deceased are less productive and that the revenues from their patents fall after a disappearance.

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