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Peter A. Gloor

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  230
Citations -  5644

Peter A. Gloor is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social network analysis & Social network. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 211 publications receiving 4918 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter A. Gloor include University of Cologne & Union Bank of Switzerland.

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The Virtual Mirror: Reflecting on the Social and Psychological Self to Increase Organizational Creativity

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an approach to increase creativity in their teams by measuring individual personality characteristics, crucial for creative people, via measuring interpersonal interaction with sensor-equipped badges worn on the body.
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Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thing

TL;DR: Coolfarming as discussed by the authors provides a fertile nurturing ground for developing original ideas by showing readers how they, like bee keepers, can nurture exciting trends and unleash their creative swarm's output of next big ideas.
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Measuring creative performance of teams through dynamic semantic social network analysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared communication structure and content exchanged by members of creative, interdisciplinary teams of medical researchers, physicians, patients and caretakers with their creative output, and found that longitudinal social networking patterns and word usage predict creative performance.

Does Geographic Clustering Still Benefit High Tech New Ventures? The Case of the Cambridge/Boston Biotech Cluster

TL;DR: An empirical study of scientific communication among biotechnology companies supports the belief that geographic clustering does produce increased scientific exchange among companies as discussed by the authors, and a comparison of companies within a constrained geographic area with those more dispersed shows a significantly higher level of scientific communications among the former.
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Size does not matter - in the virtual world. Comparing online social networking behaviour with business success of entrepreneurs

TL;DR: This work explores what benefits network position in online business social networks like LinkedIn might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur and compares two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks.