Efficient team structures in an open-ended cooperative creativity experiment
Abstract
Understanding how to best form teams to perform creative tasks is a fascinating although elusive problem. Here we propose an experimental setting for studying the performances of a population of individuals committed to an open-ended cooperative creativity task, namely the construction of LEGO artworks. The real-time parallel monitoring of the growth of the artworks and the structure and composition of the dynamically working teams allow identifying the key ingredients of successful teams. Large teams composed of committed and influential people are more effectively building. Also, there exists an optimal fraction of weak ties in the working teams, i.e., an optimal ratio exploit/explore that maximizes the building efficiency.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- October 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.1909827116
- Bibcode:
- 2019PNAS..11622088M