The Traits of the Innovator: Five-Factor Model Analysis and Exemplification
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Within the business context, the study of the innovator’s personal traits is a fundamental analysis to be carried out in order to understand in a complete way howthe innovation process takes place and find out which traits are necessary to make ithappen. Based on the five-factor model, this work explores how personality traits arerelated to successful ways to innovate and provides a contemporary example analysisby studying one of the nowadays most innovative personalities: Elon Musk. By comparing the five-factor model with this concrete experimental case, conclusions will be drawn on the effectiveness of the model by proposing a possible interpretation of the five-factors model from a practical perspective.
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