Increasingly, companies are requiring their employees to assign to their employers any inventions or ideas they may come up with during, or after, the course of their employment. This Op-Ed in the New York Times discusses an interesting study the author made examining this question: “How does a reality in which we own so little of what we create affect our drive to make something new and original?” The short answer: we are less focused on solving problems and more prone to making errors when we do not own the fruit of our labors.