Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
His research focuses largely on innovation and creativity, with recent work investigating the role of teamwork in innovation and the relationship between age and invention. He also studies global economic development, including the roles of education, climate, and national leadership in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations.
Education/Academic qualification
Economics, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… → 2003
Economics, MPhil, Oxford University
… → 1997
Aerospace Engineering, BSE, Princeton University
… → 1995
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Grants 2008 2019
- 2 Finished
Knowledge production function
Social benefits
Research output
Spillover
Social returns
Geography and Creativity
Ohio State University, John Templeton Foundation
1/1/08 → 11/15/09
Project: Research project
Research Output 2005 2019
Decoding team and individual impact in science and invention
Ahmadpoor, M. & Jones, B., Jan 1 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 28, p. 13885-13890 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Invention
Citations
Citation index
Team production
Patents
The human capital stock: A generalized approach: Reply
Jones, B., Mar 1 2019, In : American Economic Review. 109, 3, p. 1175-1195 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Human capital
Capital stock
Measurement method
Country differences
Conception
1
Citation
(Scopus)
The reverse matthew effect: Consequences of retraction in scientific teams
Jin, G. Z., Jones, B., Lu, S. F. & Uzzi, B., Jul 1 2019, In : Review of Economics and Statistics. 101, 3, p. 492-506 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
teamwork
event
reward
penalty
credit
3
Citations
(Scopus)
Toward a more scientific science
Wible, B., Azoulay, P., Graff-Zivin, J., Uzzi, B., Wang, D., Williams, H., Evans, J. A., Zhe Jin, G., Feng Lu, S., Jones, B., Börner, K., Lakhani, K. R., Boudreau, K. J. & Guinan, E. C., Sep 21 2018, In : Science. 361, 6408, p. 1194-1197 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Intuition
Policy Making
4
Citations
(Scopus)
University innovation and the professor's privilege
Hvide, H. K. & Jones, B., Jul 1 2018, In : American Economic Review. 108, 7, p. 1860-1898 39 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Innovation
Norway
Entrepreneurship
Patents
Start-ups