Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Professor Jones research focuses largely on innovation and creativity, with recent work investigating the role of teamwork in innovation and the relationship between age and invention. Professor Jones 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
Research interests
- Development economics
- Economic growth
- Emerging markets
- Globalization
- Innovation
- International business
- International economics
- Technology
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Research
Medicine & Life Sciences
Geography
Medicine & Life Sciences
innovation policy
Social Sciences
innovator
Social Sciences
Creativity
Medicine & Life Sciences
science policy
Social Sciences
Network
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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
Early-career setback and future career impact
Wang, Y., Jones, B. & Wang, D., Dec 1 2019, In : Nature communications. 10, 1, 4331.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Organized Financing
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Screening
Hand
Health
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
4
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