Lee Fleming

Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit

Professor

Boston, MA 02163

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

18

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2014
Schar School of Policy and Government, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Pennsylvania State University - The Northeastern Regional Center for Rural Development, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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entrepreneurship, policy, urban, city, local, state, regional, roadmap, economy

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Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flow

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Olav Sorenson, Jan W. Rivkin and Lee Fleming
Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School, Strategy Unit and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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Diffusion, Patents, Agglomeration

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Small Worlds and Regional Innovation

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Lee Fleming, Charles King and Adam I. Juda
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Greylock McKinnon Associates and Harvard Business School
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small-world networks, innovation, regional advantage

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Science and the Diffusion of Knowledge

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 May 2001
Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming
Yale School of Management and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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science, technological innovation, patents, diffusion

Science and the Diffusion of Knowledge

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 09 Nov 2009
Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming
Yale School of Management and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit

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Academic research, Patents, Economic growth, Technology innovation, Publications, Science, Information dissemination, Innovation process

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Regional Disadvantage? Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Aug 2010
Matt Marx, Jasjit Singh, Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, INSEADINSEAD and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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non-compete agreements, labor mobility, technology policy, inventor migration, regional economics, patents

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Science as a Map in Technological Search

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Jan 2001
Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Yale School of Management
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basic science, recombinant search, technology management, complexity

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Innovation Search Strategy and Predictable Returns

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 07 Aug 2019
Texas A&M University - Department of Finance, KU Leuven - Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy, and Innovation, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business
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Innovation, Exploration, Exploitation, Patents, Market Efficiency, Limited Attention

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Lone Inventors as Source of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2009/31/ST, Management Science
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Jasjit Singh, Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming
INSEADINSEAD and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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Creativity, Collaboration, Invention, Innovation, Teams, Quantile, Diversity, Networks

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Penguins, Camels, and Other Birds of a Feather: Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 May 2005
Lee Fleming and David Waguespack
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and University of Maryland
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open source, brokerage, boundary spanning, leadership

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DCI Submission to the European Commission (EC) on Generative Artificial Intelligence

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Northeastern University, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Boston University - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, Universidade de São Paulo - FDRP/USP, European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW), European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) and University of California, Berkeley
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generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), market dynamics,

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Non-competes, Business Dynamism, and Concentration: Evidence from a Florida Case Study

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 29(3): 663-685 (2020).
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
Hyo Kang and Lee Fleming
Seoul National University and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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Business Dynamism; Employee Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Firm Sorting; Non-compete Agreement; Business Concentration

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What's in a (Missing) Name? Status and Signaling in Open Standards Development

NET Institute Working Paper No. 08-31
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Oct 2008
Timothy Simcoe, David Waguespack and Lee Fleming
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, University of Maryland and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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Where Does the Crowd Fund – And How Does It Matter to Regional Entrepreneurship?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Feb 2020
Sandy Yu and Lee Fleming
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit
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crowdfunding, entrepreneurship, regional economics, measures

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Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Inflow of Inventors

NBER Working Paper No. w27605
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 04 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2023
University of Luxembourg, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Seoul National University
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How do the benefits of science research localize geographically? Isolating the channel of interpersonal knowledge spillovers

Number of pages: 70
Lee Fleming, Benjamin Balsmeier and Sonja Lueck
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, University of Luxembourg and University of Paderborn
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diffusion of knowledge, science, causality, geography, location, innovation

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Harnessing Academic Science for Corporate Technology: The Role of Interpersonal Networks and Absorptive Capacity

Number of pages: 39 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2025
Lee Fleming, Sam Arts and Lena Veretennik
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) and KU Leuven - Department of Managerial Economics, Strategy, and Innovation
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Managing Creativity in Small Worlds

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 11 Nov 2009
Lee Fleming and Matt Marx
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

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Gatekeepers, Boundary spanning, Knowledge spillovers, Clusters, Creativity, Managers, Intermediaries, Social networks, High technology industries, Engineers, Scientists, Inventors, Inventions, Silicon Valley

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Technology as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data

Posted: 05 Sep 2000
Lee Fleming and Olav Sorenson
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Yale School of Management

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