Jeffrey L. Furman

Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy

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Measuring the Direction of Innovation: Frontier Tools in Unassisted Machine Learning

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2023
Florenta Teodoridis, Jino Lu and Jeffrey L. Furman
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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Innovation, topic modeling, machine learning, knowledge landscape, distance in knowledge space, movement in knowledge space, diversity, knowledge trajectories, rate and direction of innovation

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Firm Performance and State Innovation Funding: Evidence from China's Innofund Program

Research Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2022
Yanbo Wang, Jizhen Li and Jeffrey L. Furman
University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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innovation policy, R&D subsidies, entrepreneurial finance, regression discontinuity, political connections, bureaucratic intervention, China

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

NBER Working Paper No. w7876
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2022
Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Posted: 29 Aug 2001
Scott Stern, Michael E. Porter and Jeffrey L. Furman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Harvard University - Strategy Unit and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy

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Automation, Research Technology, and Researchers’ Trajectories: Evidence from Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2019
Jeffrey L. Furman and Florenta Teodoridis
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Automation, Knowledge Production, Innovation, Research Technology, Rate and Direction of Innovation, Technological Change, Topic Modeling, Machine Learning, Idea Space, Research Trajectories, Knowledge Trajectories, Diversification, Breadth and Depth of Knowledge

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The Cost of Research Tools and the Direction of Innovation: Evidence from Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2018
Jeffrey L. Furman and Florenta Teodoridis
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Direction of Innovation, Research Costs

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Governing Knowledge in the Scientific Community: Exploring the Role of Retractions in Biomedicine

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Mar 2012
Jeffrey L. Furman, Kyle Jensen and Fiona Murray
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center
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retractions, knowledge production, scientific institutions, science policy, false science

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Disclosure and Subsequent Innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library Program

NBER Working Paper No. w24660
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 04 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2023
Jeffrey L. Furman, Markus Nagler and Martin Watzinger
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg-Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
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Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

NBER Working Paper No. w12509
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2022
Jeffrey L. Furman, Margaret Kyle, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain M. Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy, University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), London Business School, Boston University Questrom School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

NBER Working Paper No. w12523
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Migration and Global Network Formation: Evidence from Female Scientists in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Sep 2022
Caroline V. Fry and Jeffrey L. Furman
University of Hawaii at Manoa - UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII - Shidler College of Business and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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Retractions

NBER Working Paper No. w18499
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2023
Pierre Azoulay, Jeffrey L. Furman, Joshua Krieger and Fiona Murray
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center
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Early Academis Science and the Birth of Industrial Research Laboratories in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w11470
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022
Megan MacGarvie and Jeffrey L. Furman
Boston University School of Management and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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Social Globalization and Design Innovation

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 May 2023
Po-Hsuan Hsu, Long Yi and Jeffrey L. Furman
National Tsing Hua University - Department of Quantitative Finance, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) - Department of Finance and Decision Sciences and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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social globalization, creativity, innovation, designs, trade, productivity

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Mapping the Knowledge Space: Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools

NBER Working Paper No. w30603
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 31 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022
Florenta Teodoridis, Jinhing Lu and Jeffrey L. Furman
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy
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Academic Collaboration and Organizational Innovation: The Development of Research Capabilities in the US Pharmaceutical Industry, 1927-1946

Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 18, Issue 5, pp. 929-961, 2009
Posted: 05 Oct 2009
Jeffrey L. Furman and Megan MacGarvie
Boston University - Department of Strategy & Policy and Boston University School of Management

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