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Overview

Lee Fleming is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research broadly spans the fields of economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting. Specifically, their work covers multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, management of technology and innovation, accounting, management information systems, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's published work addresses key topics such as firm innovation and growth, fintech, crowdfunding and digital finance, innovation policy and research and development, entrepreneurship studies and influences, economic growth and productivity, private equity and venture capital, as well as microfinance and financial inclusion.

Frequent venues for publishing research include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Research Policy
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Management Science

Lee Fleming has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Benjamin Balsmeier
  • Matt Marx
  • Gustavo Manso
  • Seungryul Ryan Shin
  • Olav Sorenson

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Innovation Search Strategy and Predictable Returns," 2020, Management Science
  • "Isolating Personal Knowledge Spillovers: Coinventor Deaths and Spatial Citation Differentials," 2023, American Economic Review Insights
  • "Regional crowdfunding and high tech entrepreneurship," 2021, Research Policy
  • "Heterogeneous Innovation over the Business Cycle," 2021, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • "Early Disclosure of Invention and Reduced Duplication: An Empirical Test," 2020, Management Science

Lee Fleming has also contributed to books published by The Berkeley-Haas Case Series at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business eBooks. Titles include:

  • "Aptera: Technology and Manufacturing Choices (B)," 2022
  • "Aptera: The First Time Around (A)," 2022
  • "Aptera: The Future of Financing (C)," 2022

Best Publications

  • Recombinant Uncertainty in Technological Search

    Lee Fleming

  • Science as a map in technological search

    Lee Fleming;Olav Sorenson

  • Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent data

    Lee Fleming;Olav Sorenson

  • Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success:

    Lee Fleming;Santiago Mingo;David Chen

  • Complexity, networks and knowledge flow

    Olav Sorenson;Jan W. Rivkin;Lee Fleming

  • Small Worlds and Regional Innovation

    Lee Fleming;Charles King;Adam I. Juda

  • Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities

    Lee Fleming;David M. Waguespack

  • Lone Inventors as Sources of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

    Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

  • Independent Boards and Innovation

    Benjamin Balsmeier;Lee Fleming;Gustavo Manso

  • Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

    Matt Marx;Deborah Strumsky;Lee Fleming

  • Disambiguation and co-authorship networks of the U.S. patent inventor database (1975-2010)

    Guan-Cheng Li;Ronald Lai;Alexander D’Amour;David M. Doolin

  • Science and the diffusion of knowledge

    Olav Sorenson;Lee Fleming

  • Managing Creativity in Small Worlds

    Lee Fleming;Matt Marx

  • Breakthroughs and the ¿Long Tail¿ of Innovation

    Lee Fleming

  • Time Pressure and Creativity in Organizations: A Longitudinal Field Study

    Teresa M. Amabile;Jennifer S. Mueller;William B. Simpson;Constance N. Hadley

  • Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett‐Packard's thermal ink‐jet

    Lee Fleming

  • THE EVOLUTION OF INVENTOR NETWORKS IN THE SILICON VALLEY AND BOSTON REGIONS

    Lee Fleming;Koen Frenken

  • Expand innovation finance via crowdfunding.

    Olav Sorenson;Valentina Assenova;Guan-Cheng Li;Jason Boada

  • Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation

    Lee Fleming;Hillary Greene;Guan-Cheng Li;Matt Marx

  • Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain

    Matt Marx;Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

  • Lone Inventors as Source of Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

    Jasjit Singh;Lee Fleming

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

    Lee Fleming;David Waguespack

Frequent Co-Authors

Koen Frenken
Koen Frenken Utrecht University
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles
Teresa M. Amabile
Teresa M. Amabile Harvard University

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