Research Policy

1971 - 2026

Current editor(s): Anna Bergek, PhD, Alex Coad, PhD, Maryann Feldman, Elisa Giuliani, Adam B. Jaffe, Martin Kenney, Keun Lee, PhD, Ben Martin, MA, MSc, Kazuyuki Motohashi, Paul Nightingale, Ammon Salter, Maria Savona, Reinhilde Veugelers and John Walsh

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Volume 55, issue 4, 2026

The making of a funding call text: How funding professionals craft interdisciplinary research opportunities for Social Sciences and Humanities

Chris Foulds and Lara Houston

Do weak intellectual property rights regimes affect foreign multinational firms' technology exploration? The moderating role of function-related and location-related experience

Jie Hong, Dhruba Borah and Silvia Massini

Industrial policy and catching-up: State-owned enterprises in a North–South agent-based model

Lucrezia Fanti, Marcelo C. Pereira and Maria Enrica Virgillito

Does early regional scientific leadership translate into lasting patenting advantage?

Dragan Filimonovic, Christian Rutzer, Jeffrey T. Macher and Rolf Weder

Hold or hurry? Speed of imitation of rivals' innovations in changing technological landscapes

Claudio Giachetti and Marco Balzano

Sovereignty as a site of innovation: Institutional entrepreneurship in Native American tribal nations

Thomas G. Pittz, Carma M. Claw and Terry R. Adler

Institutional and capability enablers of firm-level emissions abatement under the EU Emissions Trading System

Panayiotis C. Andreou, Sofia Anyfantaki, Christos Cabolis and Konstantinos Dellis

Non-technological strategic alliances and public support for innovation: What are, if any, their links?

Santiago Acerenza, Liliana Gelabert, Martín Pereyra and Flavia Roldán

Green diversification, global knowledge sourcing and local skill composition: Evidence from the US

Alessandra Scandura, Gianluca Orsatti, Francesco Quatraro, Fabrizio Fusillo and Enrico Bergamini

Is research ethics discipline-specific? A survey of researchers' and ethics reviewers' views on research misconduct and questionable practices

Amanda M. Lindkvist, Lina Koppel, David Andersson, Daniel Västfjäll and Gustav Tinghög

The interpretive flexibility of smart grids: transitions, policy mixes and technology innovation systems in the Canadian Maritimes (2009–2022)

Maha M. Tantawy, David J.A. Foord and Daniel Rosenbloom

Ivory tower or transdisciplinarity? Measuring the preferences of scientists at public research institutes regarding academic engagement

Sebastian Heinen and Katja Bender

Technological diversification and the growth of regions in the short and long run

Silvia Rocchetta, Martina Iori, Andrea Mina and Robert Gillanders

Directing environmental innovation toward radical clean technologies for sustainable transitions: Market-based vs. command-and-control policies

Sebastian Gebhardt, Yun Hou and Masaru Yarime

Knowledge and behavioral spillovers from academic entrepreneurs: Preliminary evidence from the NSF I-corps regional program

Salome Opoku, Onnolee Nordstrom, Donald S. Siegel and David A. Waldman

Policy instrument mix balance for waste management in china: Under the policy-piloting scenario

Jingjing Zhang, Yan Yan, Yinghuan Wang and Guifang Luo

Rethinking scientific progress in the social sciences: disruptive or cumulative?

Jens Newig, Michael Rose, Zühre Aksoy, Simon Beaudoin, Thomas Bolognesi, Oliver Fritsch, Dries Hegger, Benjamin Hofmann, Nicolas W. Jager, Elke Kellner, Sina Leipold, Åsa Persson, Hens Runhaar and Robert Webb

Building entrepreneurial infrastructure: Discursive strategies and the development of China's venture financing system

Jiguo Qi, Wei Zhang and Steven White

Leading the crowd in open collaboration for discovery: The informational role of emotions under radical uncertainty

Alex Cayrol, Thomas Gillier and Olga Kokshagina

Optimizing economic complexity

Viktor Stojkoski and César A. Hidalgo

The sources of technological complexity in regions

Anthony Frigon

Postdoctoral mobility and returnees' careers in Italian academia

Massimiliano Coda Zabetta and Aldo Geuna

Towards disruptive sustainability: A multi-level analysis of business models driving sustainability transitions

Annabeth Aagaard

Pluriversal technologies: A decolonial typology of knowledge integration for disruptive sustainability

Thomas Bauwens, Martin Calisto Friant, Koen Beumer and Paola Velasco-Herrejón

Automated routing, patent examiner specialization, and quasi-random assignment at the USPTO

Nicholas A. Pairolero and Charles A.W. de Grazia

Entrepreneurs-as-Scientists and entrepreneurial team formation strategies: A randomized control trial experiment

Daniele Battaglia, Alessandra Colombelli, Andrea Panelli, Emilio Paolucci and Elisabetta Raguseo

Volume 55, issue 3, 2026

Inventing modern invention: The professionalization of technological progress in the US

Matte Hartog, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Ricardo Hausmann and Frank Neffke

Researcher positions and the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields – The case of synthetic biology

Philipp Baaden, Stefanie Bröring, Michael Rennings and Philip Shapira

Timing is key: Navigating venture capital funding for science-based startups

Andrea Fosfuri and Jay Prakash Nagar

The living lab and the cursed catalyst: Navigating the legitimacy challenges of innovation intermediaries for sustainable innovation

Cylien Gibert and Quentin Plantec

The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight

Campbell R. Harvey, Joel Hasbrouck and Fahad Saleh

Measuring R&D activity through 10-K narrative disclosures

Panayiotis C. Andreou, Neophytos Lambertides, Marina Magidou and Anna E. Maruska

Discriminatory R&D policy mix for small and large firms: Policy sequencing and behavioral responses

Xiaoyong Dai, Mengqi Wang and Kaihua Chen

Is the dominance of graduates from top-tier universities among tenured faculty driven by prestige or output? Evidence from 50 years of university appointments in Germany

Stefan Buechele, Guido Buenstorf, Matthias Huegel, Johannes Koenig and Maria Theissen

The effects of public procurement requirements and voluntary standards on environmental product innovation

Bastian Krieger and Anne Rainville

The software complexity of nations

Sándor Juhász, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski and César A. Hidalgo

How disruptive is financial technology?

Douglas Cumming, Hisham Farag, Santosh Koirala and Danny McGowan

Firm training, automation, and wages: International worker-level evidence

Oliver Falck, Yuchen Guo, Christina Langer, Valentin Lindlacher and Simon Wiederhold

Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists

Michael E. Rose, Katarína Juríková, Marina Pelepets, Olga Slivko and Julia Yereshko

From evidence to impact: The use of scientific research in policy documents

Andreas P. Distel, Christoph Grimpe and Marion Poetz

Volume 55, issue 2, 2026

Green industrial policy and latecomer catch-up: A missed green window of opportunity for domestic solar PV module manufacturers in Indonesia

Ulrich Elmer Hansen, Ivan Nygaard and Yohanes Berenika Kadarusman

Robots and the regionalization of global value chains

Roberto Antonietti, Chiara Burlina and Chiara Franco

European regions transitioning to green markets: the role of related capabilities and public procurement policies

Carolina Castaldi, Milad Abbasiharofteh and Sergio Petralia

Nourishing sustainability innovation: Scientific trajectories in industrial protein research

Marco S. Giarratana, Martina Pasquini and Markus Simeth

Entrepreneurial narratives, digital community discussion, and crowdfunding success

Marco Bade and Felix Reichenbach

Journal ratings changes: Implications for author diversity and research characteristics

Yang Su, Chris Brooks, Brian Lucey and Andrew Urquhart

Innovation under dual policies: The impact of R&D subsidies and emissions trading on green patenting in Sweden

Jessica Coria and Jūratė Jaraitė

Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan

Qianqian Jin, Hongshu Chen, Xuefeng Wang and Jia Liu

Harvesting or nurturing? Corporate venture capital and startup green innovation

David Wunder and Markku Maula

Who uses AI in research, and for what? Large-scale survey evidence from Germany

Marina Chugunova, Dietmar Harhoff, Katharina Hölzle, Verena Kaschub, Sonal Malagimani, Ulrike Morgalla and Robert Rose

Scientific and industrial specialisation, structural change and economic growth: Global evidence

Aurora A.C. Teixeira and Alexandre Pinto

Network centrality and creativity in the board game industry: Crowdfunding as a contingency

Lukas Vogelgsang, Markus Baer and Martin Hoegl

Connecting creativity and innovation research: Building bridges to cross divides

Bernard Nijstad, Goran Calic, Pedro de Faria, Christoph Grimpe and Olli-Pekka Kauppila

Knowledge dependence in global value chains

Lingling Qin and Sunny Li Sun

The effect of publicly co-funded industry-science collaboration on scientific production

Paul Hünermund, Cindy Lopes-Bento and Maikel Pellens

Rethinking the Third Mission: Organizing dissonance in transformative universities

Gesa Pflitsch and Max-Peter Menzel

The survival effects of non-R&D induced innovation during crisis

Jun Hou

Neighborhood clusters and citywide technological diversification

Ziyu Chen, Xiaohu Zhang and Frank van der Wouden

External search for specialized knowledge and green new product development speed: A dual mediation mechanism and moderating role of absorptive capacity

Hoàng Thu Thảo, Huy-Cuong Vo-Thai and Trong Tuan Luu

Impact of digital transformation technology adoption on worker wages

Seungil Lee and Jungsoo Park

Sex, science, and society

Renée B. Adams and Jing Xu

Slaying the undead: How long does it take to kill zombie papers?

Marc Joëts and Valérie Mignon

Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up

Erez Maggor and Erez Aharon Marantz

Retrovation typology: Exploiting and exploring past knowledge for nostalgic and sustainable innovation

I. De Noni, S. Blasi and E. Sabbadin

Navigating sustainability paradoxes: Unveiling the dynamics of transformative change in the food industry

Nhat Strøm-Andersen, Julia Szulecka, Markus M. Bugge and Ellen-Marie Forsberg

Managing multi-stakeholder co-creation to address grand challenges: The role of paradox management capabilities

Muthu De Silva, Federica Rossi and Caroline Paunov

Volume 55, issue 1, 2026

Revisiting speed of imitation from a competitive dynamics perspective

Marco Balzano and Claudio Giachetti

Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises

Mirko Hirschmann, Joern H. Block and Gorgi Krlev

Not all success is created equal: The innovation costs of extreme success

Hung M. Dao, Selina L. Lehmann, Oguz A. Acar and Dirk Deichmann

The direction of innovation and work from home

Chungeun Yoon

The geography of novel and atypical research

Qing Ke, Tianxing Pan and Jin Mao

Commercialize or sleep? Capturing value from patenting

Du Liu and Danmo Lin

300 years of British patents

Enrico Berkes, Matthew Lee Chen and Matteo Tranchero

Deliberate exploratory search in technology innovation: Discovering and developing need-solution pairs

Kathrin Reinsberger, Vegard Kolbjørnsrud and Barbara Mehner

Risk in science: The socialization of risk-taking in early-career training

Sotaro Shibayama, Pauline Mattsson and Anders Broström

Contextualizing policy mixes – A configurational study on rapid transitions

Jouni K. Juntunen and Shah Rukh Shakeel

Do mission-oriented grant schemes shape the direction of science?

Raffaele Mancuso and Anders Broström

STEM employment resiliency during recessions: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

James C. Davis, Holden A. Diethorn, Gerald R. Marschke and Andrew J. Wang

Knowledge spillover of innovation: Entrepreneurial difference

David B. Audretsch and Maksim Belitski

How transparency shapes tax policy effectiveness: Evidence from cryptocurrency markets

Lin William Cong, Vicki Wei Tang and Tony Qingquan Zhang

Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources

Siqiao Luan, Nola Hewitt-Dundas and Stephen Roper

Knowledge ecosystem emergence: Organizing participation, identity, and actorhood to bridge the governance void

Ermal Hetemi, Paavo Ritala and Anna Jerbrant

The impact of digital trade rules on firms' international joint patent applications

Bin Liu, Chunmiao Liu, Chuanchuan Li and Xiao Chen

Pre-entry experience and the heterogeneity in startup performance: Evidence from the nascent artificial intelligence industry

Aliasghar Bahoo-Torodi, Roberto Fontana and Franco Malerba

FDI dominance and the scope for a modern domestic industry

Nguyen Chau Trinh, Pham Thi Thu Tra, Ha Thi Cam Van and Dao Le Trang Anh

Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020

Andrea Montaño Ramirez and Alexander M. Petersen

The impact of ISO standards on the diffusion of scientific knowledge

Peter Neuhäusler and Knut Blind

Does market engagement in public procurement foster innovation? Results from a Pan-European survey

Pelle Berkhout, Anne Rainville, Matthijs Janssen and Koen Frenken