Research Policy

1971 - 2023

Current editor(s): M. Bell, B. Martin, W.E. Steinmueller, A. Arora, M. Callon, M. Kenney, S. Kuhlmann, Keun Lee and F. Murray

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Volume 52, issue 6, 2023

Short-term incentives of research evaluations: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework

Moqi Groen-Xu, Gregor Bös, Pedro A. Teixeira, Thomas Voigt and Bernhard Knapp

Topic choice, gendered language, and the under-funding of female scholars in mission-oriented research

Raffaele Mancuso, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra and Chiara Franzoni

In the name of TRIPS: The impact of IPR harmonisation on patent activity in Latin America

Valeria Arza, Andrés López, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Paulo Pascuini

Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking

Dize Dinçkol, Pinar Ozcan and Markos Zachariadis

Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations

Clemens Fiedler, Maria Larrain and Jens Prüfer

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique

Alex Coad and Stjepan Srhoj

How does late-career entrepreneurship relate to innovation?

Martin Murmann, Virva Salmivaara and Ewald Kibler

The S-shaped relationship between open innovation and financial performance: A longitudinal perspective using a novel text-based measure

Thomas Schäper, Christopher Jung, Johann Nils Foege, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, Stav Fainshmidt and Stephan Nüesch

Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means

Jakob Edler, Knut Blind, Henning Kroll and Torben Schubert

Editor home bias?

Amir Rubin, Eran Rubin and Dan Segal

Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures

Lutao Ning, Rui Guo and Kaihua Chen

Design thinking and public sector innovation: The divergent effects of risk-taking, cognitive empathy and emotional empathy on individual performance

Jarrod P. Vassallo, Sourindra Banerjee, Hasanuzzaman Zaman and Jaideep C. Prabhu

Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?

Jesús de Frutos-Belizón, Natalia García-Carbonell, Marta Ruíz-Martínez and Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey

Performance-based research funding: Evidence from the largest natural experiment worldwide

Albert Banal-Estañol, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Giulia Iori, Laia Maynou, Michele Tumminello and Pietro Vassallo

Fostering generativity in platform ecosystems: How open innovation and complexity interact to influence platform adoption

Iman Miremadi, Mostafa Khoshbash and MohammadMahdi Saeedian

Unpacking the intellectual structure of ecosystem research in innovation studies

Xianwei Shi, Xingkun Liang and Yining Luo

Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics

Luis Diestre, Fabrice Lumineau and Rodolphe Durand

Technological competition and patent strategy: Protecting innovation, preempting rivals and defending the freedom to operate

Riccardo Cappelli, Marco Corsino, Keld Laursen and Salvatore Torrisi

Volume 52, issue 5, 2023

Demand-pull, technology-push, and the direction of technological change

Kerstin Hötte

The dark side of signals: Patents protecting radical inventions and venture capital investments

Massimo G. Colombo, Massimiliano Guerini, Karin Hoisl and Nico M. Zeiner

Academic scientists in corporate R&D: A theoretical model

Catalina Martínez and Sarah Parlane

Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Alfons Palangkaraya

Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia

Caroline V. Fry, John Lynham and Shannon Tran

Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations

Eric A. Fong, Ravi Patnayakuni and Allen W. Wilhite

Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent

Giovanni Marin and Francesco Vona

Volume 52, issue 4, 2023

Firm exit from open multiparty alliances: The role of social influence, uncertainty, and interfirm imitation in collective technology development

Rand Gerges-Yammine and Anne L.J. Ter Wal

National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets

Afonso Amaral, M. Granger Morgan, Joana Mendonça and Erica R.H. Fuchs

Gender diversity in firm ownership: Direct and indirect effects on firm-level innovation across 29 emerging economies

Vartuhi Tonoyan and Christopher Boudreaux

Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments

Liwen Wang, Jason Lu Jin and Kevin Zheng Zhou

Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents

Fabrizio Fusillo

Hiding practices in employee-user innovation

Mia Rosa Hartmann and Rasmus Koss Hartmann

Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance

Jesus Valero-Gil, Jordi A. Surroca, Josep A. Tribo, Leopoldo Gutierrez and Ivan Montiel

Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ningning Zhang, Dingyi You, Le Tang and Ke Wen

Vaccine technology transfer in a global health crisis: Actors, capabilities, and institutions

Elize Massard da Fonseca, Kenneth C. Shadlen and Helena de Moraes Achcar

Continuing patent applications at the USPTO

Cesare Righi, Davide Cannito and Theodor Vladasel

Better educated children, better Internet-connected elderly parents

Lei Lei, Dandan Yu and Yang Zhou

Volume 52, issue 3, 2023

The heterogeneous effects of patent scope on licensing propensity

Honggi Lee

Global value chains and domestic innovation

Keiko Ito, Kenta Ikeuchi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis and Antonin Bergeaud

How does digital piracy affect innovation? Evidence from software firms

Wendy A. Bradley and Julian Kolev

Chilling effects of patent trolls

Feng Chen, Yu Hou, Jiaping Qiu and Gordon Richardson

Understanding regional innovation cultures: Narratives, directionality, and conservative innovation in Bavaria

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Alexander Wentland and Luise Ruge

Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China

Xiaosheng Ju, Shengjun Jiang and Qifeng Zhao

The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector

Max Mulhuijzen and Jeroen P.J. de Jong

Institutional logics and founders' identity orientation: Why academic entrepreneurs aspire lower venture growth

Bart Clarysse, Petra Andries, Sarah Boone and Jolien Roelandt

American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living

Tim Sainburg

Volume 52, issue 2, 2023

Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields

D’Este, Pablo and Nicolás Robinson-García

The determinants of AI innovation across European firms

Ioana Igna and Francesco Venturini

Differential “progressibility” in human know-how: A conceptual overview

John P. Nelson

Learning-by-hiring: How do rival firms learn from focal firm's hiring

Mayank Varshney

Are ideas being fished out?

Leonardo Klüppel and Anne Marie Knott

Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?

Muthu De Silva, Omar Al-Tabbaa and Jonathan Pinto

How and why accelerators enhance female entrepreneurship

Gil Avnimelech and Eyal Rechter

Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: Evidence from university versus corporate patents

Nancy Kong, Uwe Dulleck, Adam B. Jaffe, Shupeng Sun and Sowmya Vajjala

Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software

Sanjay Jain, Habib A. Islam, Martin C. Goossen and Anil Nair

Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs

Kostas Selviaridis, Alan Hughes and Martin Spring

Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?

Rachel Wynberg

From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity

Alexander Cuntz and Jan Peuckert

Towards an integrated framework for evaluating transformative innovation policy

Carolina R. Haddad and Anna Bergek

Catching-up during technological windows of opportunity: An industry product categories perspective

Claudio Giachetti and Deborah Tiniwah Mensah

Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector

Anabel Marin, Lilia Stubrin and Patrick van Zwanenberg

Geographic clusters, regional productivity and resource reallocation across firms: Evidence from China

Di Guo, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu and Xiyi Yang

Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance

Khaldoon Albitar, Habiba Al-Shaer and Yang Stephanie Liu

The impact of geographical distance on learning through collaboration

Frank van der Wouden and Hyejin Youn

Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Emma Lappi

Volume 52, issue 1, 2023

The digitalisation paradox of everyday scientific labour: How mundane knowledge work is amplified and diversified in the biosciences

Barbara Ribeiro, Robert Meckin, Andrew Balmer and Philip Shapira

Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries

Alberto Nonnis, Ahmed Bounfour and Keungoui Kim

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents

Rudi Bekkers, Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli, Cesare Righi and Timothy Simcoe

R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea

Yumi Koh and Gea M. Lee

Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry

Desirée F. Pacheco and Theodore A. Khoury

Business optimism and the innovation-profitability nexus: Introducing the COVID-19 adaptable capacity framework

King Yoong Lim and Diego Morris

Standing on the shoulders of giants: How star scientists influence their coauthors

Nathan Betancourt, Torsten Jochem and Sarah M.G. Otner

Entrepreneurial innovativeness: When too little or too much agglomeration hurts

Emilio Pindado, Mercedes Sánchez and Marian García Martínez

Practicing secrecy in open innovation – The case of a military firm

Jonathan Langlois, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and Romaric Servajean-Hilst

Public support of science: A contingent valuation study of citizens' attitudes about CERN with and without information about implicit taxes

Francesco Giffoni and Massimo Florio

Does fake news affect voting behaviour?

Michele Cantarella, Nicolò Fraccaroli and Roberto Volpe

Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting

Mary Kaltenberg, Adam B. Jaffe and Margie E. Lachman

Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications

Mafini Dosso, Lorenzo Cassi and Wilfriedo Mescheba

Productivity gains from migration: Evidence from inventors

Gabriele Pellegrino, Orion Penner, Etienne Piguet and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Research and market structure: Evidence from an antibiotic-resistant pathogenic outbreak

Mayank Aggarwal, Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Chirantan Chatterjee and Matthew J. Higgins

Incentivizing angels to invest in start-ups: Evidence from a natural experiment

Eliran Solodoha, Stav Rosenzweig and Shai Harel

We're in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU

Davide Consoli, Valeria Costantini and Elena Paglialunga

Do innovative firms pay higher wages? Micro-level evidence from Brazil

Xavier Cirera and Antonio Soares Martins-Neto

Technology transfer from national/federal labs and public research institutes: Managerial and policy implications

Donald Siegel, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, P. Devereaux Jennings and Lan Xue

Decertification in quality-management standards by incrementally and radically innovative organizations

Joseph Clougherty and Michał Grajek

Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?

Anna Lukkarinen and Armin Schwienbacher

Passing the torch of knowledge: Star death, collaborative ties, and knowledge creation

Rajat Khanna

Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage

Ashish Arora, Wesley Cohen, Honggi Lee and Divya Sebastian

Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation

Peter Scott and Anna Spadavecchia

Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings

Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska and Florenta Teodoridis

Do social policies foster innovation? Evidence from India's CSR regulation

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Swarnodeep Homroy

The effects of terrorist attacks on inventor productivity and mobility

Eliezer M. Fich, Tung Nguyen and Dimitris Petmezas

Acceptance of Chinese latecomers' technological contributions in international ICT standardization — The role of origin, experience and collaboration

Lennart Schott and Kerstin J. Schaefer

The quality of innovation “Booms” during “Busts”

Christos A. Makridis and Erin McGuire

Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona

Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science

Ruchir Agarwal, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Geoff Smith

How does co-authoring with a star affect scientists' productivity? Evidence from small open economies

Anil Yadav, John McHale and Stephen O'Neill

Are public subsidies effective for university spinoffs? Evidence from SBIR awards in the University of California system

Riccardo Fini, Markus Perkmann, Martin Kenney and Kanetaka M. Maki