Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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 54, issue 4, 2025

A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector

Jack Linzhou Xing and Naubahar Sharif

Genealogical academic inbreeding and its effect on performance: Evidence for scientists at Dutch universities (1815–1943)

Giovanna Capponi and Koen Frenken

More jobs for our foes? Global R&D strategy in the age of techno-nationalism

Hyungseok David Yoon, Evis Sinani, Marina Papanastassiou and Ioannis G. Economou

Tracing entrepreneurial spillovers: Evidence from the U.S. State Small Business Credit initiative and Kickstarter

Ouafaa Hmaddi, Lauren Lanahan and Alex Murray

Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay

Stefania Sardo and Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer

The effect of the degree of early-stage failure on entrepreneurial pivoting and success: Evidence from crowdfunding

Luca Berchicci and Mark Boons

The female finance penalty: Why are women less successful in academic finance than related fields?

Chris Brooks, Lisa Schopohl, Ran Tao, James Walker and Millie Zhu

Does patent fee reform lower the bar? Evidence from the deferred patent examination system in Japan

Masayo Kani and Yoichiro Nishimura

Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar

Ben Martin and W. Edward Steinmueller

Volume 54, issue 3, 2025

Access to science and innovation in the developing world

Alexander Cuntz, Frank Mueller-Langer, Alessio Muscarnera, Prince C. Oguguo and Marc Scheufen

Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation

Xin Deng, Hesham Ali and Heba Aboelkheir

Gender diversity in academic entrepreneurship: Social impact motives and the NSF I-corps program

April Burrage, Nilanjana Dasgupta and Ina Ganguli

Gender biases in assistant professor recruitment: Does discipline matter?

Heike Solga, Alessandra Rusconi and Sophie Hofmeister

Innovation and zombie firms: Empirical evidence from Italy

Andrea Ascani and Lakshmi Balachandran Nair

Digital technology and inclusive development during global crisis: Evidence from a randomised experiment in Bangladesh

Xiaolan Fu, Pervez Ghauri and Jianan Lu

Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies

Nuno Bento, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez and Noah Kittner

Accounting backgrounds and technological innovation: Are accountant CEOs inferior innovators?

Jian Cao, Feng Chen, Mingxiang Li and Xin Luo

Is the supermultiplier currently nil? - A replication study of Deleidi and Mazzucato (2021)

Jens Boysen-Hogrefe

Great expectations: The promises and limits of innovation policy in addressing societal challenges

Mart Laatsit, Markus Grillitsch and Lea Fünfschilling

Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration

Stefano Tasselli, Hongzhi Chen and Brian R. Dineen

A problem half-solved is a problem well-stated: Increasing the rate of innovation through team problem discovery

Johnathan R. Cromwell and Jean-François Harvey

Recessions, institutions, and regional exploration

Amit Kumar and Elisa Operti

Workforce sleep and corporate innovation

Gianni De Bruyn and Paul G. Freed

Cluster-based routines and paradigm-bound innovation

Pengfei Li

Dominance of leading business schools in top journals: Insights for increasing institutional representation

Rodrigo Romero-Silva, Erika Marsillac and Sander de Leeuw

The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia

Ellen Abrams, Paolo V. Leone, Alberto Cambrosio and Samer Faraj

Volume 54, issue 2, 2025

How symmetry between intrafirm knowledge and collaboration structures influences exploratory innovation under conditions of combinability

Arjan Markus, Juan Antonio Candiani and Victor A. Gilsing

Governance of knowledge development in a public-private partnership: NASA's efforts to design the Space Shuttle

Raja Roy

The entrepreneurial ecosystem clock keeps on ticking – A replication and extension of Coad and Srhoj (2023)

Jasper van Dijk, Jip Leendertse, Erik Stam and Frank van Rijnsoever

Can money buy scientific leadership? The impact of excellence programs on German and French universities

Nicolas Carayol and François Maublanc

“Meet me at the backdoor”: A multiple case study of academic entrepreneurs bypassing their technology transfer offices

Norrin Halilem and Balla Diop

Medical research and health care finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers

Pierre Azoulay, Misty Heggeness and Jennifer Kao

Implementing responsible research and innovation and sustainability assessment in research projects: A framework and application

Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Nadja El Benni and Mélanie Douziech

Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students

Mehdi Khodakarami, Fakhroddin MohammadRezaei, Amin Sarlak, Mukesh Garg and Zabihollah Rezaee

Does shareholder overlap alleviate patent holdup?

Heng Geng, Harald Hau, Sandy Lai and Pengfei Liu

Open innovation in ecosystems: Exploring how the affiliation of an ecosystem partner impacts the benefits of collaboration in open innovation

Sohvi Heaton and Jungwon Min

Interpretive aspects of claim language and patent scope

Srinivasan Ananthraman, Bart Cambré and Henry Delcamp

Volume 54, issue 1, 2025

Emotional brightness and crowdfunding performance

Jonathan Sitruk, Stine Grodal, Fernando Suarez and Ludovic Dibiaggio

Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?

Francesco Chirico, R. Duane Ireland, Daniel Pittino and Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso

The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations

Renate Kratochvil

Transformation of the governance of failure for radical innovation: The role of strategic leaders

Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Ximena Alejandra Flechas Chaparro, Rafaela Ferreira Maniçoba, Felipe Mendes Borini and Lucas Emmanuel Silva

More risk-averse or more innovative? The effect of women board membership and aspirations on patent activity

Stephen J. Smulowitz, Małgorzata Smulowitz and Didier Cossin

Innovation in libraries: A service-oriented perspective

Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal and Faïz Gallouj

Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective

Charitini Stavropoulou and Ian Viney

Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition

Chandrika Rathee, Sumeet Malik and Rossella Salandra

Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty

Julien Giorgi, Anne Plunket and Felipe Starosta de Waldemar

Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding

Douglas Cumming, Sofia Johan and Robert S. Reardon

Leading researchers in the leadership of leading research universities: Meta-research analysis

John P.A. Ioannidis

Climate change affectedness and innovation in firms

Jens Horbach and Christian Rammer

Servitization as a strategy for diffusing radical technologies: An analysis of U.S. top corporate R&D investors

Shukhrat Nasirov and Carolina Castaldi

A new mapping of technological interdependence

Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Barbara Guardabascio and Francesco Venturini

Patent litigation and narrative R&D disclosures: Evidence from the adoption of anti-troll legislation

Rui Huang, Jeong-Bon Kim, Louise Yi Lu, Dongyue Wang and Yangxin Yu

Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs

Pietro Santoleri and Emanuele Russo

A portfolio approach to research funding

Erik Canton

From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics

David Ayrapetyan, Nicolas Befort and Frans Hermans

Balancing the radical and the incremental: CEO affiliative humor and organizational ambidexterity

Robert J. Campbell, Cole E. Short and Scott D. Graffin

Consumption targeted innovation for women: From principle to practice?

Shai Oksenberg and Amos Zehavi

Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity

Jorge Uribe

Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation

Ireneusz Sadowski and Łukasz Zamęcki

What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment

Mauro Caselli, Andrea Fracasso, Sergio Scicchitano, Silvio Traverso and Enrico Tundis

Case study research on innovation systems: Paradox, dialectical analysis and resolution

Thanos Fragkandreas

From perfume to spirits: Exaptation of a bundle of local resources by an outsider entrepreneur

Pierpaolo Andriani, Gino Cattani, Rani J. Dang and Renata Kaminska

Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation

Jörn Block, Darius Lambrecht, Tom Willeke, Marco Cucculelli and Damiano Meloni

Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas

Michela Beretta, Dirk Deichmann, Lars Frederiksen and Daan Stam

Culture of impact in agricultural research organisations: What for and how?

Marie Ferré, Genowefa Blundo-Canto, Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues, María-Margarita Ramírez-Gómez, Graciela Luzia Vedovoto, Beatriz-Elena Agudelo-Chocontá, Daniela Vieira Marques, Roberto Manolio Valladão Flores, Gonzalo-Alfredo Rodríguez-Borray, Mirian Oliveira de Souza, Frédéric Goulet, Ángela-Rocío Vásquez-Urriago, Juliana-Ivonne Sánchez-Lozano, Daniela Maciel Pinto, Gregorio-Salomón Zambrano-Moreno, María-Aidé Londoño-Arias, Cristóbal-Alfonso Zapata-Tamayo and Aurelle de Romémont

Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high

Bai, John (Jianqiu), William Kerr, Chi Wan and Alptug Y. Yorulmaz

The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting

Daniel Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat

Adapting to policy changes: How firms' R&D responses affect their performance

Xue Gao, Fang Zhang and Siyang Jiang

Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective

Lorenzo Ardito, Ivan Miroshnychenko, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Alfredo De Massis

Assessing the productivity and abatement effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment

Jason Campbell and Steven Levkoff

Institutionalising the digital transition: The role of digital innovation intermediaries

Ana Colovic, Annalisa Caloffi, Federica Rossi and Margherita Russo

Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry

Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay

Interfaces, social information processing, and diversity cascades: How board diversity influences invention output

Daniel Z. Mack, Guoli Chen, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Yen Teik Lee and Gerard George

Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK

Daniel Garcia-Macia and Julia Korosteleva

The Nobel “Pride” Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition

Maximilian von Zedtwitz, Tobias Gutmann and Pascal Engelmann

Understanding the role of internal governance units in the process of social innovation: The case of Shared Lives Plus in England

Carl Purcell, Jill Manthorpe and Juliette Malley