Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 53, issue 10, 2024

Do the elite university projects promote scientific research competitiveness: Evidence from NSFC grants

Yujing Wang, Ping Li, Haoyu Gao and Meng Li

Public R&D investment in economic crises

Maikel Pellens, Bettina Peters, Martin Hud, Christian Rammer and Georg Licht

The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors

Byeongwoo Kang, Rudi Bekkers and Atsushi Ohyama

Beyond declarations: Metrics, rankings and responsible assessment

Anna Morgan-Thomas, Serafeim Tsoukas, Adina Dudau and Paweł Gąska

The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance

Yinghuan Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Yan Yan and Jiancheng Guan

How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation

Michael D. Howard, Priyanka Dwivedi, Laura D'Oria, Marjorie Lyles and Peter Inho Nahm

Volume 53, issue 9, 2024

Dynamics of imitation versus innovation in technological leadership change: Latecomers’ catch-up strategies in diverse technological regimes

Sungyong Chang, Hyunseob Kim, Jaeyong Song and Keun Lee

New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences

Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie

From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem

Gil Avnimelech and Assaf Amit

Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?

Wanyi Chen, Yiying Wang, Dongjing Wu and Xingqiang Yin

Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists

Meiling Li, Yang Wang, Haifeng Du and Aruhan Bai

Responding to incentives or gaming the system? How UK business academics respond to the Academic Journal Guide

Robert Hudson

When does international knowledge connectivity of global cities attract R&D investments? The role of concentrated ownership through organizational pipelines

Rene Belderbos, Geon Ho Lee, Ram Mudambi, Helen S. Du and Dieter Somers

Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET

Mine Ertugrul, Karthik Krishnan and Qianqian Yu

Volume 53, issue 8, 2024

ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?

Jay Prakash Nagar, Stefano Breschi and Andrea Fosfuri

Filling gaps in local knowledge and technology assurance: Informal intermediation in the diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in rural Kenya

Elise Harrington

Do R&D tax credits impact pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence from a synthetic control approach

Edward Oliver, Dimitrios Kourouklis and Mireia Jofre-Bonet

Dynamics of first-time patenting firms

Øivind Nilsen and Arvid Raknerud

Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector

Matteo Romagnoli

Connecting the dots between democracy and innovation: The role of pro-market institutions and information processing

Hyungseok Yoon, Christopher Boudreaux and Namil Kim

A case for simulated data and simulation-based models in organizational network research

Ivan Belik, Prasanta Bhattacharya and Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen

Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems

Nebojsa Stojcic

Enabling or accelerating? The timing of innovation and the different roles of venture capitalists

Andrej Gill, David Heller and Nina A. Michel

How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation

Samuel Adomako, Stephen Kehinde Medase and Stephen X. Zhang

Public interest v.s. special interest: The strategic framing tactics of technologies in the political arena

Yuni Wen

Missing women in STEM occupations: The impact of university education on the gender gap in graduates' transition to work

Azzurra Meoli, Evila Piva and Hérica Righi

Path release among practices in the process of path constitution: How the MP3-path appeared in the field of recorded music

Harry Sminia, Stephan Bohn and Jörg Sydow

Unexpectedness in medical research

Yasemin Aslan, Ohid Yaqub, Bhaven N. Sampat and Daniele Rotolo

Research-targeting, spillovers, and the direction of science: Evidence from HIV research-funding

Ohid Yaqub, Josie Coburn and Duncan A.Q. Moore

PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared

Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer, Dagmar Müller and Joacim Tåg

Volume 53, issue 7, 2024

Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK

Carolin Ioramashvili

Pandemic effects: Do innovation activities of firms suffer from Long COVID?

Markus Trunschke, Bettina Peters, Dirk Czarnitzki and Christian Rammer

What makes econometric ideas popular: The role of connectivity

Bertrand Candelon, Marc Joëts and Valérie Mignon

How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs

Jing A. Zhang, Conor O'Kane and Tao Bai

Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms

Nianchen Han, Yuchen Zhang and Tony W. Tong

How research agendas are framed: Insights for leadership, learning and spillover in science teams

Conor O'Kane, Vincent Mangematin, Jing A. Zhang and Jarrod Haar

Venture capital and the international relocation of startups

Stefan Weik, Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Reiner Braun

The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge

Georg Reischauer, Alexander Engelmann, Annabelle Gawer and Werner H. Hoffmann

Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity

Charles A.W. de Grazia, Alexander V. Giczy and Nicholas A. Pairolero

The partisanship of American inventors

Daniel Fehder, Florenta Teodoridis, Joseph Raffiee and Jino Lu

“The reality in the DRC is just not the reality in Rwanda” – How context factors affect transdisciplinary research projects

Rea Pärli, Moustapha Byamungu, Manuel Fischer, Speciose Kantengwa, Kokou Kintche, Matieyedou Konlambigue, Eva Lieberherr, Johan Six, Benjamin Wilde and Leonhard Späth

Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review

Shoeb Mohammad, Jie Yang and Irfan Butt

Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D

Tamay Besiroglu, Nicholas Emery-Xu and Neil Thompson

Employment protection laws and the commercialization of new products: A cross-country study

Maarten Cerpentier, Anja Schulze, Tom Vanacker and Shaker A. Zahra

Hedgehogs, foxes, and global science ecosystems: Decoding universities' research profiles across fields with nested ecological networks

Charles J. Gomez, Dahlia Lieberman and Elina I. Mäkinen

Responsible north–south research and innovation: A framework for transdisciplinary research leadership and management

Matthew A. French, S. Fiona Barker, Rebekah Henry, Amelia Turagabeci, Ancha Ansariadi, Autiko Tela, Diego Ramirez-Lovering, Fitriyanty Awaluddin, Ihsan Latief, Isoa Vakarewa, Ruzka R. Taruc, Tony Wong, Brett Davis, Rebekah Brown and Karin Leder

Innovation attitudes and religiosity

Duygu Buyukyazici and Francesco Serti

Volume 53, issue 6, 2024

Representation is not sufficient for selecting gender diversity

Justus Baron, Bernhard Ganglmair, Nicola Persico, Timothy Simcoe and Emanuele Tarantino

Robot adoption and product innovation

Davide Antonioli, Alberto Marzucchi, Francesco Rentocchini and Simone Vannuccini

Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance

David Bendig, Vincent Göttel, David Eckardt and Colin Schulz

Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act

Michele Cantarella, Nicolò Fraccaroli and Roberto Volpe

Fueling the fire? How government support drives technological progress and complexity

Carolin Nast, Tom Broekel and Doris Entner

Personality and regional innovativeness: An empirical analysis of German patent data

Leonie Reher, Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

When colleges graduate: Micro-level effects on publications and scientific organization

Olof Ejermo and Yotam Sofer

The yin yang of AI: Exploring how commercial and non-commercial orientations shape machine learning innovation

Edgar Brea

Does “Made in China 2025” work for China? Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Guangwei Li and Lee G. Branstetter

Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation

Mohammad Saleh Farazi, Paul Chiambaretto, Anne-Sophie Fernandez and Shanthi Gopalakrishnan

Perceived context typicality and beliefs in the generalizability of management research findings

Przemysław Hensel and Adam Tatarynowicz

Scientific decision-making, project selection and longer-term outcomes

Andrea Coali, Alfonso Gambardella and Elena Novelli

Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations

Yao Li, Jun Li, Kaihua Chen and Rongjian Yu

On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?

Philipp Baaden, Michael Rennings, Marcus John and Stefanie Bröring

Volume 53, issue 5, 2024

Schumpeter meets Teece: Proposed metrics for assessing entrepreneurial innovation and dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurial ecosystems in an emerging economy

Maribel Guerrero and Donald Siegel

Robots, meaning, and self-determination

Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen and Boris Nikolaev

Artificial intelligence and scientific discovery: a model of prioritized search

Ajay Agrawal, John McHale and Alexander Oettl

The emergence and historical evolution of innovation networks: On the factors promoting and hampering patent collaboration in technological lagging economies

Sergio Barbosa, Patricio Sáiz and José Zofío

How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey

Damien Rousselière, Marie J. Bouchard and Samira Rousselière

Is there a secular decline in disruptive patents? Correcting for measurement bias

Jeffrey T. Macher, Christian Rutzer and Rolf Weder

Effects of organizational innovative climate within organizations: The roles of Managers' proactive goal regulation and external environments

Tae-Yeol Kim, Xing Wang, Sebastian C. Schuh and Zhiqiang Liu

Heterogeneous university funding programs and regional firm innovation

Bastian Krieger

Volume 53, issue 4, 2024

Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry

Kyung Yul Lee, Hyun Ju Jung and Youngsun Kwon

Network pathways of peripheral firm entry: Empirical evidence from the global airline industry

Leonardo Corbo, Raffaele Corrado and Simone Ferriani

Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance

Yihui Cao, Robin C. Sickles, Thomas P. Triebs and Justin Tumlinson

Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries

Nicoletta Corrocher, Simone Grabner and Andrea Morrison

Reluctance to pursue breakthrough research: A signaling explanation

Damien Besancenot and Radu Vranceanu

Mentored without incubation: Start-up survival, funding, and the role of entrepreneurial support organization services

Paige Clayton

How technoscientific knowledge advances: A Bell-Labs-inspired architecture

Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Y. Tsao

Algorithmic management in scientific research

Maximilian Koehler and Henry Sauermann

An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector

Xin Yu and Jeroen P.J. de Jong

Financial market integration and the effects of financing constraints on innovation

David Heller

Volume 53, issue 3, 2024

Technology transfer challenges in asymmetric alliances between high-technology and low-technology firms

Christopher Simms and Johan Frishammar

Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction

Cornelia Lawson and Cindy Lopes-Bento

Style and quality: Aesthetic innovation strategy under weak appropriability

Kenny Ching, Enrico Forti, Spyridon Katsampes and Kostantinos Mammous

Digitalization and resilience

Alexander Copestake, Julia Estefania-Flores and Davide Furceri

Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies

Carliss Y. Baldwin, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, Rahul Kapoor and Joel West

Countries' research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals

Hugo Confraria, Tommaso Ciarli and Ed Noyons

Digital activism to achieve meaningful institutional change: A bricolage of crowdsourcing, social media, and data analytics

Vitali Mindel, Robert E. Overstreet, Henrik Sternberg, Lars Mathiassen and Nelson Phillips

Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy

Yang Li and Frank Neffke

The impact of robot adoption on global sourcing

Akin A. Cilekoglu, Rosina Moreno and Raul Ramos

From GitHub to GDP: A framework for measuring open source software innovation

Gizem Korkmaz, J. Bayoán Santiago Calderón, Brandon L. Kramer, Ledia Guci and Carol A. Robbins

The great divergence(s)

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

Are they coming for us? Industrial robots and the mental health of workers

Ana Lucia Abeliansky, Matthias Beulmann and Klaus Prettner

The effects of foreign entry on local innovation by entry mode

Giacomo Damioli and Giovanni Marin

The missing middle: Value capture in the market for startups

Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri and Thomas Rønde

Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective

René Bohnsack, Michael Rennings, Carolin Block and Stefanie Bröring

Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions

Javier Barbero, Olga Diukanova, Carlo Gianelle, Simone Salotti and Artur Santoalha

Volume 53, issue 2, 2024

Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems

David Howoldt

Technology, global value chains and functional specialisation in Europe

Filippo Bontadini, Rinaldo Evangelista, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona

University patent litigation in the United States: Do we have a problem?

Grazia Sveva Ascione, Laura Ciucci, Claudio Detotto and Valerio Sterzi

Being together in place as a catalyst for scientific advance

Eamon Duede, Misha Teplitskiy, Karim Lakhani and James Evans

Ecosystem disruption and regulatory positioning: Entry strategies of digital health startup orchestrators and complementors

Alessio Cozzolino and Susi Geiger

Public sector innovation in a city state: exploring innovation types and national context in Singapore

Emre Cinar, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Ahmet Coskun Acik and Chris Simms

Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs

Wesley W. Koo

Epidemic effects in the diffusion of emerging digital technologies: evidence from artificial intelligence adoption

Johannes Dahlke, Mathias Beck, Jan Kinne, David Lenz, Robert Dehghan, Martin Wörter and Bernd Ebersberger

Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment

Christian Peukert

Geography of authorship: How geography shapes authorship attribution in big team science

Jarno Hoekman and Bastian Rake

Perceiving an entrepreneurial climate at universities: An inquiry into how academic entrepreneurs observe, use, and benefit from support mechanisms

Andrea Greven, Thorsten Beule, Denise Fischer-Kreer and Malte Brettel

Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China

Xielin Liu, Xiaohui Ji and Shuang Ge

The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem

Roser Pujadas, Erika Valderrama and Will Venters

From early curiosity to space wide web: The emergence of the small satellite innovation ecosystem

Yue Song, Devi Gnyawali and Lihong Qian

Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement

Frank Neffke, Ljubica Nedelkoska and Simon Wiederhold

Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism

Fenglong Xiao and Yinjie Shen

The impact of early debut on scientists: Evidence from the Young Scientists Fund of the NSFC

Wanshu Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Hongshu Chen and Jia Liu

The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development

Vareska Van De Vrande, Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Moren Lévesque and Patricia Klopf

External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics

Juan M. Madera, Christiane Spitzmueller, Heyao Yu, Ebenezer Edema-Sillo and Mark S.F. Clarke

The technological imprinting of educational experiences on student startups

Margaret Dalziel and Nada Basir

Trademarks and firm market value: Evidence from new trademark-firm linked data in China

Yangao Xiao, Nianchen Han, Rui Li, Huaqing Ran, Shihao Zhou and Tony W. Tong

Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity

David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Farzana Chowdhury and Sameeksha Desai

Toward scientific collaboration: A cost-benefit perspective

Leyan Wu, Fan Yi, Yi Bu, Wei Lu and Yong Huang

Beyond the good and the right: Rethinking the ethics of academic entrepreneurship from a relational perspective

Nuria Toledano and Juan D. Gonzalez-Sanz

How do new university presidents affect research performance? Measuring the impact of pervious career paths in China

Nannan Yu, Yueyan Dong, Martin de Jong and Jinxing Yue

Volume 53, issue 1, 2024

Do technology standards induce innovation in environmental technologies when coordination is important?

Myriam Grégoire-Zawilski and David Popp

Gender homophily: In-group citation preferences and the gender disadvantage

Sifan Zhou, Sen Chai and Richard Freeman

Inventor mobility under uncertainty

Jordan Bisset, Dirk Czarnitzki and Thorsten Doherr

Diffusion to peers in firm-hosted user innovation communities: Contributions by professional versus amateur users

Max Mulhuijzen and Jeroen P.J. de Jong

What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity

Fabian Stephany and Ole Teutloff

Forced to innovate? Consequences of United States' anti-dumping sanctions on innovations of Chinese exporters

Kenneth G. Huang, Nan Jia and Yeyanran Ge

Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship

Michael E. Araki, Daniel L. Bennett and Gary A. Wagner

Vice-chancellor narcissism and university performance

Shee Yee Khoo, Pietro Perotti, Thanos Verousis and Richard Watermeyer

A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US

Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise

From product to platform: How incumbents' assumptions and choices shape their platform strategy

Marc Van Dyck, Dirk Lüttgens, Kathleen Diener, Frank Piller and Patrick Pollok

Managing multi-tiered innovation ecosystems

Andreas Reiter, Joachim Stonig and Karolin Frankenberger

Externalities and complementarities in platforms and ecosystems: From structural solutions to endogenous failures

Michael G. Jacobides, Carmelo Cennamo and Annabelle Gawer

The gender gap in PhD entrepreneurship: Why balancing employment in academia really matters

Alessandro Muscio and Giovanna Vallanti

Knowledge catalysts: The role of generalist incumbents in post-hiring knowledge integration

Di Tong and Lee, Jeongsik “Jay”

Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness

Marco Ceccagnoli, You-Na Lee and John P. Walsh

The material basis of modern technologies. A case study on rare metals

George Yunxiong Li, Andrea Ascani and Simona Iammarino