Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 44, issue 10, 2015

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms pp. 1795-1814

Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi and Daniele Moschella

Strategic switchbacks: Dynamic commercialization strategies for technology entrepreneurs pp. 1815-1826

Matt Marx and David H. Hsu

What is an emerging technology? pp. 1827-1843

Daniele Rotolo, Diana Hicks and Ben Martin

The impact of R&D subsidies during the crisis pp. 1844-1855

Martin Hud and Katrin Hussinger

Market failure in the diffusion of consumer-developed innovations: Patterns in Finland pp. 1856-1865

Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Eric von Hippel, Fred Gault, Jari Kuusisto and Christina Raasch

‘Indigenous’ innovation with heterogeneous risk and new firm survival in a transitioning Chinese economy pp. 1866-1876

Anthony Howell

Broadening, deepening, and governing innovation: Flemish technology assessment in historical and socio-political perspective pp. 1877-1886

Michiel van Oudheusden, Nathan Charlier, Benedikt Rosskamp and Pierre Delvenne

Persistence of various types of innovation analyzed and explained pp. 1887-1901

Sam Tavassoli and Charlie Karlsson

Institutions and diversification: Related versus unrelated diversification in a varieties of capitalism framework pp. 1902-1914

Ron Boschma and Gianluca Capone

Why do SMEs file trademarks? Insights from firms in innovative industries pp. 1915-1930

Joern Block, Christian O. Fisch, Alexander Hahn and Philipp G. Sandner

A revealed preference analysis of PhD students’ choices over employment outcomes pp. 1931-1947

Annamaria Conti and Fabiana Visentin

Just-in-time patents and the development of standards pp. 1948-1961

Byeongwoo Kang and Rudi Bekkers

Explaining export diversification through firm innovation decisions: The case of Brazil pp. 1962-1973

Xavier Cirera, Anabel Marin and Ricardo Markwald

Situated novelty: Introducing a process perspective on the study of innovation pp. 1974-1984

M. Janssen, A.M.V. Stoopendaal and K. Putters

Volume 44, issue 9, 2015

The New Data Frontier pp. 1629-1632

Maryann Feldman, Martin Kenney and Francesco Lissoni

Bringing the lab back in: Personnel composition and scientific output at the MIT Department of Biology pp. 1633-1644

Annamaria Conti and Christopher C. Liu

SiSOB data extraction and codification: A tool to analyze scientific careers pp. 1645-1658

Aldo Geuna, Rodrigo Kataishi, Manuel Toselli, Eduardo Guzmán, Cornelia Lawson, Ana Fernandez-Zubieta and Beatriz Barros

New linked data on research investments: Scientific workforce, productivity, and public value pp. 1659-1671

Julia Lane, Jason Owen-Smith, Rebecca F. Rosen and Bruce Weinberg

Seeing the non-stars: (Some) sources of bias in past disambiguation approaches and a new public tool leveraging labeled records pp. 1672-1701

Samuel L. Ventura, Rebecca Nugent and Erica R.H. Fuchs

Does involvement in patenting jeopardize one’s academic footprint? An analysis of patent-paper pairs in biotechnology pp. 1702-1713

Tom Magerman, Bart Van Looy and Koenraad Debackere

Mapping digital businesses with big data: Some early findings from the UK pp. 1714-1733

Max Nathan and Anna Rosso

Dynamic patterns of industry convergence: Evidence from a large amount of unstructured data pp. 1734-1748

Namil Kim, Hyeokseong Lee, Wonjoon Kim, Hyunjong Lee and Jong Hwan Suh

Identifying geographic clusters: A network analytic approach pp. 1749-1762

Roberto Catini, Dmytro Karamshuk, Orion Penner and Massimo Riccaboni

Tracking the internationalization of multinational corporate inventive activity: national and sectoral characteristics pp. 1763-1772

Floortje Alkemade, Gaston Heimeriks, Antoine Schoen, Lionel Villard and Patricia Laurens

Gender, ethnicity and entrepreneurship in initial public offerings: illustrations from an open database* pp. 1773-1784

Martin Kenney and Donald Patton

Triangulating regional economies: Realizing the promise of digital data pp. 1785-1793

Maryann Feldman and Nichola Lowe

Volume 44, issue 8, 2015

National innovation systems and the intermediary role of industry associations in building institutional capacities for innovation in developing countries: A critical review of the literature pp. 1407-1418

Andrew Watkins, Theo Papaioannou, Julius Mugwagwa and Dinar Kale

Solver engagement in knowledge sharing in crowdsourcing communities: Exploring the link to creativity pp. 1419-1430

Marian Garcia Martinez

Another cluster premium: Innovation subsidies and R&D collaboration networks pp. 1431-1444

Tom Broekel, Dirk Fornahl and Andrea Morrison

Identifying the sources of technological novelty in the process of invention pp. 1445-1461

Deborah Strumsky and José Lobo

Assessing an experimental approach to industrial policy evaluation: Applying RCT+ to the case of Creative Credits pp. 1462-1472

Hasan Bakhshi, John S. Edwards, Stephen Roper, Judy Scully, Duncan Shaw, Lorraine Morley and Nicola Rathbone

The direction of firm innovation: The contrasting roles of strategic alliances and individual scientific collaborations pp. 1473-1487

Jan Hohberger, Paul Almeida and Pedro Parada

How novelty in knowledge earns recognition: The role of consistent identities pp. 1488-1500

Denis Trapido

Inside the black box of outcome additionality: Effects of early-stage government subsidies on resource accumulation and new venture performance pp. 1501-1512

Anna Söderblom, Mikael Samuelsson, Johan Wiklund and Rickard Sandberg

Selling science: Resource mobilization strategies in the emerging field of nanotechnology pp. 1513-1526

Jade Yu-Chieh Lo

European risk governance of nanotechnology: Explaining the emerging regulatory policy pp. 1527-1536

Ronit Justo-Hanani and Tamar Dayan

Knowledge goods, ordinary goods, and the effects of trade between leading and lagging regions pp. 1537-1542

Amitrajeet Batabyal and Hamid Beladi

Conceptualising multi-regime interactions: The role of the agriculture sector in renewable energy transitions pp. 1543-1554

Lee-Ann Sutherland, Sarah Peter and Lukas Zagata

Disruption in the US machine tool industry: The role of inhouse users and pre-disruption component experience in firm response pp. 1555-1565

Raja Roy and Susan K. Cohen

Co-owner relationships conducive to high quality joint patents pp. 1566-1573

Kristie Briggs

Companies learning to innovate in recessions pp. 1574-1583

Mario Amore

The bureaucratization of science pp. 1584-1600

John P. Walsh and You-Na Lee

Does the outsourcing of prior art search increase the efficiency of patent examination? Evidence from Japan pp. 1601-1614

Isamu Yamauchi and Sadao Nagaoka

Who captures value from science-based innovation? The distribution of benefits from GMR in the hard disk drive industry pp. 1615-1628

Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer

Volume 44, issue 7, 2015

How European public sector agencies innovate: The use of bottom-up, policy-dependent and knowledge-scanning innovation methods pp. 1271-1282

Anthony Arundel, Luca Casali and Hugo Hollanders

How do firms develop capabilities for scientific disclosure? pp. 1283-1295

Markus Simeth and Stephane Lhuillery

A comparative study of technological learning and organizational capability development in complex products systems: Distinctive paths of three latecomers in military aircraft industry pp. 1296-1313

Joosung J. Lee and Hyungseok Yoon

Impact of stronger patent regimes on technology transfer: The case study of Thai automotive industry pp. 1314-1326

Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Peera Charoenporn

Knowledge stocks, knowledge flows and innovation: Evidence from matched patents and innovation panel data pp. 1327-1340

Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas

Determinants of university–firm R&D collaboration and its impact on innovation: A perspective from a low-tech industry pp. 1341-1359

Ornella Maietta

Composition of inventor teams and technological progress – The role of collaboration between academia and industry pp. 1360-1375

Friedrich Dornbusch and Peter Neuhäusler

Reorganising global value chains and building innovation capabilities in Brazil and India pp. 1376-1386

Rasmus Lema, Ruy Quadros and Hubert Schmitz

Multilevel innovation policy mix: A closer look at state policies that augment the federal SBIR program pp. 1387-1402

Lauren Lanahan and Maryann P. Feldman

Volume 44, issue 6, 2015

Project selection in NIH: A natural experiment from ARRA pp. 1145-1159

Hyunwoo Park, Lee, Jeongsik (Jay) and Byung-Cheol Kim

The double-edged sword of industry collaboration: Evidence from engineering academics in the UK pp. 1160-1175

Albert Banal-Estanol, Mireia Jofre-Bonet and Cornelia Lawson

The engagement gap pp. 1176-1191

Valentina Tartari and Ammon Salter

Protecting aesthetic innovations? An exploration of the use of registered community designs pp. 1192-1206

Rainer Filitz, Joachim Henkel and Bruce S. Tether

The role of home country demand in the internationalization of new ventures pp. 1207-1225

Johann Peter Murmann, Salih Zeki Ozdemir and Deepak Sardana

Big from the beginning: Assessing online contributors’ behavior by their first contribution pp. 1226-1239

Sylvain Dejean and Nicolas Jullien

Latecomer firm strategies in complex product systems (CoPS): The case of Iran’s thermal electricity generation systems pp. 1240-1251

Mehdi Kiamehr, Mike Hobday and Mohsen Hamedi

Understanding the emergence of new science and technology policies: Policy entrepreneurship, agenda setting and the development of the European Framework Programme pp. 1252-1265

Jakob Edler and Andrew D. James

The big consequences of small biases: A simulation of peer review pp. 1266-1270

Theodore Eugene Day

Volume 44, issue 5, 2015

How does information technology improve aggregate productivity? A new channel of productivity dispersion and reallocation pp. 999-1016

Hyunbae Chun, Jung-Wook Kim and Jason Lee

Transition pathways revisited: Established firms as multi-level actors in the heavy vehicle industry pp. 1017-1028

Christian Berggren, Thomas Magnusson and Dedy Sushandoyo

Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry (1979–2012): An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model pp. 1029-1048

Caetano Penna and Frank W. Geels

Quality signals? The role of patents, alliances, and team experience in venture capital financing pp. 1049-1064

Daniel Hoenig and Joachim Henkel

Internal and external effects of R&D subsidies and fiscal incentives: Empirical evidence using spatial dynamic panel models pp. 1065-1079

Benjamin Montmartin and Marcos Herrera

The open eco-innovation mode. An empirical investigation of eleven European countries pp. 1080-1093

Claudia Ghisetti, Alberto Marzucchi and Sandro Montresor

Smart innovation policy: How network position and project composition affect the diversity of an emerging technology pp. 1094-1107

Frank J. van Rijnsoever, Jesse van den Berg, Joost Koch and Marko P. Hekkert

Which factors drive the decision to opt out of individual research rankings? An empirical study of academic resistance to change pp. 1108-1115

Michael Berlemann and Justus Haucap

A taxonomy of multi-industry labour force skills pp. 1116-1132

Davide Consoli and Francesco Rentocchini

Open data partnerships between firms and universities: The role of boundary organizations pp. 1133-1143

Markus Perkmann and Henri Schildt

Volume 44, issue 4, 2015

Do the effects of R&D tax credits vary across industries? A meta-regression analysis pp. 819-832

Fulvio Castellacci and Christine Lie

Knowledge flows and the absorptive capacity of regions pp. 833-848

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno

How does public agricultural research impact society? A characterization of various patterns pp. 849-861

A. Gaunand, A. Hocdé, Stéphane Lemarié, Mireille Matt and E.de Turckheim

Management of science, serendipity, and research performance: Evidence from a survey of scientists in Japan and the U.S pp. 862-873

Kota Murayama, Makoto Nirei and Hiroshi Shimizu

An organizational perspective to funding science: Collaborator novelty at DARPA pp. 874-887

Phech Colatat

Layers of co-existing innovation systems pp. 888-910

Johannes Meuer, Christian Rupietta and Uschi Backes-Gellner

Exploring the relationship between multiple team membership and team performance: The role of social networks and collaborative technology pp. 911-924

Fabiola Bertolotti, Elisa Mattarelli, Matteo Vignoli and Diego Maria Macrì

Does governmental venture capital spur invention and innovation? Evidence from young European biotech companies pp. 925-935

Fabio Bertoni and Tereza Tykvova

Impact-oriented science policies and scientific publication practices: The case of life sciences in Japan pp. 936-950

Sotaro Shibayama and Yasunori Baba

Intellectual property protection in plant varieties: A worldwide index (1961–2011) pp. 951-964

Mercedes Campi and Alessandro Nuvolari

Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms’ propensity to innovate pp. 965-976

Helen McGuirk, Helena Lenihan and Mark Hart

R&D outsourcing and intellectual property infringement pp. 977-989

Philipp Buss and Christian Peukert

Scientific yield from collaboration with industry: The relevance of researchers’ strategic approaches pp. 990-998

Julie Callaert, Paolo Landoni, Bart Van Looy and Roberto Verganti

Volume 44, issue 3, 2015

The impact of multilevel networks on innovation pp. 545-559

Jiancheng Guan, Jingjing Zhang and Yan Yan

The user dominated technology era: Dynamics of dispersed peer-innovation pp. 560-576

Sampsa Hyysalo and Svetlana Usenyuk

Demand-pull and technology-push public support for eco-innovation: The case of the biofuels sector pp. 577-595

Valeria Costantini, Francesco Crespi, Chiara Martini and Luca Pennacchio

Foreign multinationals and domestic innovation: Intra-industry effects and firm heterogeneity pp. 596-609

Riccardo Crescenzi, Luisa Gagliardi and Simona Iammarino

Organizational design of University laboratories: Task allocation and lab performance in Japanese bioscience laboratories pp. 610-622

Sotaro Shibayama, Yasunori Baba and John P. Walsh

Can R&D subsidies counteract the economic crisis? – Macroeconomic effects in Germany pp. 623-633

Hans-Ulrich Brautzsch, Jutta Günther, Brigitte Loose, Udo Ludwig and Nicole Nulsch

Non-tenured post-doctoral researchers’ job mobility and research output: An analysis of the role of research discipline, department size, and coauthors pp. 634-650

Agnes Bäker

The evolution of networks of innovators within and across borders: Evidence from patent data pp. 651-668

Andrea Morescalchi, Fabio Pammolli, Orion Penner, Alexander M. Petersen and Massimo Riccaboni

Linking emission trading to environmental innovation: Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry pp. 669-683

Simone Borghesi, Giulio Cainelli and Massimiliano Mazzanti

Creativity in scientific teams: Unpacking novelty and impact pp. 684-697

You-Na Lee, John P. Walsh and Jian Wang

Crossing the innovation threshold through mergers and acquisitions pp. 698-710

Elena Cefis and Orietta Marsili

Internal capabilities, network resources and appropriation mechanisms as determinants of R&D outsourcing pp. 711-725

Andre Spithoven and Peter Teirlinck

Demand-side vs. supply-side technology policies: Hidden treatment and new empirical evidence on the policy mix pp. 726-747

Marco Guerzoni and Emilio Raiteri

Economic impact of entrepreneurial universities’ activities: An exploratory study of the United Kingdom pp. 748-764

Maribel Guerrero, James A. Cunningham and David Urbano

The rate and motives of the internationalisation of large firm R&D (1994–2005): Towards a turning point? pp. 765-776

Patricia Laurens, Christian Le Bas, Antoine Schoen, Lionel Villard and Philippe Larédo

Rapid improvements with no commercial production: How do the improvements occur? pp. 777-788

Jeffrey L. Funk and Christopher L. Magee

Competition for talent. Country and organizational-level effects in the internationalization of European higher education institutions pp. 789-802

B. Lepori, M. Seeber and A. Bonaccorsi

Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: The role of region-specific institutions pp. 803-817

Mario Kafouros, Chengqi Wang, Panagiotis Piperopoulos and Mingshen Zhang

Volume 44, issue 2, 2015

And the winner is—Acquired. Entrepreneurship as a contest yielding radical innovations pp. 295-310

Joachim Henkel, Thomas Rønde and Marcus Wagner

The geographic origins of radical technological paradigms: A configurational study pp. 311-327

Brett Anitra Gilbert and Joanna Tochman Campbell

When less can be more – Setting technology levels in complementary goods markets pp. 328-339

Jörg Claussen, Christian Essling and Tobias Kretschmer

Trust and the market for technology pp. 340-356

Paul Jensen, Alfons Palangkaraya and Elizabeth Webster

The modern drivers of productivity pp. 357-369

Francesco Venturini

Access to finance for innovative SMEs since the financial crisis pp. 370-380

Neil Lee, Hiba Sameen and Marc Cowling

The production function of top R&D investors: Accounting for size and sector heterogeneity with quantile estimations pp. 381-393

Sandro Montresor and Antonio Vezzani

Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain pp. 394-404

Matt Marx, Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming

Global talent, local careers: Circular migration of top Indian engineers and professionals pp. 405-420

Fei Qin

University technology transfer offices: The search for identity to build legitimacy pp. 421-437

O’Kane, Conor, Vincent Mangematin, Will Geoghegan and Ciara Fitzgerald

How do alumni faculty behave in research collaboration? An analysis of Chang Jiang Scholars in China pp. 438-450

Feng Li, Yajun Miao and Chenchen Yang

Bibliometric evaluation vs. informed peer review: Evidence from Italy pp. 451-466

Graziella Bertocchi, Alfonso Gambardella, Tullio Jappelli, Carmela A. Nappi and Franco Peracchi

Does massive funding support of researchers work?: Evaluating the impact of the South African research chair funding initiative pp. 467-482

Johannes Fedderke and M. Goldschmidt

Essential intellectual property rights and inventors’ involvement in standardization pp. 483-492

Byeongwoo Kang and Kazuyuki Motohashi

An examination of the antecedents and implications of patent scope pp. 493-507

Elena Novelli

Measuring patent's influence on technological evolution: A study of knowledge spanning and subsequent inventive activity pp. 508-521

Rafael A. Corredoira and Preeta M. Banerjee

Forecasting technological discontinuities in the ICT industry pp. 522-532

Karin Hoisl, Tobias Stelzer and Stefanie Biala

Corporate governance practices and companies’ R&D intensity: Evidence from European countries pp. 533-543

Florence Honoré, Federico Munari and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de La Potterie

Volume 44, issue 1, 2015

“Open” disclosure of innovations, incentives and follow-on reuse: Theory on processes of cumulative innovation and a field experiment in computational biology pp. 4-19

Kevin Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Who is afraid of pirates? An experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation pp. 20-33

Christoph Engel and Marco Kleine

The evolving state-of-the-art in technology transfer research: Revisiting the contingent effectiveness model pp. 34-49

Barry Bozeman, Heather Rimes and Jan Youtie

Markets versus spillovers in outflows of university research pp. 50-66

David C. Mowery and Arvids A. Ziedonis

Societal problems and industry reorientation: Elaborating the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model and a case study of car safety in the USA (1900–1995) pp. 67-82

Frank W. Geels and Caetano Penna

Assessing the practical application of social knowledge: A survey of six leading Canadian Universities pp. 83-95

Richard Hawkins, Cooper H. Langford and Chad Saunders

From practice to collaborative community in interdisciplinary research contexts pp. 96-107

Frank Siedlok, Paul Hibbert and John Sillince

Migrant scientists and international networks pp. 108-120

Giuseppe Scellato, Chiara Franzoni and Paula Stephan

Mobility and innovation: A cross-country comparison in the video games industry pp. 121-137

Cornelia Storz, Federico Riboldazzi and Moritz John

Recruitment, knowledge integration and modes of innovation pp. 138-153

Sverre J. Herstad, Tore Sandven and Bernd Ebersberger

The Renaissance Man is not dead! The role of generalists in teams of inventors pp. 154-167

Eduardo Melero and Neus Palomeras

Embedded lead users—The benefits of employing users for corporate innovation pp. 168-180

Tim G. Schweisfurth and Christina Raasch

Network dynamics in constellations of cultural differences: Relational distance in innovation processes in legal services and biotechnology pp. 181-194

Oliver Ibert and Felix C. Müller

The Emerging Clusters Model: A tool for identifying emerging technologies across multiple patent systems pp. 195-205

Anthony Breitzman and Patrick Thomas

A cross-country index of intellectual property rights in pharmaceutical inventions pp. 206-216

Ming Liu and Sumner La Croix

The fateful triangle: Complementarities in performance between product, process and organizational innovation in France and the UK pp. 217-232

Gérard Ballot, Fathi Fakhfakh, Fabrice Galia and Ammon Salter

Assessing policy strategies for the promotion of environmental technologies: A review of India's National Solar Mission pp. 233-243

Rainer Quitzow

Environmental regulation and the cross-border diffusion of new technology: Evidence from automobile patents pp. 244-257

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Eric Neumayer and Richard Perkins

Compact organizational space and technological catch-up: Comparison of China's three leading automotive groups pp. 258-272

Kyung-Min Nam

Effects of government financial incentives on firms’ innovation performance in China: Evidences from Beijing in the 1990s pp. 273-282

JianCheng Guan and Richard C.M. Yam

The choice between standard and non-standard FDI production strategies for Taiwanese multinationals pp. 283-293

Hui-Lin Lin, Yi-Chi Hsiao and Eric Lin