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Volume 43, issue 10, 2014

Emergence and evolution of new industries: The path-dependent dynamics of knowledge creation. An introduction to the special section pp. 1663-1665

Jackie Krafft, Sebastien Lechevalier, Francesco Quatraro and Cornelia Storz

Interfirm networks in periods of technological turbulence and stability pp. 1666-1680

Mathijs de Vaan

The emergence of new technology-based sectors in European regions: A proximity-based analysis of nanotechnology pp. 1681-1696

Alessandra Colombelli, Jackie Krafft and Francesco Quatraro

A new industry creation and originality: Insight from the funding sources of university patents pp. 1697-1706

Marco Guerzoni, T. Taylor Aldridge, David Audretsch and Sameeksha Desai

The emergence of an educational tool industry: Opportunities and challenges for innovation in education pp. 1707-1715

D. Foray and Julio Raffo

Diversity in patterns of industry evolution: How an intrapreneurial regime contributed to the emergence of the service robot industry pp. 1716-1729

Sebastien Lechevalier, Junichi Nishimura and Cornelia Storz

Light emitting diodes and the lighting revolution: The emergence of a solid-state lighting industry pp. 1730-1746

Susan Walsh Sanderson and Kenneth L. Simons

Scientific misbehavior in economics pp. 1747-1759

Sarah Necker

Articulating the ‘three-missions’ in Spanish universities pp. 1760-1773

Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo

Dynamic complementarities in innovation strategies pp. 1774-1784

James H. Love, Stephen Roper and Priit Vahter

Clusters, convergence, and economic performance pp. 1785-1799

Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

Outside directors on the board and innovative firm performance pp. 1800-1815

Benjamin Balsmeier, Achim Buchwald and Joel Stiebale

The evolution of waste into a resource: Examining innovation in technologies reusing coal combustion by-products using patent data pp. 1816-1826

Joo Young Park

Technological pervasiveness and variety of innovators in Green ICT: A patent-based analysis pp. 1827-1839

Grazia Cecere, Nicoletta Corrocher, Cédric Gossart and Muge Ozman

Volume 43, issue 9, 2014

Proximity effects on the dynamics and outcomes of scientific collaborations pp. 1469-1485

Felichism W. Kabo, Natalie Cotton-Nessler, Yongha Hwang, Margaret Levenstein and Jason Owen-Smith

Scientific mobility and knowledge networks in high emigration countries: Evidence from the Pacific pp. 1486-1495

John Gibson and David McKenzie

When do firms rely on their knowledge spillover recipients for guidance in exploring unfamiliar knowledge? pp. 1496-1507

Hongyan Yang and H. Kevin Steensma

Creativity and regional innovation: Evidence from EU regions pp. 1508-1522

Leo Sleuwaegen and Priscilla Boiardi

Government, venture capital and the growth of European high-tech entrepreneurial firms pp. 1523-1543

Luca Grilli and Samuele Murtinu

R&D drivers and age: Are young firms different? pp. 1544-1556

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Marco Vivarelli

Government support for SME innovations in the regional industries: The case of government financial support program in South Korea pp. 1557-1569

Soogwan Doh and Byungkyu Kim

Technological change in U.S. jet fighter aircraft pp. 1570-1581

Anelí Bongers and Jose Torres

Substitutability and complementarity of technological knowledge and the inventive performance of semiconductor companies pp. 1582-1593

Ludovic Dibiaggio, Maryam Nasiriyar and Lionel Nesta

Users as innovators in developing countries: The global sources of innovation and diffusion in mobile banking services pp. 1594-1607

Paul van der Boor, Pedro Oliveira and Francisco Veloso

Modular exaptation: A missing link in the synthesis of artificial form pp. 1608-1620

Pierpaolo Andriani and Giuseppe Carignani

Open access to data: An ideal professed but not practised pp. 1621-1633

Patrick Andreoli-Versbach and Frank Mueller-Langer

R&D determinants: Accounting for the differences between research and development pp. 1634-1648

Andrés Barge-Gil and Alberto López

Separating patent wheat from chaff: Would the US benefit from adopting patent post-grant review? pp. 1649-1659

Stuart Graham and Dietmar Harhoff

Volume 43, issue 8, 2014

The lag structure of the relationship between patenting and internal R&D revisited pp. 1275-1285

Ning Wang and John Hagedoorn

How patenting informs VC investors – The case of biotechnology pp. 1286-1298

Carolin Haeussler, Dietmar Harhoff and Elisabeth Mueller

Are patents signals for the IPO market? An EU–US comparison for the software industry pp. 1299-1311

Diego Useche

An examination of the intertemporal returns of patented inventions pp. 1312-1319

Jesse Giummo

Multinational subsidiary knowledge protection—Do mandates and clusters matter? pp. 1320-1333

Wolfgang Sofka, Edlira Shehu and Pedro de Faria

Knowledge systematisation, reconfiguration and the organisation of firms and industry: The case of design pp. 1334-1352

D’Ippolito, Beatrice, Marcela Miozzo and Davide Consoli

Entrepreneurial orientation in turbulent environments: The moderating role of absorptive capacity pp. 1353-1369

Andreas Engelen, Harald Kube, Susanne Schmidt and Tessa Christina Flatten

Government-affiliated intermediary organisations as actors in system-level transitions pp. 1370-1380

Paula Kivimaa

Hidden structure: Using network methods to map system architecture pp. 1381-1397

Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak

Science or graduates: How do firms benefit from the proximity of universities? pp. 1398-1412

Bart Leten, Paolo Landoni and Bart Van Looy

Differences in the rates of return to R&D for European and US young leading R&D firms pp. 1413-1421

Michele Cincera and Reinhilde Veugelers

Compulsive policy-making—The evolution of the German feed-in tariff system for solar photovoltaic power pp. 1422-1441

Joern Hoppmann, Joern Huenteler and Bastien Girod

The elusive concept of innovation for Schumpeter, Marschak and the early econometricians pp. 1442-1449

Francisco Louçã

Identifying emerging topics in science and technology pp. 1450-1467

Henry Small, Kevin W. Boyack and Richard Klavans

Volume 43, issue 7, 2014

Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context pp. 1097-1108

Erkko Autio, Martin Kenney, Philippe Mustar, Don Siegel and Mike Wright

Knowledge sources of entrepreneurship: Firm formation by academic, user and employee innovators pp. 1109-1133

Rajshree Agarwal and Sonali K. Shah

Positions and rewards: The allocation of resources within a science-based entrepreneurial firm pp. 1134-1143

Christopher C. Liu and Toby Stuart

From the ivory tower to the startup garage: Organizational context and commercialization processes pp. 1144-1156

Andrew Nelson

A theoretical analysis of the role of social networks in entrepreneurship pp. 1157-1163

Dennis Leyden, Albert Link and Donald S. Siegel

Creating value in ecosystems: Crossing the chasm between knowledge and business ecosystems pp. 1164-1176

Bart Clarysse, Mike Wright, Johan Bruneel and Aarti Mahajan

Contextualizing entrepreneurial innovation: A narrative perspective pp. 1177-1188

Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman and Antonio Paco Giuliani

In good company: The influence of peers on industry engagement by academic scientists pp. 1189-1203

Valentina Tartari, Markus Perkmann and Ammon Salter

Beyond breakthrough research: Epistemic properties of research and their consequences for research funding pp. 1204-1216

Grit Laudel and Jochen Gläser

Strategic interactions in public R&D across European countries: A spatial econometric analysis pp. 1217-1226

Hakim Hammadou, Sonia Paty and Maria Savona

Is small actually big? The chaos of technological change pp. 1227-1238

Shih-Chang Hung and Min-Fen Tu

Bridging differing perspectives on technological platforms: Toward an integrative framework pp. 1239-1249

Annabelle Gawer

R&D portfolios and pharmaceutical licensing pp. 1250-1263

Junichi Nishimura and Yosuke Okada

M&A and R&D: Asymmetric Effects on acquirers and targets? pp. 1264-1273

Florian Szücs

Volume 43, issue 6, 2014

Do innovation measures actually measure innovation? Obliteration, symbolic adoption, and other finicky challenges in tracking innovation diffusion pp. 927-940

Andrew Nelson, Andrew Earle, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Julie Haack and Doug Young

Disambiguation and co-authorship networks of the U.S. patent inventor database (1975–2010) pp. 941-955

Guan-Cheng Li, Ronald Lai, D’Amour, Alexander, David M. Doolin, Ye Sun, Vetle I. Torvik, Amy Z. Yu and Lee Fleming

The diminishing signaling value of patents between early rounds of venture capital financing pp. 956-989

Sebastian Hoenen, Christos Kolympiris, Wilfred Schoenmakers and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes

Gender and the evaluation of research pp. 990-1001

Chris Brooks, Evelyn M. Fenton and James Walker

The distribution of partnership returns: Evidence from co-authorships in economics journals pp. 1002-1013

Francis Bidault and Thomas Hildebrand

Modelling science as a contribution good pp. 1014-1024

Terence Kealey and Martin Ricketts

How do business model and health technology design influence each other? Insights from a longitudinal case study of three academic spin-offs pp. 1025-1038

P. Lehoux, G. Daudelin, B. Williams-Jones, J.-L. Denis and C. Longo

Technological similarity, post-acquisition R&D reorganization, and innovation performance in horizontal acquisitions pp. 1039-1054

Massimo G. Colombo and Larissa Rabbiosi

(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs: The effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes pp. 1055-1066

Hanna Hottenrott and Cindy Lopes-Bento

Balancing act: Government roles in an energy conservation network pp. 1067-1082

Andrew Peterman, Arno Kourula and Raymond Levitt

Narrative research in climate change adaptation—Exploring a complementary paradigm for research and governance pp. 1083-1092

Jana-Axinja Paschen and Ray Ison

Volume 43, issue 5, 2014

Open to suggestions: How organizations elicit suggestions through proactive and reactive attention pp. 812-827

Linus Dahlander and Henning Piezunka

Managing open innovation projects with science-based and market-based partners pp. 828-840

Jingshu Du, Bart Leten and Wim Vanhaverbeke

Co-ownership of intellectual property: Exploring the value-appropriation and value-creation implications of co-patenting with different partners pp. 841-852

Rene Belderbos, Bruno Cassiman, Dries Faems, Bart Leten and Bart Van Looy

Open service innovation and the firm's search for external knowledge pp. 853-866

Andrea Mina, Elif Bascavusoglu-Moreau and Alan Hughes

The paradox of openness: Appropriability, external search and collaboration pp. 867-878

Keld Laursen and Ammon J. Salter

The emergence of openness: How and why firms adopt selective revealing in open innovation pp. 879-890

Joachim Henkel, Simone Schöberl and Oliver Alexy

Open innovation and within-industry diversification in small and medium enterprises: The case of open source software firms pp. 891-902

Massimo G. Colombo, Evila Piva and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

On the management of open innovation pp. 903-913

Alfonso Gambardella and Claudio Panico

Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice pp. 914-925

Teppo Felin and Todd R. Zenger

Volume 43, issue 4, 2014

Digital dark matter and the economic contribution of Apache pp. 623-631

Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle

Acceptance of monetary rewards in open source software development pp. 632-644

Sandeep Krishnamurthy, Shaosong Ou and Arvind K. Tripathi

When publications lead to products: The open science conundrum in new product development pp. 645-654

Simcha Jong and Kremena Slavova

Spatio-temporal processes of knowledge creation pp. 655-668

Johanna Hautala and Jussi S. Jauhiainen

Superstar inventors—Towards a people-centric perspective on the geography of technological renewal in the multinational corporation pp. 669-682

Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander

How knowledge brokers emerge and evolve: The role of actors’ behaviour pp. 683-695

Cristina Boari and Federico Riboldazzi

Knowledge transfer activities in social sciences and humanities: Explaining the interactions of research groups with non-academic agents pp. 696-706

Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Elena Castro-Martínez and D’Este, Pablo

Distance to the frontier and the perception of innovation barriers across European countries pp. 707-725

Werner Hölzl and Jürgen Janger

Persistence of innovation in unstable environments: Continuity and change in the firm's innovative behavior pp. 726-736

Diana Suárez

Human capital intensity in technology-based firms located in Portugal: Does foreign ownership matter? pp. 737-748

Aurora Teixeira and Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann

Science, technology and innovation policies in small and developing economies: The case of Central America pp. 749-759

Ramón Padilla-Pérez and Yannick Gaudin

In search of systemic innovation for sustainable development: A design praxis emerging from a decade of social learning inquiry pp. 760-771

John Colvin, Chris Blackmore, Sam Chimbuya, Kevin Collins, Mark Dent, John Goss, Ray Ison, Pier Paolo Roggero and Giovanna Seddaiu

The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory pp. 772-791

Lea Fuenfschilling and Bernhard Truffer

Exploring dynamics and strategies of niche protection pp. 792-803

Wouter P.C. Boon, Ellen H.M. Moors and Albert J. Meijer

Volume 43, issue 3, 2014

Specific and general information sharing among competing academic researchers pp. 465-475

Carolin Haeussler, Lin Jiang, Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby

National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications pp. 476-494

Zoltan Acs, Erkko Autio and László Szerb

On industrial knowledge bases, commercial opportunities and global innovation network linkages pp. 495-504

Sverre J. Herstad, Heidi Wiig and Bernd Ebersberger

Broadening out and opening up technology assessment: Approaches to enhance international development, co-ordination and democratisation pp. 505-518

Adrian Ely, Patrick Van Zwanenberg and Andrew Stirling

Testing patent value indicators on directly observed patent value—An empirical analysis of Ocean Tomo patent auctions pp. 519-529

Timo Fischer and Jan Leidinger

Getting patents and economic data to speak to each other: An ‘Algorithmic Links with Probabilities’ approach for joint analyses of patenting and economic activity pp. 530-542

Travis Lybbert and Nikolas Zolas

Pre-empted patents, infringed patents and firms’ participation in markets for technology pp. 543-554

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

Unmasking the interplay between technology evolution and R&D collaboration: Evidence from the global semiconductor manufacturing industry, 1990–2010 pp. 555-569

Rahul Kapoor and Patia J. McGrath

Measuring design investment in firms: Conceptual foundations and exploratory UK survey pp. 570-587

James Moultrie and Finbarr Livesey

Knowledge flows and bases in emerging economy innovation systems: Brazilian research 2005–2009 pp. 588-596

Branco Ponomariov and Hannes Toivanen

A latecomer's strategy to promote a technology standard: The case of Datang and TD-SCDMA pp. 597-607

Xudong Gao

Evaluating innovative processes in french firms: Methodological proposition for firm innovation capacity evaluation pp. 608-622

Vincent Boly, Laure Morel, Assielou, N’Doli Guillaume and Mauricio Camargo

Volume 43, issue 2, 2014

Local context, academic entrepreneurship and open science: Publication secrecy and commercial activity among Japanese and US scientists pp. 245-260

John P. Walsh and Hsini Huang

Reconceptualising the co-evolution of firms-in-industries and their environments: Developing an inter-disciplinary Triple Embeddedness Framework pp. 261-277

Frank W. Geels

Sustainability transitions: A political coalition perspective pp. 278-283

David J. Hess

Business models for sustainable technologies: Exploring business model evolution in the case of electric vehicles pp. 284-300

René Bohnsack, Jonatan Pinkse and Ans Kolk

Do eco-innovations harm productivity growth through crowding out? Results of an extended CDM model for Italy pp. 301-317

Giovanni Marin

Connections count: How relational embeddedness and relational empowerment foster absorptive capacity pp. 318-332

Mark Ebers and Indre Maurer

International research networks in pharmaceuticals: Structure and dynamics pp. 333-348

Uwe Cantner and Bastian Rake

Balancing breadth and depth of expertise for innovation: A 3M story pp. 349-366

Wai Fong Boh, Roberto Evaristo and Andrew Ouderkirk

Contemporaneous peer effects, career age and the industry involvement of academics in biotechnology pp. 367-381

Birgit Aschhoff and Christoph Grimpe

Academic scientists’ affiliation with university research centers: Selection dynamics pp. 382-390

Xuhong Su

Logics of integration and actors’ strategies in European joint programs pp. 391-402

Benedetto Lepori, Emanuela Reale and Philippe Larédo

Performance feedback, competitive repertoire simplicity, and technological evolution in a televised design contest pp. 403-413

Pushkar. P. Jha and Joseph Lampel

Foreign competition, domestic knowledge base and innovation activities: Evidence from Chinese high-tech industries pp. 414-422

Xiaohui Liu, Ian R. Hodgkinson and Fu-Mei Chuang

The role of technological catch up and domestic market growth in the genesis of emerging country based multinationals pp. 423-437

Peter J. Buckley and Niron Hashai

Foresight for public procurement and regional innovation policy: The case of Lombardy pp. 438-450

Riccardo Vecchiato and Claudio Roveda

Differential empirical innovation factors for Spain and the UK pp. 451-463

Mariluz Mate-Sanchez-Val and Richard Harris

Volume 43, issue 1, 2014

Crowd science: The organization of scientific research in open collaborative projects pp. 1-20

Chiara Franzoni and Henry Sauermann

Making time for science pp. 21-31

Bradford L. Barham, Jeremy Foltz and Daniel L. Prager

Not all scientists pay to be scientists: PhDs’ preferences for publishing in industrial employment pp. 32-47

Henry Sauermann and Michael Roach

The influence of knowledge-based resources and business scholars’ internationalization strategies on research performance pp. 48-59

Martin Eisend and Susanne Schmidt

Boundaries, breaches, and bridges: The case of Climategate pp. 60-73

Raghu Garud, Joel Gehman and Arvind Karunakaran

The impacts of science and technology policy interventions on university research: Evidence from the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative pp. 74-91

Hyun Ju Jung and Lee, Jeongsik “Jay”

The influence of university departments on the evolution of entrepreneurial competencies in spin-off ventures pp. 92-106

Einar Rasmussen, Simon Mosey and Mike Wright

Scientific knowledge dynamics and relatedness in biotech cities pp. 107-114

Ron Boschma, Gaston Heimeriks and Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation pp. 115-120

Riccardo Cappelli, Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

Public funds and local biotechnology firm creation pp. 121-137

Christos Kolympiris, Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes and Douglas Miller

Why space matters in technological innovation systems—Mapping global knowledge dynamics of membrane bioreactor technology pp. 138-155

Christian Binz, Bernhard Truffer and Lars Coenen

Managing research and innovation networks: Evidence from a government sponsored cross-industry program pp. 156-168

Per Levén, Jonny Holmström and Lars Mathiassen

The role of the state in regulatory policy for nanomaterials risk: Analyzing the expansion of state-centric rulemaking in EU and US chemicals policies pp. 169-178

Ronit Justo-Hanani and Tamar Dayan

A dynamic auction for multi-object procurement under a hard budget constraint pp. 179-189

Ludwig Ensthaler and Thomas Giebe

User community vs. producer innovation development efficiency: A first empirical study pp. 190-201

Christoph Hienerth, Eric von Hippel and Morten Jensen

Intangible assets and firm heterogeneity: Evidence from Italy pp. 202-213

Alessandro Arrighetti, Fabio Landini and Andrea Lasagni

Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms pp. 214-232

Bernhard Dachs and Bettina Peters

Family firms and R&D behavior – New evidence from a large-scale survey pp. 233-244

Thomas Schmid, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Markus Ampenberger and Christoph Kaserer