Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 42, issue 10, 2013

Tunzelmann, Schumpeter, and the Hockey Stick pp. 1706-1715

Deirdre N. McCloskey

Assessing the role of steam power in the first industrial revolution: The early work of Nick von Tunzelmann pp. 1716-1723

Kristine Bruland and Keith Smith

The “sailing ship effect”: Reassessing history as a source of insight on technical change pp. 1724-1738

Sandro Mendonça

The pre-industrial energy crisis and resource scarcity as a source of transition pp. 1739-1748

W. Edward Steinmueller

The destabilisation of existing regimes: Confronting a multi-dimensional framework with a case study of the British coal industry (1913–1967) pp. 1749-1767

Bruno Turnheim and Frank W. Geels

On the patterns and determinants of the global diffusion of new technologies pp. 1768-1779

Anni-Maria Pulkki-Brännström and Paul Stoneman

Reassessing patent propensity: Evidence from a dataset of R&D awards, 1977–2004 pp. 1780-1792

Roberto Fontana, Alessandro Nuvolari, Hiroshi Shimizu and Andrea Vezzulli

Money for nothing: How firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution pp. 1793-1814

Gerben Bakker

Innovation as politics: The rise and reshaping of innovation in UK parliamentary discourse 1960–2005 pp. 1815-1828

Lew Perren and Jonathan Sapsed

Volume 42, issue 9, 2013

Co-authorship networks and research impact: A social capital perspective pp. 1515-1530

Eldon Y. Li, Chien Hsiang Liao and Hsiuju Rebecca Yen

What makes companies pursue an Open Science strategy? pp. 1531-1543

Markus Simeth and Julio Raffo

Externalities of openness in innovation pp. 1544-1554

Stephen Roper, Priit Vahter and James H. Love

The impact of network embeddedness on research output pp. 1555-1567

Claudia N. Gonzalez-Brambila, Francisco M. Veloso and David Krackhardt

Developing a framework for responsible innovation pp. 1568-1580

Jack Stilgoe, Richard Owen and Phil Macnaghten

R&D offshoring and the productivity growth of European regions pp. 1581-1594

Davide Castellani and Fabio Pieri

Environmental innovations in services: Manufacturing–services integration and policy transmissions pp. 1595-1604

Giulio Cainelli and Massimiliano Mazzanti

The effect of public subsidies on firms’ investment–cash flow sensitivity: Transient or persistent? pp. 1605-1623

Massimo G. Colombo, Annalisa Croce and Massimiliano Guerini

R&D manpower and technological performance: The impact of demographic and task-related diversity pp. 1624-1633

Dries Faems and Annapoornima M. Subramanian

International patent disputes: Evidence from oppositions at the European Patent Office pp. 1634-1646

Federico Caviggioli, Giuseppe Scellato and Elisa Ughetto

Complex innovation policy systems: Towards an evaluation mix pp. 1647-1656

Edurne Magro and James Wilson

The UK and Italian research assessment exercises face to face pp. 1657-1666

Gianfranco Rebora and Matteo Turri

Resources and research: An empirical study of the influence of departmental research resources on individual STEM researchers involvement with industry pp. 1667-1678

Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech

Facts and fads in academic research management: The effect of management practices on research productivity in Australia pp. 1679-1693

Maarja Beerkens

Volume 42, issue 8, 2013

The spill-over theory reversed: The impact of regional economies on the commercialization of university science pp. 1313-1324

Steven Casper

From closed to open: Job role changes, individual predispositions, and the adoption of commercial open source software development pp. 1325-1340

Oliver Alexy, Joachim Henkel and Martin W. Wallin

Career-based influences on scientific recognition in the United States and Europe: Longitudinal evidence from curriculum vitae data pp. 1341-1355

Jan Youtie, Juan Rogers, Thomas Heinze, Philip Shapira and Li Tang

The moderating role of internal and external resources on the performance effect of multitasking: Evidence from the R&D performance of surgeons pp. 1356-1365

Carsten Schultz, Jonas Schreyoegg and Constantin von Reitzenstein

Research upon return: The effect of international mobility on scientific ties, production and impact pp. 1366-1377

Koen Jonkers and Laura Cruz-Castro

Bridges or isolates? Investigating the social networks of academic inventors pp. 1378-1388

Enrico Forti, Chiara Franzoni and Maurizio Sobrero

The means of managing momentum: Bridging technological paths and organisational fields pp. 1389-1405

Cornelius Schubert, Jörg Sydow and Arnold Windeler

Network dynamics in regional clusters: Evidence from Chile pp. 1406-1419

Elisa Giuliani

What determines the location choice of R&D activities by multinational firms? pp. 1420-1430

Iulia Siedschlag, Donal Smith, Camelia Romocea Turcu and Xiaoheng Zhang

Persistence of innovation: Discriminating between types of innovation and sources of state dependence pp. 1431-1445

Alois Ganter and Achim Hecker

Organisational conditions for service encounter-based innovation pp. 1446-1456

Flemming Sørensen, Jon Sundbo and Jan Mattsson

Resource constraints as triggers of radical innovation: Longitudinal evidence from the manufacturing sector pp. 1457-1468

Marcus Matthias Keupp and Oliver Gassmann

The era of incremental change in the technology innovation life cycle: An analysis of the automotive emission control industry pp. 1469-1481

Jaegul Lee and Nicholas Berente

Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic innovation activities pp. 1482-1495

Anja Schmiele

Innovation and firm value: An investigation of the changing role of patents, 1985–2007 pp. 1496-1510

Sharon Belenzon and Andrea Patacconi

Volume 42, issue 6, 2013

User generated brands and their contribution to the diffusion of user innovations pp. 1197-1209

Johann Füller, Roland Schroll and Eric von Hippel

Technological discontinuities and the challenge for incumbent firms: Destruction, disruption or creative accumulation? pp. 1210-1224

Anna Bergek, Christian Berggren, Thomas Magnusson and Michael Hobday

Emerging innovation niches: An agent based model pp. 1225-1238

A. Lopolito, Piergiuseppe Morone and R. Taylor

You can’t manage right what you can’t measure well: Technological innovation efficiency pp. 1239-1250

Claudio Cruz-Cázares, Cristina Bayona-Sáez and Teresa García-Marco

Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs pp. 1251-1273

Katrin Mayer-Haug, Stuart Read, Jan Brinckmann, Nicholas Dew and Dietmar Grichnik

R&D service firms: The hidden engine of the high-tech economy? pp. 1274-1285

Jocelyn Probert, David Connell and Andrea Mina

University trustees as channels between academe and industry: Toward an understanding of the executive science network pp. 1286-1300

Charles Mathies and Sheila Slaughter

Participation in university-based research centers: Is it helping or hurting researchers? pp. 1301-1311

Meghna Sabharwal and Qian Hu

Volume 42, issue 5, 2013

Entrepreneurial propensity of innovation systems: Theory, methodology and evidence pp. 1015-1038

Slavo Radosevic and Esin Yoruk

The market failure and the systemic failure rationales in technological innovation systems pp. 1039-1052

Mercedes Bleda and Pablo del Río

Government, policy-making and the development of innovation system: The cases of Taiwanese pharmaceutical biotechnology policies (2000–2008) pp. 1053-1071

Chao-chen Chung

Do firms face a trade-off between the quantity and the quality of their inventions? pp. 1072-1079

Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Firm lifecycles and evolution of industry productivity pp. 1080-1098

Ari Hyytinen and Mika Maliranta

Enabling diffusion: How complementary inputs moderate the response to environmental policy pp. 1099-1111

Kira R. Fabrizio and Olga Hawn

Strategic and ethical foundations for responsible innovation pp. 1112-1125

Krsto Pandza and Paul Ellwood

Integrating science and society in European Framework Programmes: Trends in project-level solicitations pp. 1126-1137

Hannot Rodríguez, Erik Fisher and Daan Schuurbiers

The rise and fall of interdisciplinary research: The case of open source innovation pp. 1138-1151

Christina Raasch, Viktor Lee, Sebastian Spaeth and Cornelius Herstatt

Interdisciplinary research and the early career: The effect of interdisciplinary dissertation research on career placement and publication productivity of doctoral graduates in the sciences pp. 1152-1164

Morgan M. Millar

How peer review empowers the academic profession and university managers: Changes in relationships between the state, universities and the professoriate pp. 1165-1173

Christine Musselin

Volume 42, issue 4, 2013

Why are women underrepresented amongst patentees? pp. 831-843

Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman and David J. Munroe

Do applicant patent citations matter? pp. 844-854

Christopher A. Cotropia, Mark A. Lemley and Bhaven Sampat

Can’t see the forest for the leaves: Similarity and distance measures for hierarchical taxonomies with a patent classification example pp. 855-873

Robert C. McNamee

Is the commercialization of European academic R&D weak?—A critical assessment of a dominant belief and associated policy responses pp. 874-885

Staffan Jacobsson, Åsa Lindholm-Dahlstrand and Lennart Elg

Effects of the durability of scientific literature at the group level: Case study of chemistry research groups in the Netherlands pp. 886-894

Rodrigo Costas, Thed N. van Leeuwen and Anthony F.J. van Raan

Private–collective innovation, competition, and firms’ counterintuitive appropriation strategies pp. 895-913

Oliver Alexy and Markus Reitzig

Ex-ante evaluation of disruptive susceptibility in established value networks—When are markets ready for disruptive innovations? pp. 914-927

Philipp Klenner, Stefan Hüsig and Michael Dowling

Industry technical committees, technological distance, and innovation performance pp. 928-940

Satish Nambisan

The periphery on stage: The intra-organizational dynamics in online communities of creation pp. 941-953

Francesco Rullani and Stefan Haefliger

New horizons or a strategic mirage? Artist-led-distribution versus alliance strategy in the video game industry pp. 954-964

Thijs L.J. Broekhuizen, Joseph Lampel and Joost Rietveld

Pursuing endogenous high-tech innovation in developing countries: A look at regenerative medicine innovation in Brazil, China and India pp. 965-974

Dominique McMahon and Halla Thorsteinsdóttir

Is environmental innovation embedded within high-performance organisational changes? The role of human resource management and complementarity in green business strategies pp. 975-988

Davide Antonioli, Susanna Mancinelli and Massimiliano Mazzanti

The two faces of market support—How deployment policies affect technological exploration and exploitation in the solar photovoltaic industry pp. 989-1003

Joern Hoppmann, Michael Peters, Malte Schneider and Volker H. Hoffmann

Volume 42, issue 3, 2013

The dynamics of national innovation systems: A panel cointegration analysis of the coevolution between innovative capability and absorptive capacity pp. 579-594

Fulvio Castellacci and José Natera

When birds of a feather don’t flock together: Different scientists and the roles they play in biotech R&D alliances pp. 595-612

Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Kwanghui Lim and Pek-Hooi Soh

Niches and networks: Explaining network evolution through niche formation processes pp. 613-623

Frans Hermans, Dirk van Apeldoorn, Marian Stuiver and Kasper Kok

Individual connectedness in innovation networks: On the role of individual motivation pp. 624-634

Rick Aalbers, Wilfred Dolfsma and Otto Koppius

Interactive learning, informal networks and innovation: Evidence from electronics firm survey in the Pearl River Delta, China pp. 635-646

Wenying Fu, Javier Revilla Diez and Daniel Schiller

Financing innovations in uncertain networks—Filling in roadmap gaps in the semiconductor industry pp. 647-661

Knut Lange, Gordon Müller-Seitz, Jörg Sydow and Arnold Windeler

Modularity, interfaces definition and the integration of external sources of innovation in the automotive industry pp. 662-675

Anna Cabigiosu, Francesco Zirpoli and Arnaldo Camuffo

Genomics as a new research regime? Evidence from the Netherlands pp. 676-687

Roel Nahuis and Dirk Stemerding

Credit where credit is due? The impact of project contributions and social factors on authorship and inventorship pp. 688-703

Carolin Haeussler and Henry Sauermann

A quality index for patent systems pp. 704-719

Matthis de Saint-Georges and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

The worldwide count of priority patents: A new indicator of inventive activity pp. 720-737

Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Hélène Dernis, Dominique Guellec, Lucio Picci and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

Patent rights protection and Japanese foreign direct investment pp. 738-748

Tatsuo Ushijima

Why not greater catch-up by Chinese firms? The impact of IPR, corporate governance and technology intensity on late-comer strategies pp. 749-764

Yangao Xiao, Andrew Tylecote and Jiajia Liu

Building global-class universities: Assessing the impact of the 985 Project pp. 765-775

Han Zhang, Donald Patton and Martin Kenney

National institutional differences and cross-border university–industry knowledge transfer pp. 776-787

Tariq H. Malik

University effects on regional innovation pp. 788-800

Robin Cowan and Natalia Zinovyeva

Policy-making in science policy: The ‘OECD model’ unveiled pp. 801-816

Luisa Henriques and Philippe Larédo

Government science and technology budgets in times of crisis pp. 817-822

Teemu Makkonen

Do R&D tax incentives lead to higher wages for R&D workers? Evidence from The Netherlands pp. 823-830

Boris Lokshin and Pierre Mohnen

Volume 42, issue 2, 2013

Economic crisis and innovation: Is destruction prevailing over accumulation? pp. 303-314

Daniele Archibugi, Andrea Filippetti and Marion Frenz

General technological capabilities, product market fragmentation, and markets for technology pp. 315-325

Alfonso Gambardella and Marco S. Giarratana

Complements and substitutes in profiting from innovation—A choice experimental approach pp. 326-339

Timo Fischer and Joachim Henkel

Understanding innovation: An analysis of persistence for Spanish manufacturing firms pp. 340-352

Angela Triguero Cano and David Córcoles

The impact of innovation activities on firm performance using a multi-stage model: Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 4 pp. 353-366

Iraj Hashi and Nebojsa Stojcic

The effects of compensation plans for employee inventions on R&D productivity: New evidence from Japanese panel data pp. 367-378

Koichiro Onishi

New Silicon Valleys or a new species? Commoditization of knowledge work and the rise of knowledge services clusters pp. 379-390

Stephan Manning

Coming back home after the sun rises: Returnee entrepreneurs and growth of high tech industries pp. 391-407

Martin Kenney, Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree

The nature of academic entrepreneurship in the UK: Widening the focus on entrepreneurial activities pp. 408-422

Maria Abreu and Vadim Grinevich

Academic engagement and commercialisation: A review of the literature on university–industry relations pp. 423-442

Markus Perkmann, Valentina Tartari, Maureen McKelvey, Erkko Autio, Anders Broström, D’Este, Pablo, Riccardo Fini, Aldo Geuna, Rosa Grimaldi, Alan Hughes, Stefan Krabel, Michael Kitson, Patrick Llerena, Francesco Lissoni, Ammon Salter and Maurizio Sobrero

University–industry collaboration and innovation in emergent and mature industries in new industrialized countries pp. 443-453

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Rosane Argou Marques and Evando Mirra de Paula e Silva

The effect of institutional proximity in non-local university–industry collaborations: An analysis based on Chinese patent data pp. 454-464

Wei Hong and Yu-Sung Su

We need to talk – or do we? Geographic distance and the commercialization of technologies from public research pp. 465-480

Guido Buenstorf and Alexander Schacht

When does tapping external sources of knowledge result in knowledge integration? pp. 481-494

Daniel Tzabbar, Barak S. Aharonson and Terry L. Amburgey

Risky innovation: The impact of internal and external R&D strategies upon the distribution of returns pp. 495-501

José Mata and Martin Woerter

R&D offshoring, technology learning and R&D efforts of host country firms in emerging economies pp. 502-516

Zhe Qu, Can Huang, Mingqian Zhang and Yanyun Zhao

National scientific capacity and R&D offshoring pp. 517-528

Russell Thomson

Access to intellectual property for innovation: Evidence on problems and coping strategies from German firms pp. 529-541

Elisabeth Mueller, Iain Cockburn and Megan MacGarvie

An exploratory analysis of patent fencing in pharmaceuticals: The case of PDE5 inhibitors pp. 542-551

Christian Sternitzke

Patent examination at the State Intellectual Property Office in China pp. 552-563

Johannes Liegsalz and Stefan Wagner

Patent quality and ownership: An analysis of UK faculty patenting pp. 564-576

Valerio Sterzi

Volume 42, issue 1, 2013

The magnitude of innovation by demand in a sectoral system: The role of industrial users in semiconductors pp. 1-14

Pamela Adams, Roberto Fontana and Franco Malerba

Induced innovation and technology trajectory: Evidence from smoking cessation products pp. 15-22

Seth Werfel and Adam Jaffe

The economic impact of licensed commercialized inventions originating in university research pp. 23-34

David Roessner, Jennifer Bond, Sumiye Okubo and Mark Planting

To protect or not to protect? Modes of appropriability in the small enterprise sector pp. 35-49

Jörg Thomä and Kilian Bizer

Finding the right partners: Institutional and personal modes of governance of university–industry interactions pp. 50-62

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Aldo Geuna and Federica Rossi

Does government funding complement or substitute private research funding to universities? pp. 63-75

Alessandro Muscio, Davide Quaglione and Giovanna Vallanti

Value for money? New microeconometric evidence on public R&D grants in Flanders pp. 76-89

Dirk Czarnitzki and Cindy Lopes-Bento

The complex search process of invention pp. 90-100

Patrick G. Maggitti, Ken G. Smith and Riitta Katila

Profiting from business model innovation: Evidence from Pay-As-You-Drive auto insurance pp. 101-116

Panos Desyllas and Mari Sako

Towards an open R&D system: Internal R&D investment, external knowledge acquisition and innovative performance pp. 117-127

Luca Berchicci

Firm collaboration and modes of innovation in Norway pp. 128-138

Rune Fitjar and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

The problem of embeddedness revisited: Collaboration and market types pp. 139-148

Kristina Vaarst Andersen

Cooperation with public research institutions and success in innovation: Evidence from France and Germany pp. 149-166

Stéphane Robin and Torben Schubert

Knowledge-sourcing of R&D workers in different job positions: Contextualising external personal knowledge networks pp. 167-179

Franz Huber

Knowledge patterns and sources of leadership: Mapping the semiconductor miniaturization trajectory pp. 180-195

Marianna Epicoco

Knowledge diffusion and innovation policies within the European regions: Challenges based on recent empirical evidence pp. 196-210

Corinne Autant-Bernard, Muriel Fadairo and Nadine Massard

Networks as sponges: International collaboration for developing nanomedicine in China pp. 211-219

Ricky C. Leung

Between the global and the national: Organising European science pp. 220-230

Maria Nedeva

Does inward foreign direct investment improve the innovative performance of local firms? pp. 231-244

Francisco García, Byungchae Jin and Robert Salomon

Capital outflow and R&D investment in the parent firm pp. 245-260

Shu-Chin Huang

A framework for structuring interdisciplinary research management pp. 261-272

Bettina König, Katharina Diehl, Karen Tscherning and Katharina Helming

Increasing web survey response rates in innovation research: An experimental study of static and dynamic contact design features pp. 273-286

Henry Sauermann and Michael Roach

Does incentive provision increase the quality of peer review? An experimental study pp. 287-294

Flaminio Squazzoni, Giangiacomo Bravo and Károly Takács

Peer review versus citations – An analysis of best paper prizes pp. 295-301

Tom Coupé