Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 41, issue 10, 2012

Public R&D and social challenges: What lessons from mission R&D programs? pp. 1697-1702

D. Foray, D.C. Mowery and Richard Nelson

Defense-related R&D as a model for “Grand Challenges” technology policies pp. 1703-1715

David C. Mowery

Grand missions of agricultural innovation pp. 1716-1728

Brian Wright

Mission-oriented biomedical research at the NIH pp. 1729-1741

Bhaven N. Sampat

Missions-oriented RD&D institutions in energy between 2000 and 2010: A comparative analysis of China, the United Kingdom, and the United States pp. 1742-1756

Laura Díaz Anadón

Public Procurement for Innovation as mission-oriented innovation policy pp. 1757-1769

Charles Edquist and Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia

Which policy instruments to induce clean innovating? pp. 1770-1778

Reinhilde Veugelers

Grand Innovation Prizes: A theoretical, normative, and empirical evaluation pp. 1779-1792

Fiona Murray, Scott Stern, Georgina Campbell and Alan MacCormack

Volume 41, issue 9, 2012

The evolution of innovation capability in multinational enterprise subsidiaries: Dual network embeddedness and the divergence of subsidiary specialisation in Taiwan pp. 1501-1518

Simon C. Collinson and Rowena Wang

Patent trolls on markets for technology – An empirical analysis of NPEs’ patent acquisitions pp. 1519-1533

Timo Fischer and Joachim Henkel

Innovating in the periphery: The impact of local and foreign inventor mobility on the value of Indian patents pp. 1534-1543

Tufool Alnuaimi, Tore Opsahl and Gerard George

How firms innovate through R&D internationalization? An S-curve hypothesis pp. 1544-1554

Chung-Jen Chen, Yi-Fen Huang and Bou-Wen Lin

Productivity effects of basic research in low-tech and high-tech industries pp. 1555-1564

Dirk Czarnitzki and Susanne Thorwarth

Research and development, cash flow, agency and governance: UK large companies pp. 1565-1577

Ciaran Driver and Maria Guedes

Tax incentives and R&D activity: Firm-level evidence from Taiwan pp. 1578-1588

Chih-Hai Yang, Chia-Hui Huang and Tony Chieh-Tse Hou

Impact of public and private research funding on scientific production: The case of nanotechnology pp. 1589-1606

Catherine Beaudry and Sedki Allaoui

Intangible resources and technology adoption in manufacturing firms pp. 1607-1619

Jaime Gómez and Pilar Vargas

Russia's innovation policy: Stubborn path-dependencies and new approaches pp. 1620-1630

Evgeny A. Klochikhin

The unsustainable directionality of innovation – The example of the broadband transition pp. 1631-1642

Inge Røpke

Pragmatic agency in technology standards setting: The case of Ethernet pp. 1643-1654

Sanjay Jain

Return mobility and scientific productivity of researchers working abroad: The role of home country linkages pp. 1655-1665

Stefano H. Baruffaldi and Paolo Landoni

Best channels of academia–industry interaction for long-term benefit pp. 1666-1682

Claudia De Fuentes and Gabriela Dutrénit

The point of view of firms in Minas Gerais about the contribution of universities and research institutes to R&D activities pp. 1683-1695

Catari Vilela Chaves, Soraia Schultz Martins Carvalho, Leandro Alves Silva, Tânia Cristina Teixeira and Patrícia Bernardes

Volume 41, issue 8, 2012

Technology push and demand pull perspectives in innovation studies: Current findings and future research directions pp. 1283-1295

Giada Di Stefano, Alfonso Gambardella and Gianmario Verona

The impact of technology-push and demand-pull policies on technical change – Does the locus of policies matter? pp. 1296-1308

Michael Peters, Malte Schneider, Tobias Griesshaber and Volker H. Hoffmann

Exploring the duality between product and organizational architectures: A test of the “mirroring” hypothesis pp. 1309-1324

Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin and John Rusnak

Inertia in response to non-paradigmatic change: The case of meta-organizations pp. 1325-1343

Andreas König, Martin Schulte and Albrecht Enders

Selective search, sectoral patterns, and the impact on product innovation performance pp. 1344-1356

Christian Köhler, Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

Incumbent performance in the face of a radical innovation: Towards a framework for incumbent challenger dynamics pp. 1357-1374

Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz) and Pieter Krop

Research on technology standards: Accomplishment and challenges pp. 1375-1406

V.K. Narayanan and Tianxu Chen

Financial signaling by innovative nascent ventures: The relevance of patents and prototypes pp. 1407-1421

David Audretsch, Werner Bönte and Prashanth Mahagaonkar

How do foreign firms patent in emerging economies with weak appropriability regimes? Archetypes and motives pp. 1422-1439

Marcus Matthias Keupp, Sascha Friesike and Maximilian von Zedtwitz

On property rights and incentives in academic publishing pp. 1440-1447

Athanassios Pitsoulis and Jan Schnellenbach

Extramural research grants and scientists’ funding strategies: Beggars cannot be choosers? pp. 1448-1460

Christoph Grimpe

The impact of national research funds: A regression discontinuity approach to the Chilean FONDECYT pp. 1461-1475

Jose Miguel Benavente, Gustavo Crespi, Lucas Figal Garone and Alessandro Maffioli

Measuring systemic problems in National Innovation Systems. An application to Thailand pp. 1476-1488

Cristina Chaminade, Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Koson Sapprasert

The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing pp. 1489-1498

Paul Dolan and Robert Metcalfe

Volume 41, issue 7, 2012

Exploring the emerging knowledge base of ‘the knowledge society’ pp. 1121-1131

Jan Fagerberg, Hans Landström and Ben Martin

Innovation: Exploring the knowledge base pp. 1132-1153

Jan Fagerberg, Morten Fosaas and Koson Sapprasert

Entrepreneurship: Exploring the knowledge base pp. 1154-1181

Hans Landström, Gouya Harirchi and Fredrik Åström

Science and technology studies: Exploring the knowledge base pp. 1182-1204

Ben Martin, Paul Nightingale and Alfredo Yegros-Yegros

Knowledge flows – Analyzing the core literature of innovation, entrepreneurship and science and technology studies pp. 1205-1218

Samyukta Bhupatiraju, Önder Nomaler, Giorgio Triulzi and Bart Verspagen

The evolution of science policy and innovation studies pp. 1219-1239

Ben Martin

The emergence of entrepreneurship as an academic field: A personal essay on institutional entrepreneurship pp. 1240-1248

Howard E. Aldrich

Mobilizing for change: A study of research units in emerging scientific fields pp. 1249-1261

Tommy Clausen, Jan Fagerberg and Magnus Gulbrandsen

How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinary research: A comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management pp. 1262-1282

Ismael Rafols, Loet Leydesdorff, O’Hare, Alice, Paul Nightingale and Andy Stirling

Volume 41, issue 6, 2012

Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects pp. 955-967

Jochen Markard, Rob Raven and Bernhard Truffer

Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions pp. 968-979

Lars Coenen, Paul Benneworth and Bernhard Truffer

Metatheoretical perspectives on sustainability journeys: Evolutionary, relational and durational pp. 980-995

Raghu Garud and Joel Gehman

Mapping and navigating transitions—The multi-level perspective compared with arenas of development pp. 996-1010

Ulrik Jørgensen

Evolutionary theorizing and modeling of sustainability transitions pp. 1011-1024

Karolina Safarzyńska, Koen Frenken and Jeroen van den Bergh

What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability pp. 1025-1036

Adrian Smith and Rob Raven

Legitimizing research, technology and innovation policies for transformative change pp. 1037-1047

Karl Matthias Weber and Harald Rohracher

Navigating the impact-innovation double hurdle: The case of a climate change research fund pp. 1048-1057

Fiona Lettice, Palie Smart, Yehuda Baruch and Mark Johnson

Non-technological regulatory effects: Implications for innovation and innovation policy pp. 1058-1071

Evita Paraskevopoulou

Is there complementarity or substitutability between internal and external R&D strategies? pp. 1072-1083

John Hagedoorn and Ning Wang

Research, development, and firm growth. Empirical evidence from European top R&D spending firms pp. 1084-1092

Juan V. García-Manjón and M. Elena Romero-Merino

From knowledge to added value: A comparative, panel-data analysis of the innovation value chain in Irish and Swiss manufacturing firms pp. 1093-1106

Stephen Roper and Spyros Arvanitis

MNCs’ offshore R&D networks in host country's regional innovation system: The case of Taiwan-based firms in China pp. 1107-1120

Meng-chun Liu and Shin-Horng Chen

Volume 41, issue 5, 2012

Going, going, gone. Exit forms and the innovative capabilities of firms pp. 795-807

Elena Cefis and Orietta Marsili

New product introduction and product tenure: What effects on firm growth? pp. 808-821

Marco Cucculelli and Barbara Ermini

Managing open incremental process innovation: Absorptive Capacity and distributed learning pp. 822-832

Paul Robertson, G.L. Casali and David Jacobson

The effects of economic status and recent experience on innovative behavior under environmental variability: An experimental approach pp. 833-847

Frank J. van Rijnsoever, Marius T.H. Meeus and A. Rogier T. Donders

The effects of global knowledge reservoirs on the productivity of multinational enterprises: The role of international depth and breadth pp. 848-861

Mario I. Kafouros, Peter J. Buckley and Jeremy Clegg

On the drivers of eco-innovations: Empirical evidence from the UK pp. 862-870

Effie Kesidou and Pelin Demirel

Dominance in the prototyping phase—The case of hydrogen passenger cars pp. 871-883

Sjoerd Bakker, Harro van Lente and Marius T.H. Meeus

Institutional entrepreneurship in constructing alternative paths: A comparison of biotech hybrids pp. 884-896

Lori DiVito

How venture capitalists spur invention in Spain: Evidence from patent trajectories pp. 897-912

Pere Arqué-Castells

Long-run effects of public–private research joint ventures: The case of the Danish Innovation Consortia support scheme pp. 913-927

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Kuhn

Higher growth through the Blue Ocean Strategy: Implications for economic policy pp. 928-938

Jaka Lindič, Mojca Bavdaž and Helena Kovačič

Development of university life-science programs and university–industry joint research in Japan pp. 939-952

Masatoshi Kato and Hiroyuki Odagiri

Volume 41, issue 4, 2012

Startups by recent university graduates and their faculty: Implications for university entrepreneurship policy pp. 663-677

Thomas Astebro, Navid Bazzazian and Serguey Braguinsky

Putting university research in context: Assessing alternative measures of production and diffusion at Stanford pp. 678-691

Andrew Nelson

Spatial differences in the quality of university patenting: Do regions matter? pp. 692-703

Manuel Acosta, Daniel Coronado and M. Ángeles Martínez

Career progress in centralized academic systems: Social capital and institutions in France and Italy pp. 704-719

Michele Pezzoni, Valerio Sterzi and Francesco Lissoni

The temporal trajectories of innovative search: Insights from public hospital services pp. 720-733

Torsten Oliver Salge

Creative destruction: Identifying its geographic origins pp. 734-742

Brett Anitra Gilbert

Creativity, trust and systematic processes in product development pp. 743-755

Anna Brattström, Hans Löfsten and Anders Richtnér

Global excellence at the expense of local diffusion, or a bridge between two worlds? Research in science and technology in the developing world pp. 756-769

H. Barnard, Robin Cowan and M. Müller

Intra-plant diffusion of new technology: Role of productivity in the study of steel refining furnaces pp. 770-779

Tsuyoshi Nakamura and Hiroshi Ohashi

French firms’ strategies for protecting their intellectual property pp. 780-794

Emilie-Pauline Gallié and Diègo Legros

Volume 41, issue 3, 2012

Analyzing the evidence of an IPR take-off in China and India pp. 499-511

Manuel Godinho and Vítor Ferreira

How does openness affect the importance of incentives for innovation? pp. 512-523

Xiaolan Fu

Knowledge flows in the solar photovoltaic industry: Insights from patenting by Taiwan, Korea, and China pp. 524-540

Ching-Yan Wu and John A. Mathews

Technological innovation capabilities in the thin film transistor-liquid crystal display industries of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan pp. 541-555

Mei-Chih Hu

Knowledge spillovers and firm performance in the high-technology industrial cluster pp. 556-564

Yih-Luan Chyi, Yee-Man Lai and Wen-Hsien Liu

Personal relationships and innovation diffusion in SME networks: A content analysis approach pp. 565-579

Federica Ceci and Daniela Iubatti

Do R&D subsidies affect SMEs’ access to external financing? pp. 580-591

Miguel Meuleman and Wouter De Maeseneire

Multinationality, foreignness and institutional distance in the relation between R&D and productivity pp. 592-601

Dolores Añón Higón and Miguel Manjon Antolin

Scope and patterns of innovation cooperation in Spanish service enterprises pp. 602-613

Alexandre Trigo and Xavier Vence-Deza

Environmental innovation and R&D cooperation: Empirical evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms pp. 614-623

Valentina De Marchi

A quasi-experimental evaluation of learning in a stakeholder dialogue on bio-energy pp. 624-637

Eefje Cuppen

Political instability, pro-business market reforms and their impacts on national systems of innovation pp. 638-651

Gayle Allard, Candace A. Martinez and Christopher Williams

Management innovation through standardization: Consultants as standardizers of organizational practice pp. 652-662

Christopher Wright, Andrew Sturdy and Nick Wylie

Volume 41, issue 2, 2012

Performance-based university research funding systems pp. 251-261

Diana Hicks

Research intensity and knowledge transfer activity in UK universities pp. 262-275

Nola Hewitt-Dundas

Governing knowledge in the scientific community: Exploring the role of retractions in biomedicine pp. 276-290

Jeffrey L. Furman, Kyle Jensen and Fiona Murray

The long-term dynamics of co-authorship scientific networks: Iberoamerican countries (1973–2010) pp. 291-305

Guillermo A. Lemarchand

An institutional theory investigation of U.S. technology development trends since the mid-19th century pp. 306-318

Jason M. Pattit, S.P. Raj and David Wilemon

The elixir (or burden) of youth? Exploring differences in innovation between start-ups and established firms pp. 319-333

Paola Criscuolo, Nicos Nicolaou and Ammon Salter

The effects of R&D tax credits on patenting and innovations pp. 334-345

Ådne Cappelen, Arvid Raknerud and Marina Rybalka

Effective incomplete contracts and milestones in market-distant R&D collaboration pp. 346-357

Martin Kloyer and Joachim Scholderer

Appropriate intellectual property protection and economic growth in countries at different levels of development pp. 358-375

Yee Kyoung Kim, Keun Lee, Walter Park and Kineung Choo

Risk factors and mechanisms of technology and insignia copying—A first empirical approach pp. 376-390

Florian Berger, Knut Blind and Alexander Cuntz

The influence of regulations on innovation: A quantitative assessment for OECD countries pp. 391-400

Knut Blind

Production technologies and financial performance: The effect of uneven diffusion among competitors pp. 401-413

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Jaime Gómez and Sergio Palomas

An emerging paradigm or just another trajectory? Understanding the nature of technological changes using engineering heuristics in the telecommunications switching industry pp. 414-429

Arianna Martinelli

Explaining divergence in catching-up in pharma between India and Brazil using the NSI framework pp. 430-441

Samira Guennif and Shyama Ramani

Clean and productive? Empirical evidence from the German manufacturing industry pp. 442-451

Christoph Böhringer, Ulf Moslener, Ulrich Oberndorfer and Andreas Ziegler

The innovation potential of new infrastructure development: An empirical study of Heathrow airport's T5 project pp. 452-466

Nuno Gil, Marcela Miozzo and Silvia Massini

Publicly funded business advisory services and entrepreneurial outcomes pp. 467-481

Douglas Cumming and Eileen Fischer

What hampers innovation? Revealed barriers versus deterring barriers pp. 482-488

D’Este, Pablo, Simona Iammarino, Maria Savona and Nick von Tunzelmann

Technological collaboration in product innovation: The role of market competition and sectoral technological intensity pp. 489-496

Jie Wu

Volume 41, issue 1, 2012

The impact of public basic research on industrial innovation: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry pp. 1-12

Andrew A. Toole

Globalization and strategic research investments pp. 13-23

Anna Eulerich, geb. Bohnstedt, Christian Schwarz and Jens Suedekum

The global crisis and firms’ investments in innovation pp. 24-35

Caroline Paunov

Is there a linear relationship between R&D intensity and growth? Empirical evidence of non-high-tech vs. high-tech SMEs pp. 36-53

Paulo Maçãs Nunes, Zélia Serrasqueiro and João Leitão

R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning pp. 54-68

Martin Andersson, Apostolos Baltzopoulos and Hans Lööf

Innovation strategy, firm survival and relocation: The case of Hong Kong-owned manufacturing in Guangdong Province, China pp. 69-78

Naubahar Sharif and Can Huang

Firms’ genetic characteristics and competence-enlarging strategies: A comparison between academic and non-academic high-tech start-ups pp. 79-92

Massimo G. Colombo and Evila Piva

Social absorption capability, systems of innovation and manufactured export response to preferential trade incentives pp. 93-101

Abdelrasaq Na-Allah and Mammo Muchie

Modeling the relative efficiency of national innovation systems pp. 102-115

Jiancheng Guan and Kaihua Chen

Bottom-up estimation of industrial and public R&D investment by technology in support of policy-making: The case of selected low-carbon energy technologies pp. 116-131

Tobias Wiesenthal, Guillaume Leduc, Karel Haegeman and Hans-Günther Schwarz

On the green and innovative side of trade competitiveness? The impact of environmental policies and innovation on EU exports pp. 132-153

Valeria Costantini and Massimiliano Mazzanti

The effect of the triple helix system and habitat on regional entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence from the U.S pp. 154-166

Younghwan Kim, Wonjoon Kim and Taeyong Yang

Virtual lead user communities: Drivers of knowledge creation for innovation pp. 167-177

Dominik Mahr and Annouk Lievens

Self-employment and innovation. Exploring the determinants of innovative behavior in small businesses pp. 178-189

Isidoro Romero and Juan A. Martínez-Román

Do important inventions benefit from knowledge originating in other technological domains? pp. 190-200

Gregory Nemet and Evan Johnson

Openness to international markets and the diffusion of standards compliance in Latin America. A multi level analysis pp. 201-215

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas and Michiko Iizuka

Filing behaviour regarding essential patents in industry standards pp. 216-225

Florian Berger, Knut Blind and Nikolaus Thumm

Understanding the technology market for patents: New insights from a licensing survey of Japanese firms pp. 226-235

Masayo Kani and Kazuyuki Motohashi

Behind the recent surge of Chinese patenting: An institutional view pp. 236-249

Xibao Li