Research Policy

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Volume 38, issue 10, 2009

Government centrality to university-industry interactions: University research centers and the industry involvement of academic researchers pp. 1505-1516

P. Craig Boardman

Behavioural additionality of R&D subsidies: A learning perspective pp. 1517-1533

Bart Clarysse, Mike Wright and Philippe Mustar

Impact analysis for national R&D funding in science and technology using quantification method II pp. 1534-1544

Jin Young Choi, Jong Ha Lee and So Young Sohn

The relational antecedents of project-entrepreneurship: Network centrality, team composition and project performance pp. 1545-1558

Simone Ferriani, Gino Cattani and Charles Baden-Fuller

What do business models do?: Innovation devices in technology entrepreneurship pp. 1559-1570

Liliana Doganova and Marie Eyquem-Renault

A structural equation model of the impact of the "fuzzy front end" on the success of new product development pp. 1571-1581

Birgit Verworn

The role of lead users in knowledge sharing pp. 1582-1589

Lars Bo Jeppesen and Keld Laursen

Sticky information and heterogeneous needs as determining factors of R&D cooperation with customers pp. 1590-1603

Gloria Sánchez-González, Nuria González-Álvarez and Mariano Nieto

Estimates of patent rents from firm market value pp. 1604-1616

James Bessen

How to play the "Names Game": Patent retrieval comparing different heuristics pp. 1617-1627

Julio Raffo and Stephane Lhuillery

E.G. Carayannis, D. Assimakopoulos and M. Kondo, Editors, Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters: Findings and Insights from the US, EU and Japan, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS, England (2008) 432 pp., £64.00, Hardcover, ISBN: 9781403942456. E.G. Carayannis and P. Formica, Editors, Knowledge Matters: Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS, England (2008) 288 pp., £58.00, Hardcover, ISBN: 9781403998729 pp. 1628-1629

Odile E.M. Janne

Volume 38, issue 9, 2009

Pyramiding: Efficient search for rare subjects pp. 1397-1406

Eric von Hippel, Nikolaus Franke and Reinhard Prügl

Reconsidering the Bayh-Dole Act and the Current University Invention Ownership Model pp. 1407-1422

Martin Kenney and Donald Patton

Patent validation at the country level--The role of fees and translation costs pp. 1423-1437

Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bettina Reichl and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

Measuring the returns of R&D--An empirical study of the German manufacturing sector over 45 years pp. 1438-1445

Günter Lang

An economic evaluation of Iranian public agricultural R&D policy: The case of sugarbeet pp. 1446-1452

S.S. Hosseini, E. Hassanpour and S.Y. Sadeghian

Dynamics of R&D networked relationships and mergers and acquisitions in the smart card field pp. 1453-1467

Zouhaïer M'Chirgui

Technology cross-fertilization and the business model: The case of integrating ICTs in mechanical engineering products pp. 1468-1477

Joakim Björkdahl

If you cannot block, you better run: Small firms, cooperative innovation, and appropriation strategies pp. 1478-1488

Aija Leiponen and Justin Byma

Whether and how: Effects of international joint ventures on local innovation in an emerging economy pp. 1489-1503

Ishtiaq P. Mahmood and Weiting Zheng

Volume 38, issue 8, 2009

Implementing Bayh-Dole-like laws: Faculty problems and their impact on university patenting activity pp. 1217-1224

Nicola Baldini

Empirical observations on New Public Management to increase efficiency in public research--Boon or bane? pp. 1225-1234

Torben Schubert

Innovation on demand--Can public procurement drive market success of innovations? pp. 1235-1247

Birgit Aschhoff and Wolfgang Sofka

How national institutions influence technology policies and firms' knowledge-building strategies: A study of fuel cell innovation across industrialized countries pp. 1248-1259

Gurneeta Vasudeva

Research productivity in the era of the internet revisited pp. 1260-1268

Eleftheria Vasileiadou and Rens Vliegenthart

Has the Internet accelerated the diffusion of new products? pp. 1269-1277

Jeffrey Prince and Daniel H. Simon

The impact of virtual technologies on knowledge-based processes: An empirical study pp. 1278-1287

Antonino Vaccaro, Francisco Veloso and Stefano Brusoni

When does community participation enhance the performance of open source software companies? pp. 1288-1299

Wouter Stam

The open kimono: How Intel balances trust and power to maintain platform leadership pp. 1300-1312

Robert K. Perrons

Intellectual capital or signal? The effects of scientists on alliance formation in knowledge-intensive industries pp. 1313-1325

Xiaowei Luo, Kenneth W. Koput and Walter W. Powell

The intra-firm diffusion of complementary innovations: Evidence from the adoption of management practices by British establishments pp. 1326-1339

Giuliana Battisti and Alfonsina Iona

The roles of product lead-users and product experts in new product evaluation pp. 1340-1349

Muammer Ozer

The performance impact of intra-firm organizational design on an alliance's NPD projects pp. 1350-1364

Yuosre F. Badir, Bettina Büchel and Christopher Tucci

Quality-oriented technical change in Japanese wheat breeding pp. 1365-1375

Yoko Saito, Hisamitsu Saito, Takumi Kondo and Fumio Osanami

Resource allocations, knowledge network characteristics and entrepreneurial orientation of multinational corporations pp. 1376-1387

Christopher Williams and Soo Hee Lee

Innovative R&D and optimal investment under uncertainty in high-tech industries: An implication for emerging economies pp. 1388-1395

Yingyi Tsai, Justin Lin and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

Volume 38, issue 7, 2009

Highly cited leaders and the performance of research universities pp. 1079-1092

Amanda Goodall

Why business schools do so much research: A signaling explanation pp. 1093-1101

Damien Besancenot, Joao Faria and Radu Vranceanu

The economics of universities in a new age of funding options pp. 1102-1116

Richard Just and Wallace E. Huffman

Political aspects of innovation pp. 1117-1124

Jerry Courvisanos

The impact on innovation performance of different sources of knowledge: Evidence from the UK Community Innovation Survey pp. 1125-1135

Marion Frenz and Grazia Ietto-Gillies

The challenge of managing boundary-spanning research activities: Experiences from the Swedish context pp. 1136-1149

Niclas Adler, Maria Elmquist and Flemming Norrgren

A real options perspective on R&D portfolio diversification pp. 1150-1158

Sjoerd van Bekkum, Enrico Pennings and Han Smit

Do firms in clusters invest in R&D more intensively? Theory and evidence from multi-country data pp. 1159-1171

Chang-Yang Lee

The effects of new technologies on productivity: An intrafirm diffusion-based assessment pp. 1172-1180

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Jaime Gómez and Sergio Palomas

Transfers of user process innovations to process equipment producers: A study of Dutch high-tech firms pp. 1181-1191

Jeroen P.J. de Jong and Eric von Hippel

Components, systems and discontinuities: The case of magnetic recording and playback equipment pp. 1192-1202

Jeffery Funk

Exploring the cross-country gap in patenting: A Stochastic Frontier Approach pp. 1203-1213

Xiaolan Fu and Qing Yang

L. Leydesdorff, The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated, Universal Publishers, Boca Raton, FL (2006) ISBN 1-58112-937-8 385 pp., Price: $18.95 pp. 1214-1215

Martin Meyer

Volume 38, issue 6, 2009

Researchers' perceptions of citations pp. 895-905

Dag W. Aksnes and Arie Rip

What drives the formation of 'valuable' university-industry linkages?: Insights from the wine industry pp. 906-921

Elisa Giuliani and Valeria Arza

Academics or entrepreneurs? Investigating role identity modification of university scientists involved in commercialization activity pp. 922-935

Sanjay Jain, Gerard George and Mark Maltarich

The determinants of academic research commercial performance: Towards an organizational ambidexterity perspective pp. 936-946

Yuan-Chieh Chang, Phil Y. Yang and Ming-Huei Chen

What drives scientists to start their own company?: An empirical investigation of Max Planck Society scientists pp. 947-956

Stefan Krabel and Pamela Mueller

The contribution of (not so) public research to commercial innovations in the field of combinatorial chemistry pp. 957-970

Stéphane Malo

How agricultural research systems shape a technological regime that develops genetic engineering but locks out agroecological innovations pp. 971-983

Gaëtan Vanloqueren and Philippe V. Baret

The fog of innovation: Innovativeness and deviance in developing new clinical testing equipment pp. 984-993

Maria Höyssä and Sampsa Hyysalo

Measuring knowledge spillovers: What patents, licenses and publications reveal about innovation diffusion pp. 994-1005

Andrew Nelson

Claiming more: the Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants pp. 1006-1020

Nicolas van Zeebroeck, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Dominique Guellec

Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D activity: Evidence from firm-level data for France pp. 1021-1031

Olivier Bertrand

New forms of organisation and R&D internationalisation among the world's 100 largest food and beverages multinationals pp. 1032-1043

Fragkiskos Filippaios, Marina Papanastassiou, Robert Pearce and Ruth Rama

The role of team behavioral integration and cohesion in shaping individual improvisation pp. 1044-1053

Massimo Magni, Luigi Proserpio, Martin Hoegl and Bernardino Provera

Can Taiwan's second movers upgrade via branding? pp. 1054-1065

Wan-wen Chu

Technological innovations and sectoral change: Transformative capacity, adaptability, patterns of change: An analytical framework pp. 1066-1076

Ulrich Dolata

J. Bessen and M.J. Meurer, Patent Failure. How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk, Princeton University Press (2008) ISBN 978-0691134918 352 pp pp. 1077-1078

Andrea Filippetti

Volume 38, issue 5, 2009

EES and the continuing evolution of Research Policy pp. 695-699

Ben Martin, Martin Bell, Michel Callon, Hariolf Grupp, Fumio Kodama, Stefan Kuhlmann, Lee Fleming, Nick von Tunzelmann and Walter Powell

Demand-pull, technology-push, and government-led incentives for non-incremental technical change pp. 700-709

Gregory Nemet

Regulatory dependence and Scientific Advisory Boards pp. 710-725

Jay Inghwee Chok

Learning for learning economy and social learning pp. 726-735

Sampsa Hyysalo

Professional guilds, tension and knowledge management pp. 736-745

Ram Mudambi and Tim Swift

Does spatial proximity to customers matter for innovative performance?: Evidence from the Dutch software sector pp. 746-755

Anet Weterings and Ron Boschma

How do collaborations with universities affect firms' innovative performance? The role of "Pasteur scientists" in the advanced materials field pp. 756-764

Yasunori Baba, Naohiro Shichijo and Silvia Rita Sedita

Collaborative networks and product innovation performance: Toward a contingency perspective pp. 765-778

Kuen-Hung Tsai

A policy insight into the R&D-patent relationship pp. 779-792

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

Reforming intellectual property rights and the Bt cotton seed industry in China: Who benefits from policy reform? pp. 793-801

Ruifa Hu, Carl Pray, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Cunhui Fan and Caiping Zhang

Innovation strategy and performance during economic transition: Evidences in Beijing, China pp. 802-812

Jian Cheng Guan, Richard C.M. Yam, Esther P.Y. Tang and Antonio K.W. Lau

Manufacturing dynamics and spillovers: The case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan (HKMT) pp. 813-828

Can Huang and Naubahar Sharif

Latecomer firms and the emergence and development of knowledge networks: The case of Petrobras in Brazil pp. 829-844

Eva Dantas and Martin Bell

Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from a panel of Eastern European countries pp. 845-860

Sorin Krammer

Competition favors the prepared firm: Firms' R&D responses to competitive market pressure pp. 861-870

Chang-Yang Lee

Positive and negative feedback effects in competition for dominance of network business systems pp. 871-884

Antti Sillanpää and Tomi Laamanen

Environmental management systems and technological environmental innovations: Exploring the causal relationship pp. 885-893

Andreas Ziegler and Jazmin Seijas Nogareda

Volume 38, issue 4, 2009

Emerging challenges for science, technology and innovation policy research: A reflexive overview pp. 571-582

Piera Morlacchi and Ben Martin

Developing science, technology and innovation indicators: What we can learn from the past pp. 583-589

Christopher Freeman and Luc Soete

Gender-specific patterns in patenting and publishing pp. 590-599

Rainer Frietsch, Inna Haller, Melanie Funken-Vrohlings and Hariolf Grupp

Post-Soviet science: Difficulties in the transformation of the R&D systems in Russia and Ukraine pp. 600-609

Igor Yegorov

Organizational and institutional influences on creativity in scientific research pp. 610-623

Thomas Heinze, Philip Shapira, Juan D. Rogers and Jacqueline M. Senker

Science, risk and governance: Radical rhetorics and the realities of reform in food safety governance pp. 624-636

Erik Millstone

Regulatory policy as innovation: Constructing rules of engagement for a technological zone of tissue engineering in the European Union pp. 637-646

Alex Faulkner

Accounting for change in national systems of innovation: A friendly critique based on the U.S. case pp. 647-654

David M. Hart

Prospective analysis of technological innovation systems: Identifying technological and organizational development options for biogas in Switzerland pp. 655-667

Jochen Markard, Martin Stadelmann and Bernhard Truffer

Evolutionary approaches for sustainable innovation policies: From niche to paradigm? pp. 668-680

Jan Nill and Rene Kemp

Science, technology and innovation for economic growth: Linking policy research and practice in 'STIG Systems' pp. 681-693

Philippe Aghion, Paul David and Dominique Foray

Volume 38, issue 3, 2009

Innovation in low- and medium-technology industries pp. 441-446

Paul Robertson, Keith Smith and Nick von Tunzelmann

Innovation paths and the innovation performance of low-technology firms--An empirical analysis of German industry pp. 447-458

Eva Kirner, Steffen Kinkel and Angela Jaeger

Embodied knowledge and sectoral linkages: An input-output approach to the interaction of high- and low-tech industries pp. 459-469

Johan Hauknes and Mark Knell

Brave old world: Accounting for 'high-tech' knowledge in 'low-tech' industries pp. 470-482

Sandro Mendona

Innovation patterns and location of European low- and medium-technology industries pp. 483-494

Martin Heidenreich

Search patterns and absorptive capacity: Low- and high-technology sectors in European countries pp. 495-506

Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka

Beyond formal R&D: Taking advantage of other sources of innovation in low- and medium-technology industries pp. 507-517

Llus Santamara, Mara Jess Nieto and Andrés Barge-Gil

External technology sourcing and innovation performance in LMT sectors: An analysis based on the Taiwanese Technological Innovation Survey pp. 518-526

Kuen-Hung Tsai and Jiann-Chyuan Wang

Learning through informal local and global linkages: The case of Taiwan's machine tool industry pp. 527-535

Liang-Chih Chen

Investments in modernization, innovation and gains in productivity: Evidence from firms in the global paper industry pp. 536-547

Vivek Ghosal and Usha Nair-Reichert

The integration of old and new technological paradigms in low- and medium-tech sectors: The case of mechatronics pp. 548-558

Daniela Freddi

The role of corporate technology strategy and patent portfolios in low-, medium- and high-technology firms pp. 559-569

Ulrich Lichtenthaler

Volume 38, issue 2, 2009

Hariolf Grupp: 3rd July 1950-20th January 2009 pp. 217-217

Ben Martin

Innovation studies--The emerging structure of a new scientific field pp. 218-233

Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen

Some critical episodes in the progress of medical innovation: An Anglo-American perspective pp. 234-242

Nathan Rosenberg

Why are some independent inventors 'heroes' and others 'hobbyists'? The moderating role of technological diversity and specialization pp. 243-254

Christopher Lettl, Katja Rost and Iwan von Wartburg

Absorptive capacity and the search for innovation pp. 255-267

Kira R. Fabrizio

A national systems view of university entrepreneurialism: Inferences from comparison of the German and US experience pp. 268-280

Mark Lehrer, Phillip Nell and Lisa Gärber

Is commercialization good or bad for science? Individual-level evidence from the Max Planck Society pp. 281-292

Guido Buenstorf

Funding incentives, collaborative dynamics and scientific productivity: Evidence from the EU framework program pp. 293-305

Daniela Defazio, Andy Lockett and Mike Wright

Research collaboration and research output: A longitudinal study of 65 biomedical scientists in a New Zealand university pp. 306-317

Zi-Lin He, Xue-Song Geng and Colin Campbell-Hunt

Who's right, Marshall or Jacobs? The localization versus urbanization debate pp. 318-337

Catherine Beaudry and Andrea Schiffauerova

China's regional innovation capacity in transition: An empirical approach pp. 338-357

Xibao Li

An empirical investigation of knowledge management and innovative performance: The case of alliances pp. 358-368

Xu Jiang and Yuan Li

Multinational firms, global value chains and the organization of knowledge transfer pp. 369-381

Federica Saliola and Antonello Zanfei

Inter-generational transitions in socio-technical systems: The case of mobile communications pp. 382-392

Shahzad Ansari and Raghu Garud

Location, collocation and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry pp. 393-403

Rajneesh Narula and Grazia D. Santangelo

Monetary donations to an open source software platform pp. 404-414

Sandeep Krishnamurthy and Arvind K. Tripathi

Applicant and examiner citations in U.S. patents: An overview and analysis pp. 415-427

Juan Alcácer, Michelle Gittelman and Bhaven Sampat

The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios pp. 428-436

Knut Blind, Katrin Cremers and Elisabeth Mueller

Jan Fagerberg, David Mowery and Richard Nelson, Editors, The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2004) 656 pp., £30.00 paperback, £95.00 hardback, ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926455-1 pp. 437-440

Daniele Archibugi and Andrea Filippetti

Volume 38, issue 1, 2009

Have university knowledge flows narrowed?: Evidence from patent data pp. 1-13

Carlos Rosell and Ajay Agrawal

US faculty patenting: Inside and outside the university pp. 14-25

Jerry Thursby, Anne W. Fuller and Marie Thursby

Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research pp. 26-34

Dirk Czarnitzki, Wolfgang Glänzel and Katrin Hussinger

R&D, knowledge spillovers and company productivity performance pp. 35-44

Mary O'Mahony and Michela Vecchi

R&D cooperation and failures in innovation projects: Empirical evidence from French CIS data pp. 45-57

Stephane Lhuillery and Etienne Pfister

Corporate venturing and value creation: A review and proposed framework pp. 58-76

V.K. Narayanan, Yi Yang and Shaker A. Zahra

Are new technology-based firms located on science parks really more innovative?: Evidence from Taiwan pp. 77-85

Chih-Hai Yang, Kazuyuki Motohashi and Jong-Rong Chen

Understanding the timing of 'fast-second' entry and the relevance of capabilities in invention vs. commercialization pp. 86-95

Gwendolyn K. Lee

Managing external knowledge flows: The moderating role of absorptive capacity pp. 96-105

Alvaro Escribano, Andrea Fosfuri and Josep Tribó

The effect of financial constraints, absorptive capacity and complementarities on the adoption of multiple process technologies pp. 106-119

Jaime Gómez and Pilar Vargas

Long-run versus short-run decisions: R&D and market structure in Spanish firms pp. 120-132

Joaquín Artés

e-Business usage across and within firms in the UK: profitability, externalities and policy pp. 133-143

Giuliana Battisti, Alessandra Canepa and Paul Stoneman

Antecedents and trajectories of AMT adoption: The case of Greek manufacturing SMEs pp. 144-155

Yiannis E. Spanos and Irini Voudouris

The launch of innovative product-related services: Lessons from automotive telematics pp. 156-169

Sylvain Lenfle and Christophe Midler

The French defence industry in the knowledge management era: A historical overview and evidence from empirical data pp. 170-180

Sarah Guillou, Nathalie Lazaric, Christian Longhi and Sylvie Rochhia

Do 'liberal market economies' really innovate more radically than 'coordinated market economies'?: Hall and Soskice reconsidered pp. 181-191

Dirk Akkermans, Carolina Castaldi and Bart Los

Is a higher rate of R&D tax credit a panacea for low levels of R&D in disadvantaged regions? pp. 192-205

Richard Harris, Qian Li and Mary Trainor

Allocative efficiency in public research funding: Can bibliometrics help? pp. 206-215

Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo and Alessandro Caprasecca

M. Sanders, Technology and the Decline in Demand for Unskilled Labour--A Theoretical Analysis of the US and European Labour Markets, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2005) (245 pp., £ 65.00, ISBN: 1-84542-132-9) pp. 216-216

Mariacristina Piva