Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 37, issue 10, 2008

Knowledge dynamics out of balance: Knowledge biased, skewed and unmatched pp. 1657-1658

Wilfred Dolfsma, Cristina Chaminade and Jan Vang

The technology clubs: The distribution of knowledge across nations pp. 1659-1673

Fulvio Castellacci and Daniele Archibugi

Uneven domestic knowledge bases and the success of foreign firms in the USA pp. 1674-1683

Helena Barnard

Globalisation of knowledge production and regional innovation policy: Supporting specialized hubs in the Bangalore software industry pp. 1684-1696

Cristina Chaminade and Jan Vang

Resolving the knowledge paradox: Knowledge-spillover entrepreneurship and economic growth pp. 1697-1705

David Audretsch and Max Keilbach

Currents and sub-currents in innovation flows: Explaining innovativeness using new-product announcements pp. 1706-1716

Wilfred Dolfsma and Gerben van der Panne

Network embeddedness and the exploration of novel technologies: Technological distance, betweenness centrality and density pp. 1717-1731

Victor Gilsing, Bart Nooteboom, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Geert Duysters and Ad van den Oord

Growing through copying: The negative consequences of innovation on franchise network growth pp. 1732-1741

Gabriel Szulanski and Robert J. Jensen

Organizational knowledge creation and the generation of new product ideas: A behavioral approach pp. 1742-1750

Anja Schulze and Martin Hoegl

Against the odds: Small firms in Australia successfully introducing new technology on construction projects pp. 1751-1764

Karen Manley

Commercialization strategies of young biotechnology firms: An empirical analysis of the U.S. industry pp. 1765-1777

Silja Kasch and Michael Dowling

Product innovation and the decision to invest in fixed capital assets: Evidence from an SME survey in six European Union member states pp. 1778-1789

Dimitris Skuras, Kyriaki Tsegenidi and Kostas Tsekouras

Corporate governance and technological dynamism of Chinese firms in mobile telecommunications: A quantitative study pp. 1790-1811

Jing Cai and Andrew Tylecote

Do subsidiaries of foreign MNEs invest more in R&D than domestic firms? pp. 1812-1828

C. Annique Un and Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

Measuring the change in R&D efficiency of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry pp. 1829-1836

Akihiro Hashimoto and Shoko Haneda

Analysing knowledge transfer channels between universities and industry: To what degree do sectors also matter? pp. 1837-1853

Rudi Bekkers and Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas

Close enough but not too far: Assessing the effects of university-industry research relationships and the rise of academic capitalism pp. 1854-1864

Rick Welsh, Leland Glenna, William Lacy and Dina Biscotti

University-industry knowledge and technology transfer in Switzerland: What university scientists think about co-operation with private enterprises pp. 1865-1883

Spyros Arvanitis, Ursina Kubli and Martin Woerter

Engaging the scholar: Three types of academic consulting and their impact on universities and industry pp. 1884-1891

Markus Perkmann and Kathryn Walsh

Does it matter where patent citations come from? Inventor vs. examiner citations in European patents pp. 1892-1908

Paola Criscuolo and Bart Verspagen

Research tool patents and free-libre biotechnology: A suggested unified framework pp. 1909-1921

Julien Pénin and Jean-Pierre Wack

J. Atkinson-Grosjean, Public Science, Private Interests. Culture and Commerce in Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence, University of Toronto Press (2006) 269 pp., ISBN 13: 978-0-8020-8005-9, ISBN 10: 0-8020-8005-7 pp. 1922-1923

Alma Rocha-Lackiz

Gregory Tassey, The Technology Imperative, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2007) pp. xii + 329, $135.00 pp. 1923-1923

Irene C. Makar

J. Whitford, The New Old Economy: Networks Institutions and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing, Oxford University Press Inc., NY, USA (2005) ISBN 978-0-19-928601-0 228 pp., £35.00 Hardback pp. 1924-1925

Yari Borbon-Galvez

Volume 37, issue 9, 2008

National innovation systems, capabilities and economic development pp. 1417-1435

Jan Fagerberg and Martin Srholec

Rethinking the multi-level perspective of technological transitions pp. 1436-1445

Audley Genus and Anne-Marie Coles

Mapping public support for innovation: A comparison of policy alignment in the UK and France pp. 1446-1464

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas and Nick von Tunzelmann

China's national innovative capacity pp. 1465-1479

Mei-Chih Hu and John A. Mathews

Dynamics in innovation systems: Evidence from Japan's game software industry pp. 1480-1491

Cornelia Storz

Complementarities of innovation activities: An empirical analysis of the German manufacturing sector pp. 1492-1503

Claudia Schmiedeberg

Controlling innovative projects with moral hazard and asymmetric information pp. 1504-1514

Rouven Bergmann and Gunther Friedl

The effect of technological knowledge assets on performance: The innovative choice in Spanish firms pp. 1515-1529

Diaz-Di­az, Nieves Lidia, Aguiar-Di­az, Inmaculada and Petra De Saá-Pérez

Managing the protection of innovations in knowledge-intensive business services pp. 1530-1547

Nabil Amara, Réjean Landry and Namatié Traoré

Licensing or not licensing? An empirical analysis of the strategic use of patents by Japanese firms pp. 1548-1555

Kazuyuki Motohashi

Close to you? Bias and precision in patent-based measures of technological proximity pp. 1556-1567

Mary Benner and Joel Waldfogel

On estimating a knowledge production function at the firm and sector level using patent statistics pp. 1568-1578

Shyama Ramani, Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui and Myriam Carrère

The role of SME entrepreneurs' innovativeness and personality in the adoption of innovations pp. 1579-1590

Alberto Marcati, Gianluigi Guido and Alessandro M. Peluso

Memory objects in project environments: Storing, retrieving and adapting learning in project-based firms pp. 1591-1601

Eugenia Cacciatori

Digital disciplinary differences: An analysis of computer-mediated science and 'Mode 2' knowledge production pp. 1602-1615

Gaston Heimeriks, Peter van den Besselaar and Koen Frenken

Implications of managerial control on performance of Dutch academic (bio)medical and health research groups pp. 1616-1629

Inge van der Weijden, Dick de Gilder, Peter Groenewegen and Eduard Klasen

Technology, security, and policy implications of future transatlantic partnerships in space: Lessons from Galileo pp. 1630-1642

Vasilis Zervos and Donald S. Siegel

M. Kogan, M. Henkel and S. Hanney, Government and Research: Thirty Years of Evolution, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2006) 247 p., £71.50, ISBN: 978-1-4020-4444-1 pp. 1643-1644

Josie Ellis

T. Gossling, L. Oerlemans and R. Jansen, Editors, Inside Networks: A Process View on Multi-organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA (2007) ISBN 978-1-84542-784-9 320 pp., Hardback, Price: £69.95 pp. 1645-1646

Elisa Giuliani

Localised Technological Change, Towards the Economics of Complexity Cristiano Antonelli. Routledge (2008). 405 pp., Price: £85.00 (hbk), ISBN: 10-0415426839 pp. 1647-1648

Christian Le Bas

Bengt Hultqvist, Space, Science and Me ESA Publications Division, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (2003) 180 pp., Price: [euro]30, ISBN: 92-9092-996-0 pp. 1649-1650

Carol White

A. Jasinski, Editor, Transition Economies in the European Research and Innovation Area. New Challenges for their Science and Technology, WWZ, Warzaw (2004) 332 pp., ISBN: 83-89069-96-2 pp. 1651-1652

Rossitza Rousseva

Corrigendum to "Beyond industry-university links: Sourcing knowledge for innovation from consultants, private research organisations and the public science-base" [Res. Policy 37 (2008) 1079-1095] pp. 1653-1654

Bruce Tether and Abdelouahid Tajar

Volume 37, issue 8, 2008

Introduction to special section on university-industry linkages: The significance of tacit knowledge and the role of intermediaries pp. 1165-1166

Fumio Kodama, Shahid Yusuf and Kaoru Nabeshima

Intermediating knowledge exchange between universities and businesses pp. 1167-1174

Shahid Yusuf

Universities and regional economic development: The entrepreneurial University of Waterloo pp. 1175-1187

Allison Bramwell and David A. Wolfe

Building an innovation hub: A case study of the transformation of university roles in regional technological and economic development pp. 1188-1204

Jan Youtie and Philip Shapira

Mid-range universities' linkages with industry: Knowledge types and the role of intermediaries pp. 1205-1223

Mike Wright, Bart Clarysse, Andy Lockett and Mirjam Knockaert

The role of intermediation and absorptive capacity in facilitating university-industry linkages--An empirical study of TAMA in Japan pp. 1224-1240

Toshihiro Kodama

University-industry engagement: The formation of the Knowledge Integration Community (KIC) model at the Cambridge-MIT Institute pp. 1241-1254

Edward B. Acworth

A resource-based view on the interactions of university researchers pp. 1255-1266

Frank J. van Rijnsoever, Laurens K. Hessels and Rens L.J. Vandeberg

Academic organizations and new industrial fields: Berkeley and Stanford after the rise of biotechnology pp. 1267-1282

Simcha Jong

Sources of innovation and industry-university interaction: Evidence from Spanish firms pp. 1283-1295

Segarra-Blasco, Agusti­ and Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod

The power of integrality: Linkages between product architecture, innovation, and industry structure pp. 1296-1316

Sebastian K. Fixson and Jin-Kyu Park

The relationship between technology, innovation, and firm performance--Empirical evidence from e-business in Europe pp. 1317-1328

Philipp Koellinger

The role of inter-organizational relationships in the development of patents: A knowledge-based approach pp. 1329-1336

Mona Weck and Kirsimarja Blomqvist

Formal and informal interorganizational learning within strategic alliances pp. 1337-1355

Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan and Niels Noorderhaven

Revealing dynamics and consequences of fit and misfit between formal and informal networks in multi-institutional product development collaborations pp. 1356-1370

J. Kratzer, Hans G. Gemuenden and Christopher Lettl

Geographical amplitude in the international generation of technology: Present situation and business determinants pp. 1371-1381

María de los Ángeles Quintás, Xosé Vázquez, Garci­a, José M. and Gloria Caballero

Financial constraints in innovation projects: When is less more? pp. 1382-1391

Martin Hoegl, Michael Gibbert and David Mazursky

The private finance initiative, project form and design innovation: The UK's hospitals programme pp. 1392-1402

James Barlow and Martina Köberle-Gaiser

The effectiveness of subsidies revisited: Accounting for wage and employment effects in business R&D pp. 1403-1412

Guntram Wolff and Volker Reinthaler

M. Fransman, The New ICT Ecosystem: Implications for Europe, Kokoro, Edinburgh (2008) 260 pp., Price: £18.90, ISBN: 0955771013 pp. 1413-1414

Cristiano Antonelli

Volume 37, issue 6-7, 2008

Modelling the innovation value chain pp. 961-977

Stephen Roper, Jun Du and James H. Love

Technological paradigms, regimes and trajectories: Manufacturing and service industries in a new taxonomy of sectoral patterns of innovation pp. 978-994

Fulvio Castellacci

Liberalisation and R&D in network industries: The case of the electricity industry pp. 995-1008

Tooraj Jamasb and Michael Pollitt

Attitudes to innovation in peripheral economic regions pp. 1009-1021

Daniel Coronado, Manuel Acosta and Ana Fernández

R&D intensity, value appropriation and integration patterns within organizational boundaries pp. 1022-1034

Niron Hashai and Tamar Almor

Pendency and grant ratios of invention patents: A comparative study of the US and China pp. 1035-1046

Deli Yang

Antecedents of corporate spin-offs in Spain: A resource-based approach pp. 1047-1056

Félix López Iturriaga and Marti­n Cruz, Natalia

Public policies towards Research Joint Venture: Institutional design and participants' characteristics pp. 1057-1065

Mari­n, Pedro L. and Georges Siotis

Knowledge translation and research careers: Mode I and Mode II activity among health researchers pp. 1066-1078

Carole A. Estabrooks, Peter Norton, Judy M. Birdsell, Mandi S. Newton, Adeniyi J. Adewale and Richard Thornley

Beyond industry-university links: Sourcing knowledge for innovation from consultants, private research organisations and the public science-base pp. 1079-1095

Bruce Tether and Abdelouahid Tajar

R&D, higher education and regional growth: Uneven linkages among European regions pp. 1096-1107

Alessandro Sterlacchini

Inventive and uninventive clusters: The case of Canadian biotechnology pp. 1108-1131

Barak S. Aharonson, Joel A.C. Baum and Anne Plunket

'The tyranny of distance': Biotechnology networks and clusters in the antipodes pp. 1132-1144

Michael Gilding

Linda Jakobson, Editor, Innovation with Chinese Characteristics, High-Tech Research in China, Palgrave Macmillan/Finish Institute of International Affairs, Hampshire UK/New York, USA (2007) ISBN 978-0-230-00692-8 172 pp., Hardback, Price: £55 pp. 1145-1146

Shulin Gu

How much do specialists have to learn from each other when they jointly develop radical product innovations? pp. 1148-1163

Christina Schmickl and Alfred Kieser

Volume 37, issue 5, 2008

The performativity of routines: Theorising the influence of artefacts and distributed agencies on routines dynamics pp. 769-789

Luciana D'Adderio

Thinking about technology: Applying a cognitive lens to technical change pp. 790-805

Sarah Kaplan and Mary Tripsas

Two for the price of one?: Additionality effects of R&D subsidies: A comparison between Flanders and Germany pp. 806-822

Kris Aerts and Tobias Schmidt

Policies for science, technology and innovation: Translating rationales into regional policies in a multi-level setting pp. 823-835

Manuel Laranja, Elvira Uyarra and Kieron Flanagan

The dispersion of technology and income in Europe: Evolution and mutual relationship across regions pp. 836-848

Carlos Mulas-Granados and Ismael Sanz

A regional approach to study technology transfer through foreign direct investment: The electronics industry in two Mexican regions pp. 849-860

Ramón Padilla-Pérez

Regional knowledge spillovers: Fact or artifact? pp. 861-874

Gottfried Tappeiner, Christoph Hauser and Janette Walde

Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges pp. 875-887

Gabriele Bammer

Across institutional boundaries?: Research collaboration in German public sector nanoscience pp. 888-899

Thomas Heinze and Stefan Kuhlmann

University research centers and the composition of research collaborations pp. 900-913

P. Craig Boardman and Elizabeth A. Corley

Commercializing the laboratory: Faculty patenting and the open science environment pp. 914-931

Kira R. Fabrizio and Alberto Di Minin

The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics pp. 932-945

James Bessen

Internal sequential innovations: How does interrelatedness affect patent renewal? pp. 946-953

Kun Liu, Jonathan Arthurs, John Cullen and Roger Alexander

G.M. de Castro, P.L. Sáez, J.E.N. López and R.G. Dorado, Knowledge Creation Processes: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Firms, Palgrave Macmillan (2007) ISBN 0230013627 256 pp., £55.00 pp. 954-955

Dave Francis

E. Lorenz and B.-A. Lundvall, How Europe's Economies Learn. Coordinating Competing Models, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2006) 470 pp., £68.00, ISBN: 13: 978-0199203192 pp. 956-957

Stefano Sirilli

R.J. DeFillipi, M.B. Arthur and V.J. Lindsay, Knowledge at Work: Creative Collaboration in the Global Economy, Blackwell Publishing (2006) ISBN 1-4051-0756-1 276 pp., Price: £19.99 retail price pp. 958-959

Matias Ramirez

Volume 37, issue 4, 2008

An empirical study of scientific production: A cross country analysis, 1981-2002 pp. 565-579

Gustavo Crespi and Aldo Geuna

Decline of the center: The decentralizing process of knowledge transfer of Chinese universities from 1985 to 2004 pp. 580-595

Wei Hong

Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework pp. 596-615

Jochen Markard and Bernhard Truffer

The effect of external and internal factors on firms' product innovation pp. 616-632

Jaider Vega-Jurado, Antonio Gutiérrez-Gracia, Ignacio Fernández-de-Lucio and Manjarrés-Henri­quez, Liney

Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach pp. 633-648

Alex Coad and Rekha Rao-Nicholson

A neo-Schumpeterian model of health services innovation pp. 649-672

Paul Windrum and Garci­a-Goñi, Manuel

Regulatory policy, value of knowledge assets and innovation strategy: The case of the Orphan Drug Act pp. 673-689

Zaur Rzakhanov

From transaction to transformation costs: The case of Polaroid's SX-70 camera pp. 690-705

Raghu Garud and Kamal Munir

The diffusion of ADSL and costs of switching Internet providers in the broadband industry: Evidence from the French case pp. 706-719

Jackie Krafft and Evens Salies

The organisational-cooperation mode of innovation and its prominence amongst European service firms pp. 720-739

Bruce Tether and Abdelouahid Tajar

Re-thinking new knowledge production: A literature review and a research agenda pp. 740-760

Laurens K. Hessels and Harro van Lente

International patent protection: 1960-2005 pp. 761-766

Walter Park

Peter W.B. Phillips, Governing Transformative Technological Innovation: Who's in Charge?, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA (2007) 310 pp., Hardback, Price: £75, ISBN: 987 1 84720 237 6 pp. 767-768

Erik Millstone

Volume 37, issue 3, 2008

Do public subsidies stimulate private R&D spending? pp. 371-389

Xulia González and Consuelo Pazó

The maturation of global corporate R&D: Evidence from the activity of U.S. foreign subsidiaries pp. 390-406

Deepak Hegde and Diana Hicks

Analyzing the functional dynamics of technological innovation systems: A scheme of analysis pp. 407-429

Anna Bergek, Staffan Jacobsson, Bo Carlsson, Sven Lindmark and Annika Rickne

The evolving nature of Taiwan's national innovation system: The case of biotechnology innovation networks pp. 430-445

Mark Dodgson, John Mathews, Tim Kastelle and Mei-Chih Hu

Trade-related influences, foreign intellectual property rights and outbound international patenting pp. 446-459

Chih-Hai Yang and Nai-Fong Kuo

Institutionalizing end-user demand steering in agricultural R&D: Farmer levy funding of R&D in The Netherlands pp. 460-472

Laurens Klerkx and Cees Leeuwis

How much do specialists have to learn from each other when they jointly develop radical product innovations? pp. 473-491

Christina Schmickl and Alfred Kieser

Innovative competence, exploration and exploitation: The influence of technological diversification pp. 492-507

Quintana-Garci­a, Cristina and Carlos A. Benavides-Velasco

Technological paradigms and complex technical systems--The case of Smart Homes pp. 508-529

Alexander Peine

What determines overseas R&D activities? The case of Japanese multinational firms pp. 530-544

Satoshi Shimizutani and Yasuyuki Todo

Inter- and intra-firm diffusion of technology: The example of E-commerce: An analysis based on Swiss firm-level data pp. 545-564

Heinz Hollenstein and Martin Woerter

Volume 37, issue 2, 2008

Harnessing the hackers: The emergence and exploitation of Outlaw Innovation pp. 177-193

Stephen Flowers

Technology acquisition channels and industry performance: An industry-level analysis of Chinese large- and medium-size manufacturing enterprises pp. 194-209

Guo Bin

Speciation through entrepreneurial spin-off: The Acorn-ARM story pp. 210-224

Elizabeth Garnsey, Gianni Lorenzoni and Simone Ferriani

Under what conditions do firms benefit from the research efforts of other organizations? pp. 225-239

Mario I. Kafouros and Peter J. Buckley

The impact of firm participation in R&D programmes on R&D partnerships pp. 240-257

Isabel Busom and Andrea Fernández-Ribas

R&D support programs in developing countries: The Turkish experience pp. 258-275

Emre Özçelik and Erol Taymaz

Academic capabilities in developing countries--A conceptual framework with empirical illustrations from Thailand pp. 276-293

Ingo Liefner and Daniel Schiller

R&D internationalization, R&D collaboration and public knowledge institutions in small economies: Evidence from Finland and the Netherlands pp. 294-308

Cees van Beers, Pii Berghäll and Tom Poot

Innovation spaces: Workspace planning and innovation in U.S. university research centers pp. 309-329

Umut Toker and Denis O. Gray

Galileo's stream: A framework for understanding knowledge production pp. 330-352

J.Y. Tsao, K.W. Boyack, M.E. Coltrin, J.G. Turnley and W.B. Gauster

Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice pp. 353-369

Ash Amin and Joanne Roberts

Volume 37, issue 1, 2008

What enables rapid economic progress: What are the needed institutions pp. 1-11

Richard Nelson

In search of a useful theory of the productive potential of intellectual property rights pp. 12-28

Birgitte Andersen and Sue Konzelmann

The Bayh-Dole Act and university research and development pp. 29-40

Matthew Rafferty

The effect of government contracting on academic research: Does the source of funding affect scientific output pp. 41-58

Brent Goldfarb

First- and second-order additionality and learning outcomes in collaborative R&D programs pp. 59-76

Erkko Autio, Sami Kanninen and Robin Gustafsson

Distributed R&D, cross-regional knowledge integration and quality of innovative output pp. 77-96

Jasjit Singh

Technological flows and choice of joint ventures in technology alliances pp. 97-114

Esteban Garcia-Canal, Ana Valdes-Llaneza and Pablo Sanchez-Lorda

The development of a user network as a way to re-launch an unwanted product pp. 115-130

Debbie Harrison and Alexandra Waluszewski

Sources of differences in the pattern of adoption of organizational and managerial innovations from early to late 1990s, in the UK pp. 131-148

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas

Innovation persistence: Survey and case-study evidence pp. 149-162

Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas

Determinants of environmental innovation--New evidence from German panel data sources pp. 163-173

Jens Horbach

E. Lee and M. Vivarelli, Editors, Globalization, Employment and Income Distribution in Developing Countries, Palgrave McMillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK) and New York (USA) (2006) ISBN 978-0230007833 272 pp., Hardcover, Price: [pound sign]65.00 pp. 174-175

Raquel Ortega-Argiles