Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 10, 2007

A tale of two literatures: Transaction costs and property rights in innovation outsourcing pp. 1483-1495

Nishaal Gooroochurn and Aoife Hanley

Strategic repositioning by means of alliance networks: The case of IBM pp. 1496-1511

Koen Dittrich, Geert Duysters and Ard-Pieter de Man

Public research institutions and economic catch-up pp. 1512-1528

Roberto Mazzoleni and Richard Nelson

Determinants of successful R&D cooperation in Japanese small businesses: The impact of organizational and contractual characteristics pp. 1529-1544

Hiroyuki Okamuro

Innovation activities, use of appropriation instruments and absorptive capacity: Evidence from Spanish firms pp. 1545-1558

Anna Arbussa and Germà Coenders

A systems-based approach to industry classification pp. 1559-1574

Margaret Dalziel

From planning to mature: On the success of open source projects pp. 1575-1586

Stefano Comino, Fabio Manenti and Maria Laura Parisi

On the relationship between environmental management, environmental innovation and patenting: Evidence from German manufacturing firms pp. 1587-1602

Marcus Wagner

Making knowledge visible: Using expert yellow pages to map capabilities in professional services firms pp. 1603-1619

Paola Criscuolo, Ammon Salter and Tony Sheehan

Coordination costs and project outcomes in multi-university collaborations pp. 1620-1634

Jonathon N. Cummings and Sara Kiesler

Biosecurity, bioterrorism and the governance of science: The increasing convergence of science and security policy pp. 1635-1654

Caitriona McLeish and Paul Nightingale

A regional comparison of enterprise patent holdings: A study of British and Irish data pp. 1655-1665

Lynn Mainwaring, Nigel J. Moore and Philip D. Murphy

Davide Castellani and Antonello Zanfei, Multinational Firms, Innovation and Productivity, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA (2006) ISBN 1-84542-198-1 249 pp., [pound sign]59.95 hardback, [pound sign]25.00 paperback pp. 1666-1667

Simona Iammarino

The simple economics of Richard Nelson: A review essay pp. 1668-1672

Joel Mokyr

Volume 36, issue 9, 2007

University-industry linkages in the UK: What are the factors underlying the variety of interactions with industry? pp. 1295-1313

P. D'Este and Parimal Patel

A bridge over troubled waters: Bridging organisations and entrepreneurial opportunities in emerging sectors pp. 1314-1334

Jonathan Sapsed, Andrew Grantham and Robert DeFillippi

Upgrading the technological capabilities of foreign transnational subsidiaries in developing countries: The case of electronics in Thailand pp. 1335-1356

Michael Hobday and Howard Rush

Innovation and R&D spillover effects in Spanish regions: A spatial approach pp. 1357-1371

Bernardi Cabrer-Borras and Guadalupe Serrano-Domingo

Reducing the demand uncertainties at the fuzzy-front-end of developing new online services pp. 1372-1387

Muammer Ozer

Science, accounting and statistics: The input-output framework pp. 1388-1403

Benoit Godin

Measuring patent assessment quality--Analyzing the degree and kind of (in)consistency in patent offices' decision making pp. 1404-1430

Paul F. Burke and Markus Reitzig

Construction of a Japanese Patent Database and a first look at Japanese patenting activities pp. 1431-1442

Akira Goto and Kazuyuki Motohashi

R&D spillovers from subsidized firms that fail: Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms pp. 1443-1464

Jarle Møen

Industrial R&D as a national policy: Horizontal technology policies and industry-state co-evolution in the growth of the Israeli software industry pp. 1465-1482

Dan Breznitz

Volume 36, issue 8, 2007

Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey pp. 1105-1106

Paola Giuri and Myriam Mariani

Inventors and invention processes in Europe: Results from the PatVal-EU survey pp. 1107-1127

Paola Giuri, Myriam Mariani, Stefano Brusoni, Gustavo Crespi, Dominique Francoz, Alfonso Gambardella, Walter Garcia-Fontes, Aldo Geuna, Raul Gonzales, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Christian Le Bas, Alessandra Luzzi, Laura Magazzini, Lionel Nesta, Onder Nomaler, Neus Palomeras, Pari Patel, Marzia Romanelli and Bart Verspagen

"Stacking" and "picking" inventions: The patenting behavior of European inventors pp. 1128-1142

Myriam Mariani and Marzia Romanelli

Institutionalized incentives for ingenuity--Patent value and the German Employees' Inventions Act pp. 1143-1162

Dietmar Harhoff and Karin Hoisl

The market for patents in Europe pp. 1163-1183

Alfonso Gambardella, Paola Giuri and Alessandra Luzzi

Where excludability matters: Material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research pp. 1184-1203

John P. Walsh, Wesley M. Cohen and Charlene Cho

Investigating the interaction and mutual dependence between science and technology pp. 1204-1220

Catari Vilela Chaves and Sueli Moro

What exactly are technological regimes?: Intra-industry heterogeneity in the organization of innovation activities pp. 1221-1238

Aija Leiponen and Ina Drejer

A view from the coal face: UK research student perceptions of successful and unsuccessful collaborative projects pp. 1239-1250

Juliette Butcher and Paul Jeffrey

China's innovation system reform and growing industry and science linkages pp. 1251-1260

Kazuyuki Motohashi and Xiao Yun

New institutional policies for university-industry links in Japan pp. 1261-1274

Lee Woolgar

What factors determine the mode of overseas R&D by multinationals? Empirical evidence pp. 1275-1287

Banri Ito and Ryuhei Wakasugi

Volume 36, issue 7, 2007

Keeping plagiarism at bay--A salutary tale pp. 905-911

Ben Martin

Retraction notice to `Estimating demand for SDI-related spin-off technologies' [Res. Policy 22 (1) (1993) 73-80] pp. 912-911

Hans W. Gottinger

Profit distribution and compensation structures in publicly and privately funded hybrid venture capital funds pp. 913-929

Mikko Jaaskelainen, Markku Maula and Gordon Murray

Fishing upstream: Firm innovation strategy and university research alliances pp. 930-948

Janet E.L. Bercovitz and Maryann P. Feldman

Public procurement and innovation--Resurrecting the demand side pp. 949-963

Jakob Edler and Luke Georghiou

The impact of R&D spillovers on UK manufacturing TFP: A dynamic panel approach pp. 964-979

Dolores Anon Higon

On the value of project safeguards: Embedding real options in complex products and systems pp. 980-999

Nuno Gil

Double-boom cycles and the comeback of science-push and market-pull pp. 1000-1015

Ulrich Schmoch

Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity pp. 1016-1034

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

The determinants of research output and impact: A study of Mexican researchers pp. 1035-1051

Claudia Gonzalez-Brambila and Francisco M. Veloso

Commercialization of patents and external financing during the R&D phase pp. 1052-1069

Roger Svensson

Co-evolution of physical and social technologies in clinical practice: The case of HIV treatments pp. 1070-1087

Monica Merito and Andrea Bonaccorsi

Techno therapy or nurtured niches? Technology studies and the evaluation of radical innovations pp. 1088-1099

Anique Hommels, Peter Peters and Wiebe E. Bijker

Comment on `Techno therapy or nurtured niches?' by Hommels et al. [Res. Policy 36 (7) (2007)] pp. 1100-1101

Frank W. Geels and Johan Schot

Reply to Geels and Schot pp. 1102-1103

Anique Hommels, Peter Peters and Wiebe E. Bijker

Volume 36, issue 6, 2007

Understanding the emergence and deployment of "nano" S&T pp. 807-812

Barry Bozeman, Philippe Laredo and Vincent Mangematin

Institutional complementarity and inventive performance in nano science and technology pp. 813-831

Andrea Bonaccorsi and Grid Thoma

The nanotech versus the biotech revolution: Sources of productivity in incumbent firm research pp. 832-849

Frank Rothaermel and Marie Thursby

Minerva unbound: Knowledge stocks, knowledge flows and new knowledge production pp. 850-863

Lynne Zucker, Michael Darby, Jonathan Furner, Robert C. Liu and Hongyan Ma

Diversification and hybridization in firm knowledge bases in nanotechnologies pp. 864-870

Eric Avenel, A.V. Favier, S. Ma, Vincent Mangematin and C. Rieu

Technological agglomeration and the emergence of clusters and networks in nanotechnology pp. 871-879

Douglas K.R. Robinson, Arie Rip and Vincent Mangematin

China's emerging presence in nanoscience and nanotechnology: A comparative bibliometric study of several nanoscience `giants' pp. 880-886

Jiancheng Guan and Nan Ma

The small size of the small scale market: The early-stage labor market for highly skilled nanotechnology workers pp. 887-892

Paula Stephan, Grant Black and Tanwin Chang

Data search strategy for science and technology emergence: A scalable and evolutionary query for nanotechnology tracking pp. 893-903

Andrei Mogoutov and Bernard Kahane

Volume 36, issue 5, 2007

The short-run price-performance dynamics of microcomputer technologies pp. 591-604

James Westland and Eric Wing Kuen See-To

Internet entrepreneurship: Social capital, human capital, and performance of Internet ventures in China pp. 605-618

Bat Batjargal

Tracing mobile inventors--The causality between inventor mobility and inventor productivity pp. 619-636

Karin Hoisl

Public provision of sales contingent claims backed finance to SMEs: A policy alternative pp. 637-651

Kim Kaivanto and Paul Stoneman

The endogenous relationship between innovation and diversification, and the impact of technological resources on the form of diversification pp. 652-664

Antonio Rodriguez-Duarte, Francesco Sandulli, Beatriz Minguela-Rata and Jose Ignacio Lopez-Sanchez

Measuring the effects of public support schemes on firms' innovation activities: Survey evidence from Austria pp. 665-679

Rahel Falk

Forms of knowledge and modes of innovation pp. 680-693

Morten Jensen, Bjorn Johnson, Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Impacts of grants and contracts on academic researchers' interactions with industry pp. 694-707

Barry Bozeman and Monica Gaughan

New wine in old bottles: Technological diffusion in developed economies pp. 708-721

Paul Robertson and Parimal Patel

Experienced entrepreneurial founders, organizational capital, and venture capital funding pp. 722-741

David H. Hsu

Market-level information and the diffusion of competing technologies: An exploratory analysis of the LAN industry pp. 742-757

Vasilis Theoharakis, Demetrios Vakratsas and Veronica Wong

Effects of R&D and networking on the export decision of Japanese firms pp. 758-767

Eiichi Tomiura

Entrepreneurs from technology-based universities: Evidence from MIT pp. 768-788

David H. Hsu, Edward B. Roberts and Charles E. Eesley

Mapping evolutionary trajectories: Applications to the growth and transformation of medical knowledge pp. 789-806

Andrea Mina, Ronald Ramlogan, Gindo Tampubolon and John Metcalfe

Volume 36, issue 4, 2007

Biotechnology: Its origins, organization, and outputs pp. 433-437

Mark Ebers and Walter W. Powell

How do technology clusters emerge and become sustainable?: Social network formation and inter-firm mobility within the San Diego biotechnology cluster pp. 438-455

Steven Casper

From divergent meanings to common practices: The early institutionalization of technology transfer in the life sciences at Stanford University pp. 456-476

Jeannette A. Colyvas

Vertical alliance networks: The case of university-biotechnology-pharmaceutical alliance chains pp. 477-498

Toby E. Stuart, Salih Zeki Ozdemir and Waverly W. Ding

Where do alliances come from?: The effects of upper echelons on alliance formation pp. 499-514

Jerry W. Kim and Monica C. Higgins

Technological knowledge base, R&D organization structure and alliance formation: Evidence from the biopharmaceutical industry pp. 515-528

Jing Zhang, Charles Baden-Fuller and Vincent Mangematin

Modes of organizing biomedical innovation in the UK and US and the role of integrative and relational capabilities pp. 529-547

Jacky Swan, Anna Goussevskaia, Sue Newell, Maxine Robertson, Mike Bresnen and Ademola Obembe

Shareholder returns and the exploration-exploitation dilemma: R&D announcements by biotechnology firms pp. 548-565

Peter Mc Namara and Charles Baden-Fuller

The myth of the biotech revolution: An assessment of technological, clinical and organisational change pp. 566-589

Michael M. Hopkins, Paul A. Martin, Paul Nightingale, Alison Kraft and Surya Mahdi

Volume 36, issue 3, 2007

If star scientists do not patent: The effect of productivity, basicness and impact on the decision to patent in the academic world pp. 303-319

Mario Calderini, Chiara Franzoni and Andrea Vezzulli

Inheriting knowledge and sustaining relationships: What stimulates the innovative performance of small software firms in the Netherlands? pp. 320-335

Anet Weterings and Sierdjan Koster

Orphan drugs: Unmet societal need for non-profitable privately supplied new products pp. 336-354

Ellen H.M. Moors and Jan Faber

Innovation performance and channels for international technology spillovers: Evidence from Chinese high-tech industries pp. 355-366

Xiaohui Liu and Trevor Buck

Complementarities in organizational design and the diffusion of information technologies: An empirical analysis pp. 367-386

Rachel Bocquet, Olivier Brossard and Mareva Sabatier

Patent indicators for the technology life cycle development pp. 387-398

Reinhard Haupt, Martin Kloyer and Marcus Lange

Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways pp. 399-417

Frank W. Geels and Johan Schot

Schumpeterian patterns of innovative activity in the ICT field pp. 418-432

Nicoletta Corrocher, Franco Malerba and Fabio Montobbio

Volume 36, issue 2, 2007

Open source software development--Just another case of collective invention? pp. 157-171

Margit Osterloh and Sandra Rota

Knowledge, learning and small firm growth: A systematic review of the evidence pp. 172-192

Allan Macpherson and Robin Holt

Patents, venture capital, and software start-ups pp. 193-208

Ronald J. Mann and Thomas W. Sager

Creating competition?: Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers pp. 209-226

Suma Athreye and John Cantwell

Regional economic integration and R&D investment pp. 227-246

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and C. Annique Un

Social learning by doing in sustainable transport innovations: Ex-post analysis of common factors behind successes and failures pp. 247-259

Jeroen van den Bergh, Eveline van Leeuwen, F.H. Oosterhuis, Piet Rietveld and Erik Verhoef

Relative efficiency of R&D activities: A cross-country study accounting for environmental factors in the DEA approach pp. 260-273

Eric C. Wang and Weichiao Huang

The structure of invention pp. 274-287

W. Brian Arthur

The impact of cognitive communities on the diffusion of academic knowledge: Evidence from the networks of inventors of a French university pp. 288-302

Caroline Hussler and Patrick Ronde

Volume 36, issue 1, 2007

Editorial pp. 1-2

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

Global R&D activities of Japanese MNCs in the US: A triangulation approach pp. 3-36

Sam Kurokawa, Satoshi Iwata and Edward B. Roberts

Developing reputation to overcome the imperfections in the markets for knowledge pp. 37-55

Ulrich Lichtenthaler and Holger Ernst

Women in interdisciplinary science: Exploring preferences and consequences pp. 56-75

Diana Rhoten and Stephanie Pfirman

Technology parks and regional economic growth in China pp. 76-87

Albert Guangzhou Hu

The innovative behaviour of tourism firms--Comparative studies of Denmark and Spain pp. 88-106

Jon Sundbo, Francina Orfila-Sintes and Flemming Sorensen

Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size pp. 107-120

Luis M.A. Bettencourt, Jose Lobo and Deborah Strumsky

Trade in disembodied technology and total factor productivity in OECD countries pp. 121-133

Pedro Mendi

On sharks, trolls, and their patent prey--Unrealistic damage awards and firms' strategies of "being infringed" pp. 134-154

Markus Reitzig, Joachim Henkel and Christopher Heath

D. Vinck, Editor, Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2003) pp. 155-156

Shyama Ramani