Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 52, issue 10, 2023

Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China

Li Shu and Wei Wang

Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda

Bernardo Caldarola, Marco Grazzi, Martina Occelli and Marco Sanfilippo

The effects of institutional investors and their contestability on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Dan Zhang, Xiaofei Pan and Shiguang Ma

The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI

Andrea Borsato and André Lorentz

The role of gender and coauthors in academic publication behavior

Wolfgang Schmal, Justus Haucap and Leon Knoke

Weeding out or picking winners in open innovation? Factors driving multi-stage crowd selection on LEGO ideas

Linus Dahlander, Michela Beretta, Arne Thomas, Shahab Kazemi, Morten H.J. Fenger and Lars Frederiksen

Beyond plastic – Consumers prefer food packaging derived from genetically modified plants

Ursula Weisenfeld, Antoniya Hauerwaas, Ossama Elshiewy, Pradipta Halder, Justus Wesseler, Kutay Cingiz and Inge Broer

Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level

Rahel Meili and Tobias Stucki

The impacts of lockdown on open source software contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jin Hu, Daning Hu, Xuan Yang and Michael Chau

Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks

Milad Abbasiharofteh, Dieter Kogler and Balázs Lengyel

Are public health policies associated with corporate innovation? Evidence from U.S. nonsmoking laws

Adam J. Olson, Christopher G. Yust and Brant E. Christensen

Volume 52, issue 9, 2023

Intellectual property rights and the international transfer of climate change mitigating technologies

Suma Athreye, Vinish Kathuria, Alessandro Martelli and Lucia Piscitello

Wearing multiple hats—The role of working group chairs’ affiliation in standards development

Justus Baron and Olia Kanevskaia

The World War II crisis innovation model: What was it, and where does it apply?

Daniel Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat

Open source software and global entrepreneurship

Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein

Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share

Michael Koch and Ilya Manuylov

Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy

Juana Bustamante, Christine Oughton, Vanesa Pesque-Cela and Damian Tobin

Collective intellectual property of Indigenous peoples and local communities: Exploring power asymmetries in the rooibos geographical indication and industry-wide benefit-sharing agreement

Camille Meyer and Kiruben Naicker

Individualistic CEO and corporate innovation: Evidence from U.S. frontier culture

Lei Gao, Jianlei Han, Zheyao Pan and Huixuan Zhang

Partisan patent examiners? Exploring the link between the political ideology of patent examiners and patent office outcomes

Joseph Raffiee, Florenta Teodoridis and Daniel Fehder

Measuring follow-on innovation

Janet Freilich and Sepehr Shahshahani

Linking embeddedness to physical career mobility: How Brexit affected the preference of business, economics and management academics for leaving the UK

Chris Brewster, Rita Fontinha, Washika Haak-Saheem, Fabio Lamperti and James Walker

Early-career academic engagement in university–industry collaborative PhDs: Research orientation and project performance

Quentin Plantec, Benjamin Cabanes, Pascal le Masson and Benoit Weil

The policy implications of economic complexity

Cesar Hidalgo

Explaining technical change and its impacts over the very long term: The case of the Atlantic sardine fishery in France from 1900 to 2017

Pascal Le Floc'h, Mathieu Merzéréaud, Jennifer Beckensteiner, Frédérique Alban, Erwan Duhamel, Olivier Thébaud and James Wilson

Closing the gender gap in academia? Evidence from an affirmative action program

Mario Fernandes, Simon Hilber, Jan-Egbert Sturm and Andreas Walter

A multi-level perspective of potential transition pathways towards cultured meat: Finnish and German political stakeholder perceptions

Jana Moritz, Maria McPartlin, Hanna L. Tuomisto and Toni Ryynänen

First-mover advantage and the private value of public science

Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon and Bernardo Dionisi

Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making

Cornelia Lawson and Ammon Salter

Minding the communications gap: How can universities signal the availability and value of their scientific knowledge to commercial organizations?

Shukhrat Nasirov and Amol M. Joshi

Volume 52, issue 8, 2023

Intellectual property coordinators' cohorts: A study into the imprints in university technology transfer

Dolores Modic and Jana Suklan

Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle

Elena Cefis, Alex Coad and Alessandro Lucini-Paioni

Competition makes IT better: Evidence on when firms use IT more effectively

Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López and Marc Schiffbauer

Interfaces, modularity and ecosystem emergence: How DARPA modularized the semiconductor ecosystem

Jennifer Kuan and Joel West

Does public R&D funding crowd-in private R&D investment? Evidence from military R&D expenditures for US states

Gianluca Pallante, Emanuele Russo and Andrea Roventini

Firm innovation and generalized trust as a regional resource

Thore Sören Bischoff, Ann Hipp and Petrik Runst

Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms' patent litigation

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis, Andreas Procopiou and Wolfgang Sofka

Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry

Franziska Kaiser, Alexander Cuntz and Christian Peukert

Mapping firms’ locations in technological space: A topological analysis of patent statistics

Emerson G. Escolar, Yasuaki Hiraoka, Mitsuru Igami and Yasin Ozcan

Are patent offices substitutes?

Elise Petit, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Lluis Gimeno-Fabra

Revisiting the consequences of loans secured by patents on technological firms' intellectual property and innovation strategies

Cécile Ayerbe, Jamal Azzam, Selma Boussetta and Julien Pénin

Geographic isolation, trade secrecy, and innovation

Andrea Contigiani and Marco Testoni

Ecological community logics, identifiable business ownership, and green innovation as a company response

Yannick Bammens and Paul Hünermund

Laboratory safety and research productivity

Alberto Galasso, Hong Luo and Brooklynn Zhu

Anticipatory innovation of professional services: The case of auditing and artificial intelligence

Masashi Goto

Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations?

Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Emma Stuart, Meiko Makita, Mahshid Abdoli, Paul Wilson and Jonathan Levitt

Standards and innovation: A review and introduction to the special issue

Knut Blind, Martin Kenney, Aija Leiponen and Timothy Simcoe

Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance

M. Mostak Ahamed, Kul Luintel and Sushanta K. Mallick

Heroes of diffusion: Making user innovations widely available

Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Coen Rigtering and Lara Spaans

Getting seen: Results from an online experiment to draw more attention to replications

Tom Coupé, W. Reed and Christian Zimmermann

The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?

James H. Love, Stephen Roper and Priit Vahter

Teaching benefits of multi-helix university-industry research collaborations: Towards a holistic framework

Dhruba Borah, Silvia Massini and Khaleel Malik

Local peer communities and future academic success of Ph.D. candidates

Mignon Wuestman, Iris Wanzenböck and Koen Frenken

Technological profiles, upgrading and the dynamics of growth: Country-level patterns and trajectories across distinct stages of development

Esin Yoruk, Slavo Radosevic and Bruno Fischer

Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness

Martin Obschonka, Sam Tavassoli, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling

Volume 52, issue 7, 2023

Getting schooled: Universities and VC-backed immigrant entrepreneurs

Natee Amornsiripanitch, Paul Gompers, George Hu and Kaushik Vasudevan

Market for technology 2.0? Reassessing the role of complementary assets on licensing decisions

Solon Moreira, Thomas Maximilian Klueter and Aman Asija

Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems

Kathrin Borner, Hans Berends, Fleur Deken and Frans Feldberg

How does competition influence innovative effort within a platform-based ecosystem? Contrasting paid and unpaid contributors

Milan Miric and Lars Bo Jeppesen

The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide

Maya Durvasula, C. Scott Hemphill, Lisa Ouellette, Bhaven Sampat and Heidi Williams

Crowd-based feedback and early-stage entrepreneurial performance: Evidence from a digital platform

Aurelien Quignon

A simple measure of economic complexity

Sabiou Inoua

Trade secrets laws and technology spillovers

Yanzhi Wang

Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support

Stephan Manning and Stanislav Vavilov

Configuration of inclusive innovation systems: Function, agents and capabilities

María Luisa Villalba Morales, Walter Ruiz Castañeda and Jorge Robledo Velásquez

Affiliation bias in peer review and the gender gap

Kao Si, Yiwei Li, Chao Ma and Feng Guo

Private and social functions of patents: Innovation, markets, and new firms

Alfonso Gambardella

Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects

James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou

Patent regime and the geography of cumulative innovation

Qinyu Ryan Wang and Yanfeng Zheng

The geography of breakthrough invention in the United States over the 20th century

Christopher R. Esposito

Reconceptualising innovation failure

David Baxter, Paul Trott and Paul Ellwood

Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety

Mattia Pedota

Financial and knowledge barriers to innovation: Complementary and substitution effects on innovative effort

Micaela Vidal Jaureguy, Carlos Bianchi and Pablo Blanchard

Too official to be effective: An empirical examination of unofficial information channel and continued use of retracted articles

Haifeng Xu, Yi Ding, Cheng Zhang and Bernard C.Y. Tan

Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)

Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Juneman Abraham, Ilham Akhsanu Ridlo, Harya Dwi Nugraha, Ismail Suardi Wekke, Anis Fuad, Alfend Rudyawan and Cahyo Seftyono

Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy

Mario Calderini, Magali Fia and Francesco Gerli

Volume 52, issue 6, 2023

Short-term incentives of research evaluations: Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework

Moqi Groen-Xu, Gregor Bös, Pedro A. Teixeira, Thomas Voigt and Bernhard Knapp

Topic choice, gendered language, and the under-funding of female scholars in mission-oriented research

Raffaele Mancuso, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra and Chiara Franzoni

In the name of TRIPS: The impact of IPR harmonisation on patent activity in Latin America

Valeria Arza, Andrés López, Gabriel Montes-Rojas and Paulo Pascuini

Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking

Dize Dinçkol, Pinar Ozcan and Markos Zachariadis

Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations

Clemens Fiedler, Maria Larrain and Jens Prüfer

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique

Alex Coad and Stjepan Srhoj

How does late-career entrepreneurship relate to innovation?

Martin Murmann, Virva Salmivaara and Ewald Kibler

The S-shaped relationship between open innovation and financial performance: A longitudinal perspective using a novel text-based measure

Thomas Schäper, Christopher Jung, Johann Nils Foege, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, Stav Fainshmidt and Stephan Nüesch

Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means

Jakob Edler, Knut Blind, Henning Kroll and Torben Schubert

Editor home bias?

Amir Rubin, Eran Rubin and Dan Segal

Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures

Lutao Ning, Rui Guo and Kaihua Chen

Design thinking and public sector innovation: The divergent effects of risk-taking, cognitive empathy and emotional empathy on individual performance

Jarrod P. Vassallo, Sourindra Banerjee, Hasanuzzaman Zaman and Jaideep C. Prabhu

Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?

Jesús de Frutos-Belizón, Natalia García-Carbonell, Marta Ruíz-Martínez and Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey

Performance-based research funding: Evidence from the largest natural experiment worldwide

Albert Banal-Estañol, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Giulia Iori, Laia Maynou, Michele Tumminello and Pietro Vassallo

Fostering generativity in platform ecosystems: How open innovation and complexity interact to influence platform adoption

Iman Miremadi, Mostafa Khoshbash and MohammadMahdi Saeedian

Unpacking the intellectual structure of ecosystem research in innovation studies

Xianwei Shi, Xingkun Liang and Yining Luo

Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics

Luis Diestre, Fabrice Lumineau and Rodolphe Durand

Technological competition and patent strategy: Protecting innovation, preempting rivals and defending the freedom to operate

Riccardo Cappelli, Marco Corsino, Keld Laursen and Salvatore Torrisi

Volume 52, issue 5, 2023

Demand-pull, technology-push, and the direction of technological change

Kerstin Hötte

The dark side of signals: Patents protecting radical inventions and venture capital investments

Massimo G. Colombo, Massimiliano Guerini, Karin Hoisl and Nico M. Zeiner

Academic scientists in corporate R&D: A theoretical model

Catalina Martínez and Sarah Parlane

Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Alfons Palangkaraya

Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia

Caroline V. Fry, John Lynham and Shannon Tran

Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations

Eric A. Fong, Ravi Patnayakuni and Allen W. Wilhite

Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent

Giovanni Marin and Francesco Vona

Volume 52, issue 4, 2023

Firm exit from open multiparty alliances: The role of social influence, uncertainty, and interfirm imitation in collective technology development

Rand Gerges-Yammine and Anne L.J. Ter Wal

National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets

Afonso Amaral, M. Granger Morgan, Joana Mendonça and Erica R.H. Fuchs

Gender diversity in firm ownership: Direct and indirect effects on firm-level innovation across 29 emerging economies

Vartuhi Tonoyan and Christopher Boudreaux

Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments

Liwen Wang, Jason Lu Jin and Kevin Zheng Zhou

Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents

Fabrizio Fusillo

Hiding practices in employee-user innovation

Mia Rosa Hartmann and Rasmus Koss Hartmann

Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance

Jesus Valero-Gil, Jordi A. Surroca, Josep A. Tribo, Leopoldo Gutierrez and Ivan Montiel

Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences

Ningning Zhang, Dingyi You, Le Tang and Ke Wen

Vaccine technology transfer in a global health crisis: Actors, capabilities, and institutions

Elize Massard da Fonseca, Kenneth C. Shadlen and Helena de Moraes Achcar

Continuing patent applications at the USPTO

Cesare Righi, Davide Cannito and Theodor Vladasel

Better educated children, better Internet-connected elderly parents

Lei Lei, Dandan Yu and Yang Zhou

Volume 52, issue 3, 2023

The heterogeneous effects of patent scope on licensing propensity

Honggi Lee

Global value chains and domestic innovation

Keiko Ito, Kenta Ikeuchi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis and Antonin Bergeaud

How does digital piracy affect innovation? Evidence from software firms

Wendy A. Bradley and Julian Kolev

Chilling effects of patent trolls

Feng Chen, Yu Hou, Jiaping Qiu and Gordon Richardson

Understanding regional innovation cultures: Narratives, directionality, and conservative innovation in Bavaria

Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Alexander Wentland and Luise Ruge

Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China

Xiaosheng Ju, Shengjun Jiang and Qifeng Zhao

The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector

Max Mulhuijzen and Jeroen P.J. de Jong

Institutional logics and founders' identity orientation: Why academic entrepreneurs aspire lower venture growth

Bart Clarysse, Petra Andries, Sarah Boone and Jolien Roelandt

American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living

Tim Sainburg

Volume 52, issue 2, 2023

Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields

D’Este, Pablo and Nicolás Robinson-García

The determinants of AI innovation across European firms

Ioana Igna and Francesco Venturini

Differential “progressibility” in human know-how: A conceptual overview

John P. Nelson

Learning-by-hiring: How do rival firms learn from focal firm's hiring

Mayank Varshney

Are ideas being fished out?

Leonardo Klüppel and Anne Marie Knott

Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?

Muthu De Silva, Omar Al-Tabbaa and Jonathan Pinto

How and why accelerators enhance female entrepreneurship

Gil Avnimelech and Eyal Rechter

Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: Evidence from university versus corporate patents

Nancy Kong, Uwe Dulleck, Adam Jaffe, Shupeng Sun and Sowmya Vajjala

Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software

Sanjay Jain, Habib A. Islam, Martin C. Goossen and Anil Nair

Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs

Kostas Selviaridis, Alan Hughes and Martin Spring

Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?

Rachel Wynberg

From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity

Alexander Cuntz and Jan Peuckert

Towards an integrated framework for evaluating transformative innovation policy

Carolina R. Haddad and Anna Bergek

Catching-up during technological windows of opportunity: An industry product categories perspective

Claudio Giachetti and Deborah Tiniwah Mensah

Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector

Anabel Marin, Lilia Stubrin and Patrick van Zwanenberg

Geographic clusters, regional productivity and resource reallocation across firms: Evidence from China

Di Guo, Kun Jiang, Chenggang Xu and Xiyi Yang

Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance

Khaldoon Albitar, Habiba Al-Shaer and Yang Stephanie Liu

The impact of geographical distance on learning through collaboration

Frank van der Wouden and Hyejin Youn

Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Emma Lappi

Volume 52, issue 1, 2023

The digitalisation paradox of everyday scientific labour: How mundane knowledge work is amplified and diversified in the biosciences

Barbara Ribeiro, Robert Meckin, Andrew Balmer and Philip Shapira

Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries

Alberto Nonnis, Ahmed Bounfour and Keungoui Kim

Disclosure rules and declared essential patents

Rudi Bekkers, Christian Catalini, Arianna Martinelli, Cesare Righi and Timothy Simcoe

R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea

Yumi Koh and Gea M. Lee

Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry

Desirée F. Pacheco and Theodore A. Khoury

Business optimism and the innovation-profitability nexus: Introducing the COVID-19 adaptable capacity framework

King Yoong Lim and Diego Morris

Standing on the shoulders of giants: How star scientists influence their coauthors

Nathan Betancourt, Torsten Jochem and Sarah M.G. Otner

Entrepreneurial innovativeness: When too little or too much agglomeration hurts

Emilio Pindado, Mercedes Sánchez and Marian García Martínez

Practicing secrecy in open innovation – The case of a military firm

Jonathan Langlois, Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and Romaric Servajean-Hilst

Public support of science: A contingent valuation study of citizens' attitudes about CERN with and without information about implicit taxes

Francesco Giffoni and Massimo Florio

Does fake news affect voting behaviour?

Michele Cantarella, Nicolò Fraccaroli and Roberto Volpe

Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting

Mary Kaltenberg, Adam Jaffe and Margie E. Lachman

Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications

Mafini Dosso, Lorenzo Cassi and Wilfriedo Mescheba

Productivity gains from migration: Evidence from inventors

Gabriele Pellegrino, Orion Penner, Etienne Piguet and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Research and market structure: Evidence from an antibiotic-resistant pathogenic outbreak

Mayank Aggarwal, Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Chirantan Chatterjee and Matthew Higgins

Incentivizing angels to invest in start-ups: Evidence from a natural experiment

Eliran Solodoha, Stav Rosenzweig and Shai Harel

We're in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU

Davide Consoli, Valeria Costantini and Elena Paglialunga

Do innovative firms pay higher wages? Micro-level evidence from Brazil

Xavier Cirera and Antonio Soares Martins-Neto

Technology transfer from national/federal labs and public research institutes: Managerial and policy implications

Donald Siegel, Marcel L.A.M. Bogers, P. Devereaux Jennings and Lan Xue

Decertification in quality-management standards by incrementally and radically innovative organizations

Joseph Clougherty and Michal Grajek

Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?

Anna Lukkarinen and Armin Schwienbacher

Passing the torch of knowledge: Star death, collaborative ties, and knowledge creation

Rajat Khanna

Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage

Ashish Arora, Wesley Cohen, Honggi Lee and Divya Sebastian

Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation

Peter Scott and Anna Spadavecchia

Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings

Avi Goldfarb, Bledi Taska and Florenta Teodoridis

Do social policies foster innovation? Evidence from India's CSR regulation

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Swarnodeep Homroy

The effects of terrorist attacks on inventor productivity and mobility

Eliezer M. Fich, Tung Nguyen and Dimitris Petmezas

Acceptance of Chinese latecomers' technological contributions in international ICT standardization — The role of origin, experience and collaboration

Lennart Schott and Kerstin J. Schaefer

The quality of innovation “Booms” during “Busts”

Christos Makridis and Erin McGuire

Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Rentocchini and Francesco Vona

Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science

Ruchir Agarwal, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaulé and Geoff Smith

How does co-authoring with a star affect scientists' productivity? Evidence from small open economies

Anil Yadav, John McHale and Stephen O'Neill

Are public subsidies effective for university spinoffs? Evidence from SBIR awards in the University of California system

Riccardo Fini, Markus Perkmann, Martin Kenney and Kanetaka M. Maki