Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 33, issue 10, 2004

Approaching the innovation frontier in Korea: the transition phase to leadership pp. 1433-1457

Michael Hobday, Howard Rush and John Bessant

Who participates in R&D subsidy programs?: The case of Spanish manufacturing firms pp. 1459-1476

Jose Blanes and Isabel Busom

Cooperative R&D and firm performance pp. 1477-1492

Rene Belderbos, Martin Carree and Boris Lokshin

Implementing R&D policies: an analysis of Spain's pharmaceutical research program pp. 1493-1507

Klaus Desmet, Praveen Kujal and Félix Lobo

From local networks of SMEs to virtual districts?: Evidence from recent trends in Italy pp. 1509-1528

Maria Chiarvesio, Eleonora Di Maria and Stefano Micelli

Projects and firms as discordant complements: organisational learning in the Munich software ecology pp. 1529-1546

Oliver Ibert

Technological outsourcing and product diversification: do markets for technology affect firms' strategies? pp. 1547-1564

Fabrizio Cesaroni

What determines technological hits?: Geography versus firm competencies pp. 1565-1582

Myriam Mariani

Interrelation between patenting and standardisation strategies: empirical evidence and policy implications pp. 1583-1598

Knut Blind and Nikolaus Thumm

Determinants of international activity: evidence from the chemical processing industry pp. 1599-1614

Andrea Fosfuri

Science and the diffusion of knowledge pp. 1615-1634

Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming

Spillovers from publicly financed business R&D: some empirical evidence from Germany pp. 1635-1655

Werner Bönte

Committing to vaccine R&D: a global science policy priority pp. 1657-1671

Daniele Archibugi and Kim Bizzarri

Knowledge flows through informal contacts in industrial clusters: myth or reality? pp. 1673-1686

Michael Dahl and Christian O.R. Pedersen

Entry, exit and knowledge: evidence from a cluster in the info-communications industry pp. 1687-1706

Jackie Krafft

In: J. Tidd and M.F. Hull, Editors, Service Innovation: Organizational Responses to Technological Opportunities and Market Imperatives, Imperial College Press, London (2003) (437 pp., [Ukpound]48.00, ISBN: 1-86094-367-5) pp. 1707-1709

Thomas Stahlecker

In: A.B. Jaffe and M. Trajtenberg, Editors, Patents, Citations & Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy, MIT Press (2002) (478 pp. [Ukpound]33.50, ISBN 0-262-10095-9) pp. 1709-1711

Bart Verspagen

Volume 33, issue 9, 2004

What do we know about innovation? pp. 1253-1258

Virginia Acha, Orietta Marsili and Richard Nelson

Technological capabilities, invisible infrastructure and the un-social construction of predictability: the overlooked fixed costs of useful research pp. 1259-1284

Paul Nightingale

Technological internationalisation in the electro-technical industry: a cross-company comparison of patenting patterns 1986-2000 pp. 1285-1306

Anna Bergek and Christian Berggren

Contingency in innovation and the role of national systems: taxol and taxotere in the USA and France pp. 1307-1327

Vivien Walsh and Muriel Le Roux

Catching up or standing still?: National innovative productivity among 'follower' countries, 1978-1999 pp. 1329-1354

Jeffrey L. Furman and Richard Hayes

How large is the Swedish 'academic' sector really?: A critical analysis of the use of science and technology indicators pp. 1355-1372

Staffan Jacobsson and Annika Rickne

Indicators for national science and technology policy: how robust are composite indicators? pp. 1373-1384

Hariolf Grupp and Mary Ellen Mogee

Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change pp. 1385-1404

Sandro Mendonça, Tiago Santos Pereira and Manuel Godinho

The scientometric world of Keith Pavitt: A tribute to his contributions to research policy and patent analysis pp. 1405-1417

Martin Meyer, Tiago Santos Pereira, Olle Persson and Ove Granstrand

Keith Pavitt and the Invisible College of the Economics of Technology and Innovation pp. 1419-1431

Bart Verspagen and Claudia Werker

Volume 33, issue 8, 2004

Selection environments, flexibility and the success of the gas turbine pp. 1065-1080

Jim Watson

Does research organization influence academic production?: Laboratory level evidence from a large European university pp. 1081-1102

Nicolas Carayol and Mireille Matt

Controlling contractual exchange risks in R&D interfirm cooperation: an empirical study pp. 1103-1122

Roland Helm and Martin Kloyer

An audit of technological innovation capabilities in chinese firms: some empirical findings in Beijing, China pp. 1123-1140

Richard C. M. Yam, Jian Cheng Guan, Kit Fai Pun and Esther P. Y. Tang

Licensing as a commercialisation strategy for new technology-based firms pp. 1141-1151

Holger Kollmer and Michael Dowling

Team member proximity and teamwork in innovative projects pp. 1153-1165

Martin Hoegl and Luigi Proserpio

Today's Edisons or weekend hobbyists: technical merit and success of inventions by independent inventors pp. 1167-1183

Kristina Dahlin, Margaret Taylor and Mark Fichman

Complementarities between obstacles to innovation: evidence from France pp. 1185-1199

Fabrice Galia and Diègo Legros

Searching high and low: what types of firms use universities as a source of innovation? pp. 1201-1215

Keld Laursen and Ammon Salter

The obsession for competitiveness and its impact on statistics: the construction of high-technology indicators pp. 1217-1229

Benoit Godin

Does a focal firm's technology entry timing depend on the impact of the technology on co-opetitors? pp. 1231-1246

Allan Afuah

Internationalisation, Technology and Services: Marcela Miozo, Ian Miles (Eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA, 2003, 288 pp., Price [UK pound]69.95 Hardback, ISBN 1-84376-053-3 pp. 1247-1248

Annamaria Inzelt

Inter-Firm Collaboration, Learning & Networks. An Integrated Approach: Bart Nooteboom, Routledge, London, New York, 2004. 230 pages, Price [UK pound]22.99 (paperback), ISBN 0-415-32954X pp. 1248-1250

Christian DeBresson

Book review pp. 1250-1252

Michael Hales

Volume 33, issue 6-7, 2004

Innovations in the food industry in Germany pp. 845-878

Klaus Menrad

Moving skills from hands to heads: does importing technology affect export performance in textiles? pp. 879-895

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Marzio Galeotti and Andrea Mattozzi

From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory pp. 897-920

Frank W. Geels

Rethinking the public sector: idiosyncrasies of biotechnology commercialization as motors of national R&D reform in Germany and Japan pp. 921-938

Mark Lehrer and Kazuhiro Asakawa

Improving patent valuations for management purposes--validating new indicators by analyzing application rationales pp. 939-957

Markus Reitzig

Adoption of green chemistry: an analysis based on US patents pp. 959-974

T. J. Nameroff, R. J. Garant and M. B. Albert

The evolution of university-industry-government relationships during transition pp. 975-995

Annamaria Inzelt

Lead markets: country-specific drivers of the global diffusion of innovations pp. 997-1018

Marian Beise

The influence of institutional factors on the technology acquisition performance of high-tech firms: survey results from Germany and Japan pp. 1019-1039

Martin Hemmert

Understanding company R&D strategies in agro-biotechnology: trajectories and blind spots pp. 1041-1057

Joanna Chataway, Joyce Tait and David Wield

Learning from Science and Technology Policy Evaluation: Experiences from the US and Europe: Philip Shapira, Stefan Kuhlmann (Eds.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003, 393 pp., Price: [UK pound]75.00, ISBN 1-84064-875-9 pp. 1059-1060

Jordi Molas-Gallart

Competitiveness, FDI and Technological Activity in East Asia: Sanjaya Lall, Shujiro Urata (Eds.), 2003, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK (in association with The World Bank), 432 pp., price [UK pound]79.95, ISBN 1 84376 1144 pp. 1060-1062

John Mathews

Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation: John Cantwell and Simona Iammarino, Routledge, London, 2003, 199 pages, ISBN 0-415-27140-1, Price [UK pound]65.00 pp. 1062-1063

Rajneesh Narula

Volume 33, issue 5, 2004

The New Economy: what the concept owes to the OECD pp. 679-690

Benoit Godin

The role of social embeddedness in professorial entrepreneurship: a comparison of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and Stanford pp. 691-707

Martin Kenney and W. Richard Goe

Is the commercialisation of scientific research affecting the production of public knowledge?: Global trends in the output of corporate research articles pp. 709-733

Robert J. W. Tijssen

Sources of productivity growth in the Spanish pharmaceutical industry (1994-2000) pp. 735-745

Eduardo González Fidalgo and Fernando Gascon

Tokamaks and turbulence: research ensembles, policy and technoscientific work pp. 747-767

Edward J. Hackett, David Conz, John Parker, Jonathon Bashford and Susan DeLay

The co-evolution of social and physical infrastructure for biotechnology innovation in Turku, Finland pp. 769-785

Maria Hoyssa, Henrik Bruun and Janne Hukkinen

The birth of a new industry: entry by start-ups and the drivers of firm growth: The case of encryption software pp. 787-806

Marco Giarratana

Overseas R&D, knowledge sourcing, and patenting: an empirical study of Japanese R&D investment in the US pp. 807-828

Tomoko Iwasa and Hiroyuki Odagiri

Linking operations strategy and product innovation: an empirical study of Spanish ceramic tile producers pp. 829-839

Joaquin Alegre, Rafael Lapiedra-Alcami and Ricardo Chiva-Gomez

The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change: Cristiano Antonelli, Routledge, London, 2003, 189 pp., [UK pound]45.00, ISBN 0-415-29654-4 pp. 841-842

Simona Iammarino

Innovation Networks: Theory and Practice: Andreas Pyka, Gunter Kuppers (Eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002, 223 pp., [UK pound]55.00, ISBN: 1-843760401 pp. 842-844

Christian DeBresson

Volume 33, issue 4, 2004

Editor's introduction: building and deploying scientific and technical human capital pp. 565-568

Barry Bozeman and Vincent Mangematin

National science training policy and early scientific careers in France and the United States pp. 569-581

Monica Gaughan and Stéphane Robin

Biotechnology entrepreneurial scientists and their collaborations pp. 583-597

Amalya L. Oliver

Scientists' collaboration strategies: implications for scientific and technical human capital pp. 599-616

Barry Bozeman and Elizabeth Corley

Panic and panacea: brain drain and science and technology human capital policy pp. 617-630

Sally Davenport

Turning scientific and technological human capital into economic capital: the experience of biotech start-ups in France pp. 631-642

Catherine D. F. Corolleur, M. Carrere and Vincent Mangematin

The role of academic inventors in entrepreneurial firms: sharing the laboratory life pp. 643-659

Fiona Murray

Human capital heterogeneity, collaborative relationships, and publication patterns in a multidisciplinary scientific alliance: a comparative case study of two scientific teams pp. 661-678

Joseph F. Porac, James B. Wade, Harald M. Fischer, Joyce Brown, Alaina Kanfer and Geoffrey Bowker

Volume 33, issue 3, 2004

R&D co-operation and innovation a microeconometric study on French firms pp. 365-384

S. Negassi

Leveraging technological externalities in complex technologies: Microsoft's exploitation of standards in the browser wars pp. 385-394

Paul Windrum

The reconfiguration of National Innovation Systems--the example of German biotechnology pp. 395-408

Robert Kaiser and Heiko Prange

Does innovativeness matter for international competitiveness in developing countries?: The case of Turkish manufacturing industries pp. 409-424

Emre Ozcelik and Erol Taymaz

Combining entrepreneurial and scientific performance in academia: towards a compounded and reciprocal Matthew-effect? pp. 425-441

Bart Van Looy, Liana Ranga, Julie Callaert, Koenraad Debackere and Edwin Zimmermann

Institutionalized biases in the award of research grants: a preliminary analysis revisiting the principle of accumulative advantage pp. 443-454

Neil Viner, Philip Powell and Rod Green

The market economy, and the scientific commons pp. 455-471

Richard Nelson

How much difference is there between industrial district firms? A net value creation approach pp. 473-486

F. Xavier Molina-Morales and M. Teresa Martinez-Fernandez

An ex ante evaluation framework for the regional benefits of publicly supported R&D projects pp. 487-509

Stephen Roper, Nola Hewitt-Dundas and James H. Love

Historical evolution of technological diversification pp. 511-529

John Cantwell and Giovanna Vertova

Technological diversity of persistent innovators in Japan: Two case studies of large Japanese firms pp. 531-549

Jun Suzuki and Fumio Kodama

Identifying innovation in surveys of services: a Schumpeterian perspective pp. 551-562

Ina Drejer

National Competitiveness and Economic Growth: The Changing Determinants of Economic Performance in the World Economy: Tino J. Hamalainen, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2003, 380 pp., [UK pound]79.95, ISBN 1-84064-454-0 pp. 563-563

Eberhard Jochem

Volume 33, issue 2, 2004

Royalties, evolving patent rights, and the value of innovation pp. 179-191

Edward F. Sherry and David Teece

Innovation capabilities of European nations: Cross-national analyses of patents and sales of product innovations pp. 193-207

Jan Faber and Anneloes Barbara Hesen

R&D cooperation and innovation activities of firms--evidence for the German manufacturing industry pp. 209-223

Wolfgang Becker and Jurgen Dietz

Research parks and the location of industrial research laboratories: an analysis of the effectiveness of a policy intervention pp. 225-243

Stephen J. Appold

Innovation, regional knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation pp. 245-255

Michael Fritsch and Grit Franke

Secrets to shield or share? new dilemmas for military R&D policy in the digital age pp. 257-269

Jay Stowsky

Battles for technological dominance: an integrative framework pp. 271-286

Fernando F. Suarez

The relationship between research and innovation in the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries (1981-1997) pp. 287-321

Kwanghui Lim

Identification of innovating firms through technological innovation indicators: an application to the Spanish ceramic tile industry pp. 323-336

M. L. Flor and M. J. Oltra

Taiwanese IT firms' offshore R&D in China and the connection with the global innovation network pp. 337-349

Shin-Horng Chen

The nature of lead users and measurement of leading edge status pp. 351-362

Pamela D. Morrison, John H. Roberts and David F. Midgley

Erratum to "Citations, family size, opposition and the value of patent rights" [Research Policy 32 (2003) 1343-1363] pp. 363-364

Dietmar Harhoff, Frederic M. Scherer and Katrin Vopel

Volume 33, issue 1, 2004

Plans are nothing, changing plans is everything: the impact of changes on project success pp. 1-15

Dov Dvir and Thomas Lechler

Determining factors in the success of R&D cooperative agreements between firms and research organizations pp. 17-40

Eva M. Mora-Valentin, Angeles Montoro-Sanchez and Luis A. Guerras-Martin

The valuation of a NDA using a 6-fold compound option pp. 41-51

Danny Cassimon, Peter-Jan Engelen, L. Thomassen and Martine van Wouwe

External knowledge sourcing in different national settings: a comparison of electronics establishments in Britain and France pp. 53-72

Geoff Mason, Jean-Paul Beltramo and Jean-Jacques Paul

Assessing end-use relevance of public sector research organisations pp. 73-87

Catherine Lyall, Ann Bruce, John Firn, Marion Firn and Joyce Tait

Managing competences in entrepreneurial technology firms: a comparative institutional analysis of Germany, Sweden and the UK pp. 89-106

Steven Casper and Richard Whitley

A framework of industrial knowledge spillovers in big-science centers pp. 107-126

Erkko Autio, Ari-Pekka Hameri and Olli Vuola

Networks of inventors and the role of academia: an exploration of Italian patent data pp. 127-145

Margherita Balconi, Stefano Breschi and Francesco Lissoni

Critical junctures in the development of university high-tech spinout companies pp. 147-175

Ajay Vohora, Mike Wright and Andy Lockett

MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science: Henry Etzkowitz, Routledge Press, London, UK, 2002, pp. 162 + index, Price [UK pound]45.00, ISBN: 041528516X pp. 177-178

Arvids A. Ziedonis