Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 50, issue 10, 2021

Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge

Giuseppe Soda, Akbar Zaheer, Xiaoming Sun and Wentian Cui

War and Transition

Mary Kaldor

Resolving information asymmetries in financing new product development: The case of reward-based crowdfunding

Ahmed Sewaid, Miguel Garcia-Cestona and Florina Silaghi

Sector heterogeneity and dynamic effects of innovation subsidies: Evidence from Horizon 2020

Klaas Mulier and Ilia Samarin

Spin doctors vs the spawn of capitalism: Who founds university and corporate startups?

Alex Coad, Ulrich Kaiser and Johan Kuhn

The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes

Markus C. Becker, Francesco Rullani and Francesco Zirpoli

Asymmetries between partners and the success of university-industry research collaborations

Vivianna Fang He, Georg von Krogh, Charlotta Sirén and Thomas Gersdorf

Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO

Charles A.W. deGrazia, Nicholas A. Pairolero and Mike H.M. Teodorescu

Technology stocks: A study on the characteristics that help transfer public research to industry

Xiangpeng Lian, Ying Guo and Jun Su

Pens and purse strings: Exploring the opportunities and limits to funding actionable sustainability science

James C. Arnott

Global human burden and official development assistance in health R&D: The role of medical absorptive capacity

Christopher Williams

The Impact of False Investigators on Grant Funding

Eric A. Fong and Allen W. Wilhite

How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014

Marcelo Marques

Volume 50, issue 9, 2021

Blinded by the sun: The role of prosumers as niche actors in incumbent firms’ adoption of solar power during sustainability transitions

Carmen Weigelt, Shaohua Lu and J. Cameron Verhaal

The politics of research and innovation: Understanding instrument choices in complex governance environments – the case of France and Italy

Claudia Acciai

Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany

Michael Kriechbaum, Alfred Posch and Angelika Hauswiesner

Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions

Nicholas Stern and Anna Valero

Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description

Anuraag Singh, Giorgio Triulzi and Christopher L. Magee

Can antitrust law enforcement spur innovation? Antitrust regulation of patent consolidation and its impact on follow-on innovations

Seokbeom Kwon and Alan C. Marco

Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences

Robin Mansell

A resourcification manifesto: Understanding the social process of resources becoming resources

Johan Hultman, Hervé Corvellec, Anne Jerneck, Susanne Arvidsson, Johan Ekroos, Clara Gustafsson, Fay Lundh Nilsson and Niklas Wahlberg

Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time

Malte Doehne and Katja Rost

Facilitators and inhibitors for integrating expertise diversity in innovation teams: The case of plasmid exchange in molecular biology

Michael A. Zaggl and Judith Pottbäcker

Efficiency of European universities: A comparison of peers

Lars Herberholz and Berthold U. Wigger

The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU

José-Luis Hervás-Oliver, Mario Davide Parrilli, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Francisca Sempere-Ripoll

Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Augusto Rocha, Ross Brown and Suzanne Mawson

How do new use environments influence a technology's knowledge trajectory? A patent citation network analysis of lithium-ion battery technology

Abhishek Malhotra, Huiting Zhang, Martin Beuse and Tobias Schmidt

Rich on paper? Chinese firms’ academic publications, patents, and market value

David H. Hsu, Po-Hsuan Hsu and Qifeng Zhao

Getting on board with new ideas: An analysis of idea commitments on a crowdsourcing platform

Dirk Deichmann, Thomas Gillier and Marco Tonellato

Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity

Andrea Martínez-Noya and Esteban García-Canal

Chris Freeman's concept of evolution–A critique of the misuse of biological analogies in macroeconomics

Francisco Louçã and Ricardo Cabral

Obstacles affecting innovation in small and medium enterprises: Quantitative analysis of the Argentinean manufacturing sector

Valeria Arza and Emanuel López

Cross-border effects of R&D tax incentives

Bodo Knoll, Nadine Riedel, Thomas Schwab, Maximilian Todtenhaupt and Johannes Voget

Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers

Qiang Wu, Wassim Dbouk, Iftekhar Hasan, Nada Kobeissi and Li Zheng

Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models

René Bohnsack, Hannes Kurtz and André Hanelt

Governance of data sharing: A law & economics proposal

Inge Graef and Jens Prüfer

Long-term effects from early exposure to research: Evidence from the NIH “Yellow Berets”

Pierre Azoulay, Wesley H. Greenblatt and Misty Heggeness

Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage

Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein

Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities

Austin Arnold, Anne Cafer, John Green, Seena Haines, Georgianna Mann and Meagen Rosenthal

Putting the watering can away –Towards a targeted (problem-oriented) cluster policy framework

Nils Grashof

Exploring novel technologies through board interlocks: Spillover vs. broad exploration

Mingxiang Li

A model of the editorial process in academic journals

Onur Bayar and Thomas Chemmanur

Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions

Artur Santoalha, Davide Consoli and Fulvio Castellacci

Which innovation regime for public service innovation networks for social innovation (PSINSIs)? Lessons from a European cases database

Benoît Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal and Faïz Gallouj

Volume 50, issue 8, 2021

The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform

Jörg Claussen and Maria A. Halbinger

Behavioral innovation: Pilot study and new big data analysis approach in household sector user innovation

Christiana D. von Hippel and Andrew B. Cann

Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web

Eric von Hippel and Sandro Kaulartz

Need-solution pair recognition by household sector individuals: Evidence, and a cognitive mechanism explanation

Ruth M. Stock-Homburg, Shannon L.M. Heald, Christian Holthaus, Nils Lennart Gillert and Eric von Hippel

The influence of information depth and information breadth on brokers’ idea newness in online maker communities

Christian Resch and Alexander Kock

Pricing decisions of consumer innovators

Tobias Ebbing and Christian Lüthje

Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games

Patrick Pollok, André Amft, Kathleen Diener, Dirk Lüttgens and Frank T. Piller

Exploring collective consumer innovation in health care: Cases and formal modeling

Erik Lakomaa and Tino Sanandaji

Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion

Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Shiko M. Ben-Menahem, Nikolaus Franke, Johann Füller and Georg von Krogh

Reprint of: Social movements and free innovation

Lars Bo Jeppesen

Volume 50, issue 7, 2021

Routine-Biased technical change: Individual-Level evidence from a plant closure

Maarten Goos, Emilie Rademakers and Ronja Röttger

The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms

James Harrigan, Ariell Reshef and Farid Toubal

Returns to ICT skills

Oliver Falck, Alexandra Heimisch-Roecker and Simon Wiederhold

Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data

Valeria Cirillo, Rinaldo Evangelista, Dario Guarascio and Matteo Sostero

Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics

Giacomo Domini, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella and Tania Treibich

The importance of STEM: High school knowledge, skills and occupations in an era of growing inequality

Sandra Black, Chandra Muller, Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Ziwei He, Koit Hung and John Robert Warren

Entrepreneurship in Cities

Sam Tavassoli, Martin Obschonka and David B. Audretsch

Effective innovation via better management of firms: The role of leverage in times of crisis

Ilayda Nemlioglu and Sushanta Mallick

The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources

Sotaro Shibayama and Cornelia Lawson

Crowdfunding as Donations to Entrepreneurial Firms

Kevin Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein and Francesco Rullani

Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective

Neil Foster-McGregor, Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen

Inbound Open Innovation and Innovation Performance: A Robustness Study

Bernd Ebersberger, Fabrice Galia, Keld Laursen and Ammon Salter

Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)

F.W. Geels, S Sareen, A. Hook and B.K. Sovacool

Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity

Christian Haddad and Maximilian Benner

Exploring docility: A behavioral approach to interventions in business incubation

Sujith Nair and Tomas Blomquist

Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development

José Natera and Fulvio Castellacci

Do public R&D subsidies produce jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR program

Lauren Lanahan, Amol M. Joshi and Evan Johnson

Industrial policy intensity, technological change, and productivity growth: Evidence from China

Jie Mao, Shiping Tang, Zhiguo Xiao and Qiang Zhi

Suborning science for profit: Monsanto, glyphosate, and private science research misconduct

Leland Glenna and Analena Bruce

Volume 50, issue 6, 2021

The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme

Federico Munari and Laura Toschi

R&D priority-setting for global catastrophic risks: The case of the NASA planetary defense mission

Scott Janzwood

Why do people use mobile payment technologies and why would they continue? An examination and implications from India

Abhipsa Pal, Tejaswini Herath, Rahul De' and H. Raghav Rao

Advanced manufacturing technology adoption and innovation: A systematic literature review on barriers, enablers, and innovation types

Aldo Stornelli, Sercan Ozcan and Christopher Simms

What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics

Michael Rose and Co-Pierre Georg

Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison

Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich

Social movements and free innovation

Lars Bo Jeppesen

Does greater diversification increase individual productivity? The moderating effect of attention allocation

Mustapha Belkhouja, Senda Fattoum and Hyungseok Yoon

Theory and empirics of capability accumulation: Implications for macroeconomic modeling

Matthias Aistleitner, Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch and Anna Hornykewycz

Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement

Conor O'Kane, Jarrod Haar, Vincent Mangematin, Urs Daellenbach and Sally Davenport

Do firms profit from patent litigation? The contingent roles of diversification and intangible assets

Mario Kafouros, Murod Aliyev and Sorin M.S. Krammer

Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework

Ivan De Noni, Andrea Ganzaroli and Luciano Pilotti

A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App

Benjamin Lucas, R. Elena Francu, James Goulding, John Harvey, Georgiana Nica-Avram and Bertrand Perrat

On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?

Paolo Roma, Maria Vasi and Christos Kolympiris

The role of Proof-of-Concept programs in facilitating the commercialization of research-based inventions

Daniele Battaglia, Emilio Paolucci and Elisa Ughetto

Volume 50, issue 5, 2021

Design and environmental technologies: Does ‘green-matching’ actually help?

Claudia Ghisetti, Sandro Montresor and Antonio Vezzani

Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain

María García-Vega, Richard Kneller and Joel Stiebale

Contextual status effects: The performance effects of host-country network status and regulatory institutions in cross-border venture capital

Yu Liu and Markku Maula

Matching patents to compustat firms, 1980–2015: Dynamic reassignment, name changes, and ownership structures

Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon and Lia Sheer

How the organizational design of R&D units affects individual search intensity – A network study

Julia Brennecke, Wolfgang Sofka, Peng Wang and Olaf N. Rank

Fast success and slow failure: The process speed of dispersed research teams

Marie Louise Mors and David M. Waguespack

Exploring heterogeneous returns to collaborative R&D: A marginal treatment effects perspective

Yiannis E. Spanos

Training across the academy: The impact of R&D funding on graduate students

Alexandra Graddy-Reed, Lauren Lanahan and Jesse D'Agostino

The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science

E. Richard Gold

Does participation in knowledge networks facilitate market access in global innovation systems? The case of offshore wind

Maria Tsouri, Jens Hanson and Håkon Endresen Normann

Volume 50, issue 4, 2021

Appraising research policy instrument mixes: a multicriteria mapping study in six European countries of diagnostic innovation to manage antimicrobial resistance

Josie Coburn, Frederique Bone, Michael M. Hopkins, Andy Stirling, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, Stathis Arapostathis and Martin J. Llewelyn

Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework

M.S. Reed, M. Ferré, J. Martin-Ortega, R. Blanche, R. Lawford-Rolfe, M. Dallimer and J. Holden

Connecting others: Does a tertius iungens orientation shape the relationship between research networks and innovation?

Oscar Llopis, Pablo D'Este and Adrián A. Díaz-Faes

Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation

Dr. Anne Rainville

Evolution of the Indian LPG industry: Exploring conditions for public sector business model innovation

Renu Agarwal, Neeraj Mittal, Eric Patterson and Michela Giorcelli

Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions

Curdin Pfister, Miriam Koomen, Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner

Evaluating proposals in innovation contests: Exploring negative scoring spillovers in the absence of a strict evaluation sequence

J.Paul Elhorst and Dries Faems

Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction

Giovanni Dosi, Mariacristina Piva, Maria Enrica Virgillito and Marco Vivarelli

Unravelling supplier-laboratory knowledge spillovers: Evidence from Toyota's central R&D laboratory and subsidiary R&D centers

Antony Potter and Antony Paulraj

Transfer scouts: from intermediation to co-constructors of new knowledge and technologies in Germany

Anika Noack and Heike Jacobsen

Incentives, competition, and inequality in markets for creative production

Stefano Balietti and Christoph Riedl

A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation

Harm Alhusen, Tatjana Bennat, Kilian Bizer, Uwe Cantner, Elaine Horstmann, Martin Kalthaus, Till Proeger, Rolf Sternberg and Stefan Töpfer

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Kyle Higham, Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Adam Jaffe

How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward

Linus Dahlander, David M. Gann and Martin W. Wallin

Isomorphic difference: Familiarity and distinctiveness in national research and innovation policies

Alan Irwin, Jane Bjørn Vedel and Signe Vikkelsø

Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs

Yuchen Gao, Yimei Hu, Xielin Liu and Huanren Zhang

Volume 50, issue 3, 2021

Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies

Dhruba Borah, Khaleel Malik and Silvia Massini

Unjustified trust beliefs: Trust conflation on sharing economy platforms

Mareike Möhlmann

The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis

Cornelia Lawson, Aldo Geuna and Ugo Finardi

Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems

Kristiaan P.W. Kok, Anne M.C. Loeber and John Grin

A dynamic multi-sector analysis of technological catch-up: The impact of technology cycle times, knowledge base complexity and variety

Alessandro Rosiello and Ali Maleki

Industry-university knowledge flows and product innovation: How do knowledge stocks and crisis matter?

Yannis Caloghirou, Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexandra Kontolaimou, Efthymia Korra and Aggelos Tsakanikas

Volume 50, issue 2, 2021

Natural language processing to identify the creation and impact of new technologies in patent text: Code, data, and new measures

Sam Arts, Jianan Hou and Juan Carlos Gomez

Hand in hand to Nowhereland? How the resource dependence of research institutes influences their co-evolution with industry

Joern Hoppmann

Depoliticizing the European immigration debate: How to employ public sector innovation to integrate migrants

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Roberto Vivona

Directed innovation policies and the supermultiplier: An empirical assessment of mission-oriented policies in the US economy

Matteo Deleidi and Mariana Mazzucato

Bridging the gap between invention and innovation: Increasing success rates in publicly and industry-funded clinical trials

Carolin Haeussler and Anne Assmus

The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms

Renaud Foucart and Qian Li

Aftermath of a tragedy: A star's death and coauthors’ subsequent productivity

Rajat Khanna

Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis of coal tar-based innovations

Pierpaolo Andriani and Renata Kaminska

Volume 50, issue 1, 2021

Do synthesis centers synthesize? A semantic analysis of topical diversity in research

Edward J. Hackett, Erin Leahey, John N. Parker, Ismael Rafols, Stephanie E. Hampton, Ugo Corte, Diego Chavarro, John M. Drake, Bart Penders, Laura Sheble, Niki Vermeulen and Todd J. Vision

Benchmarking U.S. university patent value and commercialization efforts: A new approach

David H. Hsu, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Tong Zhou and Arvids A. Ziedonis

The authenticity premium: Balancing conformity and innovation in high technology industries

Helena Buhr, Russell J. Funk and Jason Owen-Smith

Disentangling the effects of business groups in the innovation-export relationship

Lichao Wu, Yingqi Wei and Chengang Wang

Neither at the cutting edge nor in a patent-friendly environment: Appropriating the returns from innovation in a less developed economy

Henrique M. Barros

Does the merger of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China

Yankun Kang and Ruiming Liu

Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019

Markus Perkmann, Rossella Salandra, Valentina Tartari, Maureen McKelvey and Alan Hughes

Destabilization and consolidation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and validating the dual characteristics of technology

Jiyao Chen, Diana Shao and Shaokun Fan

Can we estimate a monetary value of scientific publications?

Sandra Rousseau, Giuseppe Catalano and Cinzia Daraio

A man is known by the company he keeps?: A structural relationship between backward citation and forward citation of patents

Wonchang Hur and Junbyoung Oh

How firms undertake organizational changes to shift to more-exploratory strategies: A process perspective

Jane Bjørn Vedel and Olga Kokshagina

Unpacking the effects of adverse regulatory events: Evidence from pharmaceutical relabeling

Matthew Higgins, Xin Yan and Chirantan Chatterjee

Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility

Luca Verginer and Massimo Riccaboni

R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in india

Olena Ivus, Manu Jose and Ruchi Sharma

Should there be lower taxes on patent income?

Fabian Gaessler, Bronwyn Hall and Dietmar Harhoff

Directing scientists away from potentially biased publications: the role of systematic reviews in health care

Rossella Salandra, Paola Criscuolo and Ammon Salter

Public funding of innovation: Exploring applications and allocations of the European SME Instrument

Andrea Mina, Alberto Di Minin, Irene Martelli, Giuseppina Testa and Pietro Santoleri

Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation

Richard Owen, Mario Pansera, Phil Macnaghten and Sally Randles

Does TTO capability matter in commercializing university technology? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Korea

Kyootai Lee and Hyun Ju Jung

What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge

Massimo G. Colombo, Nicolai J. Foss, Jacob Lyngsie and Cristina Rossi Lamastra

It's about time: The timing of entrepreneurial experience and the career dynamics of university graduates

Adrian L. Merida and Vera Rocha

Integrating Home and Work: How the Work Environment Enhances Household-Sector Innovations

Carmen Sabrina Lukoschek and Ruth Maria Stock-Homburg

Imported intermediates, technological capabilities and exports: Evidence from Brazilian firm-level data

Caio Torres Mazzi and Neil Foster-McGregor

Differential moderating effects of strategic and operational reconfiguration on the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance

Oghogho Destina Ovuakporie, Kishore Gopalakrishna Pillai, Chengang Wang and Yingqi Wei

Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products

Javier Cenamor and Johan Frishammar