Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 49, issue S, 2020

Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues

Andrea Laplane and Mariana Mazzucato

Volume 49, issue 10, 2020

To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?

Alessandra Colombelli, Luca Grilli, Tommaso Minola and Boris Mrkajic

Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives

David Audretsch, Alessandra Colombelli, Luca Grilli, Tommaso Minola and Einar Rasmussen

Liquidity events and VC-backed academic spin-offs: The role of search alliances

Johan Bruneel, Bart Clarysse, Annelies Bobelyn and Mike Wright

The effectiveness of university regulations to foster science-based entrepreneurship

Riccardo Fini, Rosa Grimaldi and Azzurra Meoli

Unpacking liabilities of newness and smallness in innovative start-ups: Investigating the differences in innovation performance between new and older small firms

Elena M. Gimenez-Fernandez, Francesco Sandulli and Marcel Bogers

Related and unrelated industry variety and the internationalization of start-ups

Lucia Naldi, Giuseppe Criaco and Pankaj C. Patel

Bridging the equity gap for young innovative companies: The design of effective government venture capital fund programs

Yan Alperovych, Alexander Groh and Anita Quas

Even winners need to learn: How government entrepreneurship programs can support innovative ventures

Mickaël Buffart, Grégoire Croidieu, Phillip H. Kim and Ray Bowman

Catching up or lagging behind? The long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Martin Weissenberger

The strategic responses of start-ups to regulatory constraints in the nascent drone market

Kristina Vaarst Andersen, Marianne Harbo Frederiksen, Mette Præst Knudsen and Anders Dahl Krabbe

Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative?

Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Peter van der Zwan and Roy Thurik

Different founders, different venture outcomes: A comparative analysis of academic and non-academic startups

Maria P. Roche, Annamaria Conti and Frank Rothaermel

Volume 49, issue 9, 2020

Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?

Thomas A. Fackler, Yvonne Giesing and Nadzeya Laurentsyeva

The impact of permanent residency delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and why

Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie

Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?

Ernest Miguelez and Claudia Noumedem Temgoua

Foreign-Born graduates and innovation: Evidence from an Australian skilled visa program✰,✰✰,★,★★

Daniel Crown, Alessandra Faggian and Jonathan Corcoran

Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation

Alba Marino, Ram Mudambi, Alessandra Perri and Vittoria G. Scalera

Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity

Keld Laursen, Bart Leten, Ngoc Han Nguyen and Mark Vancauteren

Migration, innovation and technological diversion: German patenting after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Edoardo Ferrucci

STEM migration, research, and innovation

Stefano Breschi, Cornelia Lawson, Francesco Lissoni, Andrea Morrison and Ammon Salter

Volume 49, issue 8, 2020

Evolution and structure of technological systems - An innovation output network

Josef Taalbi

Work organization and job polarization

Jacob Rubæk Holm, Edward Lorenz and Peter Nielsen

Measuring eco-innovation dimensions: The role of environmental corporate culture and commercial orientation

Eva M. García-Granero, Laura Piedra-Muñoz and Emilio Galdeano-Gómez

Making routines the same: Crafting similarity and singularity in routines transfer

Luciana D'Adderio and Neil Pollock

The Role Of Extramural R&D And Scientific Knowledge In Creating High Novelty Innovations: An Examination Of Manufacturing And Service Firms In Spain

Jaime Gómez, Idana Salazar and Pilar Vargas

Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation

Andrea Ascani, Luca Bettarelli, Laura Resmini and Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Getting ahead in the race for a cure: How nonprofits are financing biomedical R&D

Alexandra Graddy-Reed

The supply chain economy: A new industry categorization for understanding innovation in services

Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills

Anchor entrepreneurship and industry catalysis: The rise of the Italian Biomedical Valley

Simone Ferriani, Mark H. Lazerson and Gianni Lorenzoni

Entrepreneurial use of context for technological system creation and expansion: The case of blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trading

Kristina Hojckova, Helene Ahlborg, Gregory M. Morrison and Björn Sandén

Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions

Mario Davide Parrilli, Merima Balavac and Dragana Radicic

Innovation efficiency in European high-tech industries: Evidence from a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach

Rouven E. Haschka and Helmut Herwartz

Do expert surveys underrate lower-income countries?

R. Urbatsch

Money to move: The effect on researchers of an international mobility grant

Stefano H. Baruffaldi, Marianna Marino and Fabiana Visentin

Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions

Bonno Pel, Alex Haxeltine, Flor Avelino, Adina Dumitru, Rene Kemp, Tom Bauler, Iris Kunze, Jens Dorland, Julia Wittmayer and Michael Søgaard Jørgensen

Are R&D-Intensive firms also corporate social responsibility specialists? A multicountry study

Limin Fu, Dirk Boehe and Marc Orlitzky

Higher education policy: Why hope for quality when rewarding quantity?

Alice Civera, Erik Lehmann, Stefano Paleari and Sarah A.E. Stockinger

Detecting academic fraud using Benford law: The case of Professor James Hunton

Joanne Horton, Dhanya Krishna Kumar and Anthony Wood

Volume 49, issue 7, 2020

Firm-level effects of staged investments in innovation: The moderating role of resource availability

Petra Andries and Paul Hünermund

The Effects of Federal Research and Development Subsidies on Firm Commercialization Behavior

Daniel Smith

Quantifying sunk costs and learning effects in R&D persistence

Juan A. Mañez and J.H. Love

Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability

Simone Strambach and Gesa Pflitsch

The impact of including standards-related documentation in patent prior art: Evidence from an EPO policy change

Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli and Federico Tamagni

How important are local knowledge spillovers of public R&D and what drives them?

Leonie Koch and Martin Simmler

Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances

Holmer Kok, Dries Faems and Pedro de Faria

The Importance of Tacit Knowledge: Dynamic Inventor Activity in the Commercialization Phase

Per Botolf Maurseth and Roger Svensson

Mapping general purpose technologies with patent data

Sergio Petralia

Complementary-in use appropriability in innovative service firms: An empirical study in Taiwan

Min-Nan Chen and Chia-Hung Wu

From creative destruction to creative appropriation: A comprehensive framework

Jack Linzhou Xing and Naubahar Sharif

New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity

Magda Fontana, Martina Iori, Fabio Montobbio and Roberta Sinatra

When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data

Sergei Hoxha and Alfred Kleinknecht

Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis

Øivind Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Diana-Cristina Iancu

Technological impact of biomedical research: The role of basicness and novelty

Qing Ke

Six policy intervention points for sustainability transitions: A conceptual framework and a systematic literature review

Laur Kanger, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Martin Noorkõiv

Related variety as a driver of regional innovation and entrepreneurship: A moderated and mediated model with non-linear effects

Thomas Ejdemo and Daniel Örtqvist

National-level innovation in Africa

Gayle Allard and Christopher Williams

The innovation impacts of public procurement offices: The case of healthcare procurement

Fiona A. Miller and Pascale Lehoux

The Oscar goes to…: High-tech firms’ acquisitions in response to rivals’ technology breakthroughs

I-Ju Chen, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Micah S. Officer and Yanzhi Wang

Volume 49, issue 6, 2020

Does separation hurt? The impact of premature termination of R&D alliances on knowledge acquisition and innovation

Jan Hohberger, Heidi Kruger and Paul Almeida

Robotic Bureaucracy and Administrative Burden: What Are the Effects of Universities’ Computer Automated Research Grants Management Systems?

Barry Bozeman, Jan Youtie and Jiwon Jung

Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?

Caroline Veldhuizen

Integrating finance into the multi-level perspective: Technology niche-finance regime interactions and financial policy interventions

Anna Geddes and Tobias S. Schmidt

Work process-related lead userness as an antecedent of innovative behavior and user innovation in organizations

Chia-huei Wu, Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Christina Raasch and Sabrine Poldervaart

Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity

Carolin Haeussler and Henry Sauermann

Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups

Theodor F. Cojoianu, Gordon L. Clark, Andreas G.F. Hoepner, Paolo Veneri and Dariusz Wójcik

DYNAMIC FIT IN AN ERA OF FERMENT: PRODUCT DESIGN REALIGNMENT AND THE SURVIVAL-ENHANCING ROLE OF ALLIANCES AND ACQUISITIONS

Tuhin Chaturvedi and John E. Prescott

Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry

Massimo G. Colombo and Evila Piva

The role of interactive learning in innovation capability building in multinational subsidiaries: A micro-level study of biotechnology in Brazil

Paulo N. Figueiredo, Henrik Larsen and Ulrich E. Hansen

Volume 49, issue 5, 2020

The journal quality perception gap

Cormac Bryce, Michael Dowling and Brian Lucey

Analogical reasoning, cognition, and the response to technological change: Lessons from mobile communication

Riccardo Vecchiato

Counterfeiting in digital technologies: An empirical analysis of the economic performance and innovative activities of affected companies

Vincenzo Butticè, Federico Caviggioli, Chiara Franzoni, Giuseppe Scellato, Piotr Stryszowski and Nikolaus Thumm

Firm ownership, quality of government and innovation: Evidence from patenting in the telecommunication industry

Stefano Clo, Massimo Florio and Francesco Rentocchini

The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation

Susana Borrás and Jakob Edler

Citizen science and sustainability transitions

Henry Sauermann, Katrin Vohland, Vyron Antoniou, Bálint Balázs, Claudia Göbel, Kostas Karatzas, Peter Mooney, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson and Silvia Winter

Paludiculture as a critical sustainability innovation mission

Rafael Ziegler

Regional gatekeepers, inventor networks and inventive performance: Spatial and organizational channels

Julie Le Gallo and Anne Plunket

Public funding and the ascent of Chinese science: Evidence from the National Natural Science Foundation of China

Albert G.Z. Hu

Industrial diversity in building units and factors associated with diversity: A case study of the Seoul Metropolitan Area

Jeong-Il Park

Volume 49, issue 4, 2020

State governments as financiers of technology startups: Evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program

Bo Zhao and Rosemarie Ziedonis

Patents and knowledge diffusion: The effect of early disclosure

Stefano H. Baruffaldi and Markus Simeth

Trademark value indicators: Evidence from the trademark protection lifecycle in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry

Shukhrat Nasirov

Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?

Russell Craig, Adam Cox, Dennis Tourish and Alistair Thorpe

Household sector innovation in China: Impacts of income and motivation

Jin Chen, Yu-Shan Su, Jeroen P.J. de Jong and Eric von Hippel

In-text patent citations: A user's guide

Kevin Bryan, Yasin Ozcan and Bhaven Sampat

The unlikely encounter: Is ethnic diversity in start-ups associated with innovation?

Udo Brixy, Stephan Brunow and Anna D'Ambrosio

The Matthew effect of a journal's ranking

Kyriakos Drivas and Dimitris Kremmydas

National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective

David S. Lucas and Christopher Boudreaux

Administrative discretion in scientific funding: Evidence from a prestigious postdoctoral training program✰

Donna Ginther and Misty Heggeness

Unpacking transnational industry legitimacy dynamics, windows of opportunity, and latecomers’ catch-up in complex product systems

Kiho Kwak and Hyungseok Yoon

Feline followers and “umbrella carriers”: Department Chairs’ influence on faculty job satisfaction and quit intentions

Agnes Bäker and Amanda H. Goodall

Volume 49, issue 3, 2020

Organizational innovation efforts in multiple emerging market categories: Exploring the interplay of opportunity, ambiguity, and socio-cognitive contexts

Jade Y. Lo, Rajiv Nag, Lei Xu and Shanti D. Agung

Measuring innovation using firm-level surveys: Evidence from developing countries✰

Xavier Cirera and Silvia Muzi

When do firms get ideas from hiring PhDs?

Guido Buenstorf and Dominik P. Heinisch

The disciplinary effect of post-grant review – Causal evidence from European patent opposition

Markus Nagler and Stefan Sorg

Medical research versus disease burden in Africa

Hugo Confraria and Lili Wang

The development of complex and controversial innovations. Genetically modified mosquitoes for malaria eradication

Valentina Cisnetto and James Barlow

Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012

Sari Pekkala Kerr and William Kerr

The antecedents of green technologies: The role of team-level recombinant capabilities

Gianluca Orsatti, Francesco Quatraro and Michele Pezzoni

A shot in the dark? Policy influence on cluster networks

Holger Graf and Tom Broekel

Clusters and firm-level innovation: A configurational analysis of agglomeration, network and institutional advantages in European aerospace

Daniël Speldekamp, Joris Knoben and Ayse Saka-Helmhout

Specialisation, diversification and the ladder of green technology development

François Perruchas, Davide Consoli and Nicolò Barbieri

Do research subsidies crowd out private R&D of large firms? Evidence from European Framework Programmes

Florian Szücs

Interrelated funding streams in a multi-funder university system: Evidence from the German Exzellenzinitiative

Guido Buenstorf and Johannes Koenig

Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines

Harald Bathelt and Pengfei Li

Volume 49, issue 2, 2020

Does online access promote research in developing countries? Empirical evidence from article-level data

Frank Mueller-Langer, Marc Scheufen and Patrick Waelbroeck

Natural laboratories as policy instruments for technological learning and institutional capacity building: The case of Chile's astronomy cluster

Jose A. Guridi, Julio A. Pertuze and Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer

Fostering practice-oriented and use-inspired science in biomedical research

Paul-Emmanuel Anckaert, David Cassiman and Bruno Cassiman

Knowledge sources and impacts on subsequent inventions: Do green technologies differ from non-green ones?

Nicolò Barbieri, Alberto Marzucchi and Ugo Rizzo

Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters

Michael Gilding, Julia Brennecke, Vikki Bunton, Dean Lusher, Peter L. Molloy and Alex Codoreanu

Latent innovation in local economies

Stephan J. Goetz and Yicheol Han

Universities’ commitment to interdisciplinary research: To what end?

Erin Leahey and Sondra N. Barringer

Semantically-based patent thicket identification

Mateusz Gątkowski, Marek Dietl, Łukasz Skrok, Ryan Whalen and Katharine Rockett

Volume 49, issue 1, 2020

Removing bottlenecks in business ecosystems: The strategic role of outbound open innovation

Monica Masucci, Stefano Brusoni and Carmelo Cennamo

Resource efficient eco-innovations for a circular economy: Evidence from EU firms

Giulio Cainelli, D’Amato, Alessio and Massimiliano Mazzanti

How to avoid borrowed plumes in academia

Margit Osterloh and Bruno Frey

Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing

Ahmad Beltagui, Ainurul Rosli and Marina Candi

Ambidexterity in government: The influence of different types of legitimacy on innovation

Caroline Nowacki and Ashby Monk

Anchoring innovations in oscillating domestic spaces: Why sanitation service offerings fail in informal settlements

Pauline C. Cherunya, Helene Ahlborg and Bernhard Truffer

EU science diplomacy in a contested space of multi-level governance: Ambitions, constraints and options for action

Nicolas Rüffin

Public procurement, innovation and industrial policy: Rationales, roles, capabilities and implementation

Elvira Uyarra, Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Kieron Flanagan and Edurne Magro

Collected worker experiences and the novelty content of innovation

Marte C.W. Solheim, Ron Boschma and Sverre J. Herstad

Internet and voting in the social media era: Evidence from a local broadband policy

Samuele Poy and Simone Schüller

Founder CEOs and innovation: Evidence from CEO sudden deaths in public firms

Joon Mahn Lee, Jongsoo Kim and Joonhyung Bae

Platform skills and the value of new hires in the software industry

Chunmian Ge, Ke-Wei Huang and Atreyi Kankanhalli

Blockchain and the evolution of institutional technologies: Implications for innovation policy

Darcy W.E. Allen, Chris Berg, Brendan Markey-Towler, Mikayla Novak and Jason Potts

What do we know about R&D spillovers and productivity? Meta-analysis evidence on heterogeneity and statistical power

Mehmet Ugur, Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Hoang M. Luong

Labor market regulation, the diversity of knowledge and skill, and national innovation performance

Andrea Filippetti and Frederick Guy

Gordon Tullock meets Phineas Gage: The political economy of lobotomies in the United States

Raymond J. March and Vincent Geloso

Know when to fold ‘em: An empirical description of risk management in public research funding

Anna P. Goldstein and Michael Kearney

Progress and setbacks: The two faces of technology emergence

Rahul Kapoor and Thomas Klueter

Private and public values of innovation: A patent analysis of synthetic biology

Barbara Ribeiro and Philip Shapira

Firm survival in complex value chains and global innovation systems: Evidence from solar photovoltaics

Ann Hipp and Christian Binz

Flexibility in the selection of patent counts: Implications for p-hacking and evidence-based policymaking

Stephan B. Bruns and Martin Kalthaus

Innovation over the industry life-cycle. Does ownership matter?

Marco Cucculelli and Valentina Peruzzi

Swift transition and knowledge cycling: Key capabilities for successful technical and engineering consulting?

Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic and Jonas Söderlund

Ideas with impact: How connectivity shapes idea diffusion

Dirk Deichmann, Christine Moser, Julie M. Birkholz, Adina Nerghes, Peter Groenewegen and Shenghui Wang

Why matter matters: How technology characteristics shape the strategic framing of technologies

Joern Hoppmann, Laura Diaz Anadon and Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Meeting, mating, and intermediating: How incubators can overcome weak network problems in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Frank J. van Rijnsoever

Gender diversity in R&D teams and innovation efficiency: Role of the innovation context

Luqun Xie, Jieyu Zhou, Qingqing Zong and Qian Lu

Public R&D spending and cross-sectional stock returns

Sheng-Syan Chen, Yan-Shing Chen, Woan-lih Liang and Yanzhi Wang

Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter?

Hanna Hottenrott and Robert Richstein