Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 47, issue 10, 2018

Technology adoption, consumer inattention and heuristic decision-making: Evidence from a UK district heating scheme pp. 1873-1886

Andrew Burlinson, Monica Giulietti and Giuliana Battisti

Knowledge exchange in clusters: The contingent role of regional inventive concentration pp. 1887-1903

Alex Vestal and Erwin Danneels

Safety crises and R&D outsourcing alliances: Which governance mode minimizes negative spillovers? pp. 1904-1917

Luis Diestre

Innovation and productivity among heterogeneous firms pp. 1918-1932

Diego Morris

Sailing in all winds: Technological search over the business cycle pp. 1933-1944

Daniela Silvestri, Massimo Riccaboni and Antonio Della Malva

Selective subsidies, entrepreneurial founders' human capital, and access to R&D alliances pp. 1945-1963

Luca Grilli and Samuele Murtinu

The interplay of cognitive and relational social capital dimensions in university-industry collaboration: Overcoming the experience barrier pp. 1964-1974

Marianne Steinmo and Einar Rasmussen

Institutional shaping of research priorities: A case study on avian influenza pp. 1975-1989

Matthew L. Wallace and Ismael Rafols

Technology intensity and agglomeration economies pp. 1990-1995

Jiaochen Liang and Stephan Goetz

Transition towards a green economy in Europe: Innovation and knowledge integration in the renewable energy sector pp. 1996-2009

C. Conti, Maria Mancusi, F. Sanna-Randaccio, Roberta Sestini and Elena Verdolini

The impact of the French policy mix on business R&D: How geography matters pp. 2010-2027

Benjamin Montmartin, Marcos Herrera-Gómez and Nadine Massard

The role of makerspaces in supporting consumer innovation and diffusion: An empirical analysis pp. 2028-2036

Maria A. Halbinger

How does openness influence the impact of a scholar’s research? An analysis of business scholars’ citations over their careers pp. 2037-2047

Mustapha Belkhouja and Hyungseok Yoon

Societal trust and open innovation pp. 2048-2065

Paul Brockman, Inder K. Khurana and Zhong, Rong (Irene)

The timing of openness in a radical innovation project, a temporal and loose coupling perspective pp. 2066-2076

Hanna Bahemia, John Sillince and Wim Vanhaverbeke

Volume 47, issue 9, 2018

Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change pp. 1554-1567

Johan Schot and W. Edward Steinmueller

Mobilizing innovation for sustainability transitions: A comment on transformative innovation policy pp. 1568-1576

Jan Fagerberg

Regulating global capitalism amid rampant corporate wrongdoing—Reply to “Three frames for innovation policy” pp. 1577-1582

Elisa Giuliani

Divide to connect: Reorganization through R&D unit spinout as linking context of intra-corporate networks pp. 1585-1600

Bruno Cirillo, Stefano Breschi and Andrea Prencipe

Do electric vehicle incentives matter? Evidence from the 50 U.S. states pp. 1601-1610

Sherilyn Wee, Makena Coffman and Sumner La Croix

Bulding ambidexterity through creativity mechanisms: Contextual drivers of innovation success pp. 1611-1625

Elena Revilla and Beatriz Rodriguez-Prado

Anatomy of use-inspired researchers: From Pasteur’s Quadrant to Pasteur’s Cube model pp. 1626-1638

Robert J.W. Tijssen

Do policy mix characteristics matter for low-carbon innovation? A survey-based exploration of renewable power generation technologies in Germany pp. 1639-1654

Karoline S. Rogge and Joachim Schleich

Firm technological responses to regulatory changes: A longitudinal study in the Le Mans Prototype racing pp. 1655-1673

Paolo Aversa and Olivier Guillotin

Functional centrality and innovation intensity: Employee-level analysis of the Telenor group pp. 1674-1687

Fulvio Castellacci, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Jarle Hildrum, Ieva Martinkenaite and Erlend Simensen

Post-acquisition integrative versus independent innovation: A story of dueling success factors pp. 1688-1699

Joshua B. Sears

Knowledge space oddity: How to increase the intensity and relevance of the technological progress of European regions pp. 1700-1712

Roberta Apa, Ivan De Noni, Luigi Orsi and Silvia Rita Sedita

Bridging distant technological domains: A longitudinal study of the determinants of breadth of innovation diffusion pp. 1713-1728

Michalis E. Papazoglou and Yiannis E. Spanos

The wider impacts of high-technology employment: Evidence from U.S. cities pp. 1729-1740

Tom Kemeny and Taner Osman

How do legal surprises drive organizational attention and case resolution? An analysis of false patent marking lawsuits pp. 1741-1761

Amol M. Joshi and Iman Hemmatian

Technology and employment: Mass unemployment or job creation? Empirical evidence from European patenting firms pp. 1762-1776

Vincent Van Roy, Daniel Vertesy and Marco Vivarelli

Federal funding and the rate and direction of inventive activity pp. 1777-1800

Rafael A. Corredoira, Brent D. Goldfarb and Yuan Shi

Varieties of innovation and business survival: Does pursuit of incremental or far-ranging innovation make manufacturing establishments more resilient? pp. 1801-1810

Timothy Wojan, Daniel Crown and Anil Rupasingha

Mind the gap: Capturing value from basic research through combining mobile inventors and partnerships pp. 1811-1824

Bruno Cassiman, Reinhilde Veugelers and Sam Arts

The sociology of scientific validity: How professional networks shape judgement in peer review pp. 1825-1841

Misha Teplitskiy, Daniel Acuna, Aïda Elamrani-Raoult, Konrad Körding and James Evans

Modelling the joint impact of R&D and ICT on productivity: A frontier analysis approach pp. 1842-1852

Fabio Pieri, Michela Vecchi and Francesco Venturini

The economic impact of technological procurement for large-scale research infrastructures: Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN pp. 1853-1867

Paolo Castelnovo, Massimo Florio, Stefano Forte, Lucio Rossi and Emanuela Sirtori

Volume 47, issue 8, 2018

Profiting from innovation in the digital economy: Enabling technologies, standards, and licensing models in the wireless world pp. 1367-1387

David J. Teece

Observations and conjectures stimulated by David Teece’s “Profiting from Innovation in the Digital Economy…” pp. 1388-1390

Richard Nelson

Dynamic and integrative capabilities for profiting from innovation in digital platform-based ecosystems pp. 1391-1399

Constance E. Helfat and Ruth S. Raubitschek

Reply to Nelson, Helfat and Raubitschek pp. 1400-1402

David J. Teece

The long and winding road: Routine creation and replication in multi-site organizations pp. 1403-1417

Andrew Davies, Lars Frederiksen, Eugenia Cacciatori and Andreas Hartmann

Innovation and business survival: A long-term approach pp. 1418-1436

José M. Ortiz-Villajos and Sonia Sotoca

A comparative evaluation of regional subsidies for collaborative and individual R&D in small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 1437-1447

Annalisa Caloffi, Marco Mariani, Federica Rossi and Margherita Russo

Joint ventures and technology adoption: A Chinese industrial policy that backfired pp. 1448-1462

Sabrina T. Howell

It's never too late: Funding dynamics and self pledges in reward-based crowdfunding pp. 1463-1477

Paolo Crosetto and Tobias Regner

The second face of systems integration: An empirical analysis of supply chains to complex product systems pp. 1478-1494

Eugene Gholz, Andrew D. James and Thomas H. Speller

Exploring the sources of design innovations: Insights from the computer, communications and audio equipment industries pp. 1495-1504

Sujan M. Dan, Brian I. Spaid and Charles H. Noble

Simultaneous pursuit of discovery and invention in the US Department of Energy pp. 1505-1512

Anna P. Goldstein and Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Agency in regime destabilization through the selection environment: The Finnish food system’s sustainability transition pp. 1513-1522

A. Kuokkanen, A. Nurmi, M. Mikkilä, M. Kuisma, H. Kahiluoto and L. Linnanen

Organization of knowledge ecosystems: Prefigurative and partial forms pp. 1523-1537

Kati Järvi, Argyro Almpanopoulou and Paavo Ritala

When access to drugs meets catch-up: Insights from the use of CL threats to improve access to ARV drugs in Brazil pp. 1538-1552

Shyama V. Ramani and Eduardo Urias

Volume 47, issue 7, 2018

Publishing, patenting, and standardization: Motives and barriers of scientists pp. 1185-1197

Knut Blind, Jakob Pohlisch and Aikaterini Zi

International research networks: Determinants of country embeddedness pp. 1198-1214

Holger Graf and Martin Kalthaus

Knowledge dissemination in clinical trials: Exploring influences of institutional support and type of innovation on selective reporting pp. 1215-1228

Rossella Salandra

In the eyes of the beholder: The effect of participant diversity on perceived merits of collaborative innovations pp. 1229-1242

Jade Y. Lo and Haiyang Li

Geographic dispersion and co-location in global R&D portfolios: Consequences for firm performance pp. 1243-1255

Mario Kafouros, Chengqi Wang, Eva Mavroudi, Junjie Hong and Constantine S. Katsikeas

Research subsidies, industry–university cooperation and innovation pp. 1256-1266

Florian Szücs

Explaining sociotechnical transitions: A critical realist perspective pp. 1267-1282

Steve Sorrell

Innovation and firm performance in developing countries: The case of Pakistani textile and apparel manufacturers pp. 1283-1294

Waqar Wadho and Azam Chaudhry

The evolution of government sponsored collaboration network and its impact on innovation: A bibliometric analysis in the Chinese solar PV sector pp. 1295-1308

Xinning Liang and Anita M.M. Liu

Role of public research institutes in national innovation systems in industrialized countries: The cases of Fraunhofer, NIST, CSIRO, AIST, and ITRI pp. 1309-1320

Patarapong Intarakumnerd and Akira Goto

Demand drops and innovation investments: Evidence from the Great Recession in Spain pp. 1321-1333

Alex Armand and Pedro Mendi

Boundary spanning innovation and the patent system: Interdisciplinary challenges for a specialized examination system pp. 1334-1343

Ryan Whalen

Partly risky, partly solid – Performance study of public innovation loans pp. 1344-1365

Gjermund Grimsby

Volume 47, issue 6, 2018

The gender gap in early career transitions in the life sciences pp. 1007-1017

Marc J. Lerchenmueller and Olav Sorenson

Green patents, regulatory policies and research network policies pp. 1018-1031

Andrea Fabrizi, Giulio Guarini and Valentina Meliciani

The persistence of entrepreneurship and innovative immigrants pp. 1032-1044

Yong Suk Lee and Chuck Eesley

Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality pp. 1045-1059

Johan Schot and Laur Kanger

University licensing and the flow of scientific knowledge pp. 1060-1069

Neil C. Thompson, Arvids A. Ziedonis and David C. Mowery

Funding model and creativity in science: Competitive versus block funding and status contingency effects pp. 1070-1083

Jian Wang, You-Na Lee and John P. Walsh

Nonlinear capital market payoffs to science-led innovation pp. 1084-1095

Houdou Basse Mama

Contractual governance and the choice of dispute-resolution mechanisms: Evidence on technology licensing pp. 1096-1110

Valérie Duplat, Régis Coeurderoy and John Hagedoorn

Innovation and network multiplexity: R&D and the concurrent effects of two collaboration networks in an emerging economy pp. 1111-1124

Mariana Giovanna Andrade Rojas, Edgar Rogelio Ramirez Solis and John JianJun Zhu

Does education help “old dogs” learn “new tricks”? The lasting impact of early-life education on technology use among older adults pp. 1125-1132

Fabrice Kampfen and Jürgen Maurer

Brokerage and balance: Creating an effective organizational interface for product modularization in multinational R&D pp. 1133-1146

Yang Liu, Xingkun Liang and Yongjiang Shi

Integrating structural tensions into technological innovation systems analysis: Application to the case of transmission interconnections and renewable electricity in Nova Scotia, Canada pp. 1147-1160

Brendan Haley

Coordinating innovation projects with high tech suppliers through contracts pp. 1161-1172

Tim Preeker and Pietro De Giovanni

Geographical clustering and firm growth: Differential growth performance among clustered firms pp. 1173-1184

Chang-Yang Lee

Volume 47, issue 5, 2018

Above a swamp: A theory of high-quality scientific production pp. 827-839

Bralind Kiri, Nicola Lacetera and Lorenzo Zirulia

Internal and external discipline: The effect of project leadership and government monitoring on the performance of publicly funded R&D consortia pp. 840-853

Junichi Nishimura and Hiroyuki Okamuro

Impact of the excise tax on firm R&D and performance in the medical device industry: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act pp. 854-871

Daeyong Lee

Energy Internet forums as acceleration phase transition intermediaries pp. 872-885

Sampsa Hyysalo, Jouni K. Juntunen and Mari Martiskainen

On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa pp. 886-900

Moritz Müller, Robin Cowan and Helena Barnard

From symbolic values to symbolic innovation: Internet-memes and innovation pp. 901-910

Mickael Benaim

Adopters build bridges: Changing the institutional logic for more sustainable cities. From action to workset to practice pp. 911-923

Ursula Weisenfeld and Antoniya Hauerwaas

Retraction statements and research malpractice in economics pp. 924-935

Adam Cox, Russell Craig and Dennis Tourish

A time to nourish? Evaluating the impact of public procurement on technological generality through patent data pp. 936-952

Emilio Raiteri

Product innovation rumors as forms of open innovation pp. 953-964

Timothy R. Hannigan, Victor P. Seidel and Basak Yakis-Douglas

When neighboring disciplines fail to learn from each other: The case of innovation and project management research pp. 965-979

Andrew Davies, Stephan Manning and Jonas Söderlund

Market size and innovation: The intermediary role of technology licensing pp. 980-991

Manuel Hermosilla and Yufei Wu

Benefiting colleagues but not the city: Localized effects from the relocation of superstar inventors pp. 992-1005

Paolo Zacchia

Volume 47, issue 4, 2018

Absorptive capacity for need knowledge: Antecedents and effects for employee innovativeness pp. 687-699

Tim G. Schweisfurth and Christina Raasch

The climate for entrepreneurship at higher education institutions pp. 700-716

Heiko Bergmann, Mario Geissler, Christian Hundt and Barbara Grave

Polycentric organizing and performance: A contingency model and evidence from megaproject planning in the UK pp. 717-734

Nuno Gil and Jeffrey K. Pinto

Global socio-technical regimes pp. 735-749

Lea Fuenfschilling and Christian Binz

Spillovers in the production of knowledge: A meta-regression analysis pp. 750-767

Pedro Cunha Neves and Tiago Sequeira

A novel technology-industry concordance table based on linked inventor-establishment data pp. 768-781

Matthias Dorner and Dietmar Harhoff

The innovative performance of firms in heterogeneous environments: The interplay between external knowledge and internal absorptive capacities pp. 782-795

Riccardo Crescenzi and Luisa Gagliardi

When the clock starts ticking: Measuring strategic responses to TRIPS's patent term change pp. 796-804

Jorge Lemus and Guillermo Marshall

An advisor like me? Advisor gender and post-graduate careers in science pp. 805-813

Patrick Gaulé and Mario Piacentini

University invention and the abolishment of the professor's privilege in Finland pp. 814-825

Olof Ejermo and Hannes Toivanen

Volume 47, issue 3, 2018

Superstars in the making? The broad effects of interdisciplinary centers pp. 543-557

Susan Biancani, Linus Dahlander, Daniel A. McFarland and Sanne Smith

Protecting knowledge: How legal requirements to reveal information affect the importance of secrecy pp. 558-572

Wolfgang Sofka, Pedro de Faria and Edlira Shehu

The making of homophilic networks in international research collaborations: A global perspective from Chilean and Korean engineering pp. 573-582

Sergio Celis and Jeongeun Kim

What determines the duration of patent examination in China? An outcome-specific duration analysis of invention patent applications at SIPO pp. 583-591

Tony W. Tong, Kun Zhang, Zi-Lin He and Yuchen Zhang

The evolving relations between government agencies of innovation policymaking in emerging economies: A policy network approach and its application to the Chinese case pp. 592-605

Yutao Sun and Cong Cao

To trademark or not to trademark: The case of the creative and cultural industries pp. 606-616

Carolina Castaldi

Defining and measuring innovation in all sectors of the economy pp. 617-622

Fred Gault

R&D subsidies & external collaborative breadth: Differential gains and the role of collaboration experience pp. 623-636

Gary Chapman, Abel Lucena and Sergio Afcha

Is there a startup wage premium? Evidence from MIT graduates pp. 637-649

J. Daniel Kim

The social structure of entrepreneurship as a scientific field pp. 650-662

Hans Landström and Gouya Harirchi

Drivers of spin-off performance in industry clusters: Embodied knowledge or embedded firms? pp. 663-673

Guido Buenstorf and Carla Costa

An organisational perspective on the cluster paradox: Exploring how members of a cluster manage the tension between continuity and renewal pp. 674-685

Jonatan Pinkse, Anne-Lorène Vernay and D’Ippolito, Beatrice

Volume 47, issue 2, 2018

A theory of grand innovation prizes pp. 343-362

Alberto Galasso, Matthew Mitchell and Gábor Virág

Individual and organizational inhibitors to the development of entrepreneurial competencies in universities pp. 363-378

Ali Aslan Gümüsay and Thomas Marc Bohné

Concentration on the few: mechanisms behind a falling share of innovative firms in Germany pp. 379-389

Christian Rammer and Torben Schubert

Welfare improvement windows for innovation policy pp. 390-398

Benjamin D. Leibowicz

Innovation and government intervention: A comparison of Singapore and Hong Kong pp. 399-412

Jue Wang

Disentangling the antecedents of ambidexterity: Exploration and exploitation pp. 413-427

Oksana Koryak, Andy Lockett, James Hayton, Nicos Nicolaou and Kevin Mole

R&D, foreign ownership, and corporate groups: Evidence from Japanese firms pp. 428-439

Hyeog Ug Kwon and Jungsoo Park

Innovation: The interplay between demand-side shock and supply-side environment pp. 440-461

Ivalina Kalcheva, Ping McLemore and Shagun Pant

Structure reconsidered: Towards new foundations of explanatory transitions theory pp. 462-473

Oscar Svensson and Alexandra Nikoleris

Host country R&D determinants of MNE entry strategy: A study of ownership in the automobile industry pp. 474-486

Christopher Williams and Alina Vrabie

First adoption of consumer innovations: Exploring market failure and alleviating factors pp. 487-497

Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Nils Lennart Gillert and Ruth M. Stock

Customer participation and new product performance: Towards the understanding of the mechanisms and key contingencies pp. 498-510

Todd Morgan, Michael Obal and Sergey Anokhin

A tie is a tie? Gender and network positioning in life science inventor collaboration pp. 511-526

Kjersten Bunker Whittington

Ownership concentration and innovativeness of corporate ventures pp. 527-541

Katrin Hussinger, Johannes M.H. Dick and Dirk Czarnitzki

Volume 47, issue 1, 2018

The role of collaborative networks in supporting the innovation performances of lagging-behind European regions pp. 1-13

Ivan De Noni, Luigi Orsi and Fiorenza Belussi

The new production of legitimacy: STI policy discourses beyond the contract metaphor pp. 14-22

Tim Flink and David Kaldewey

Framing inclusive innovation within the discourse of development: Insights from case studies in India pp. 23-34

Mario Pansera and Richard Owen

Gaining insight into interdisciplinary research and education programmes: A framework for evaluation pp. 35-48

Gemma Carr, Daniel P. Loucks and Günter Blöschl

Skills or networks? Success and fundraising determinants in a low performing venture capital market pp. 49-60

Miona Milosevic

Collingridge and the dilemma of control: Towards responsible and accountable innovation pp. 61-69

Audley Genus and Andy Stirling

Innovation intermediaries and collaboration: Knowledge–based practices and internal value creation pp. 70-87

Muthu De Silva, Jeremy Howells and Martin Meyer

Factors influencing research collaborations in Kenyan universities pp. 88-97

Petronilla Muriithi, David Horner, Lyn Pemberton and Hesborn Wao

Do university mergers create academic synergy? Evidence from China and the Nordic Countries pp. 98-107

Qiaochu Liu, Donald Patton and Martin Kenney

The distinct signaling effects of R&D subsidy and non-R&D subsidy on IPO performance of IT entrepreneurial firms in China pp. 108-120

Jin Chen, Cheng Suang Heng, Bernard C.Y. Tan and Zhijie Lin

Innovation in UK higher education: A panel data analysis of undergraduate degree programmes pp. 121-138

Nola Hewitt-Dundas and Stephen Roper

New firm formation and regional knowledge production modes: Italian evidence pp. 139-157

Alessandra Colombelli and Francesco Quatraro

The role of knowledge base homogeneity in learning from strategic alliances pp. 158-168

Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Wang Bo and Chai Kah-Hin

Serendipity: Towards a taxonomy and a theory pp. 169-179

Ohid Yaqub

Initial public offering and financing of biotechnology start-ups: Evidence from Japan pp. 180-193

Yuji Honjo and Sadao Nagaoka

Organizational and human resource management and innovation: Which management practices are linked to product and/or process innovation? pp. 194-208

Shoko Haneda and Keiko Ito

Unintended consequences on gender diversity of high-tech growth and labor market polarization pp. 209-217

Elsie L. Echeverri-Carroll, Michael D. Oden, David V. Gibson and Evan A. Johnston

The “human side” of open innovation: The role of employee diversity in firm-level openness pp. 218-231

Marcel Bogers, Nicolai J. Foss and Jacob Lyngsie

Outward FDI, location choices and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises pp. 232-240

Panagiotis Piperopoulos, Jie Wu and Chengqi Wang

Uncovering the link between governance as an innovation process and socio-economic regime transition in cities pp. 241-251

Geoff Simmons, Jorge Esteban Diez Giraldo, Yann Truong and Mark Palmer

Inventing by combining pre-existing technologies: Patent evidence on learning and fishing out pp. 252-265

Matthew Clancy

From invisibility to impact: Recognising the scientific and societal relevance of interdisciplinary sustainability research pp. 266-276

Henrike Rau, Gary Goggins and Frances Fahy

Policies to promote user innovation: Makerspaces and clinician innovation in Swedish hospitals pp. 277-288

Peter O. Svensson and Rasmus Koss Hartmann

Understanding productivity dynamics: A task taxonomy approach pp. 289-304

Tiago Fonseca, Francisco Lima and Sonia C. Pereira

Internet use and well-being: A survey and a theoretical framework pp. 308-325

Fulvio Castellacci and Vegard Tveito

Architectural innovation and the emergence of a dominant design: The effects of strategic sourcing on performance pp. 326-341

Woo-Yong Park, Young K. Ro and Namwoon Kim