Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 46, issue 10, 2017

Journal rankings in management and business studies: What rules do we play by? pp. 1707-1722

Rick Vogel, Fabian Hattke and Jessica Petersen

Crowdfunding and regional entrepreneurial investment: an application of the CrowdBerkeley database pp. 1723-1737

Sandy Yu, Scott Johnson, Chiayu Lai, Antonio Cricelli and Lee Fleming

Ideas production and international knowledge spillovers: Digging deeper into emerging countries pp. 1738-1754

Kul Luintel and Mosahid Khan

Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing pp. 1755-1768

Ian Vickers, Fergus Lyon, Leandro Sepulveda and Caitlin McMullin

Exploring preferences for impact versus publications among UK business and management academics pp. 1769-1782

Ammon Salter, Rossella Salandra and James Walker

NK model as a representation of innovative search pp. 1783-1800

Martin Ganco

Horizon problem and firm innovation: The influence of CEO career horizon, exploitation and exploration on breakthrough innovations pp. 1801-1809

Sam Yul Cho and Sang Kyun Kim

Too much or too little of R&D offshoring: The impact of captive offshoring and contract offshoring on innovation performance pp. 1810-1823

Philip J. Steinberg, Vivien Procher and Diemo Urbig

Too hot to reject: The effect of weather variations on the patent examination process at the United States Patent and Trademark Office pp. 1824-1835

Balázs Kovács

Balancing exploration and exploitation in inventions: Quality of inventions and team composition pp. 1836-1850

Pengfei Wang, Vareska Van De Vrande and Justin J.P. Jansen

Assessing the policy mix of public support to business R&D pp. 1851-1862

Michel Dumont

Impact of research collaboration cosmopolitanism on job satisfaction pp. 1863-1872

Jiwon Jung, Barry Bozeman and Monica Gaughan

The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of “learning by doing”: Evidence from India pp. 1873-1886

Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi and Nanditha Mathew

Volume 46, issue 9, 2017

The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed firms pp. 1533-1551

Zhao Rong, Xiaokai Wu and Philipp Boeing

The career effects of scandal: Evidence from scientific retractions pp. 1552-1569

Pierre Azoulay, Alessandro Bonatti and Joshua L. Krieger

The persistency and volatility of the firm R&D investment: Revisited from the perspective of technological capability pp. 1570-1579

Taewon Kang, Chulwoo Baek and Jeong-Dong Lee

From science to technology: The value of knowledge from different energy research institutions pp. 1580-1594

David Popp

An evaluation and explanation of (in)efficiency in higher education institutions in Europe and the U.S. with the application of two-stage semi-parametric DEA pp. 1595-1605

Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz

From the crowd to the market: The role of reward-based crowdfunding performance in attracting professional investors pp. 1606-1628

Paolo Roma, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Giovanni Perrone

Standard vs. partnership-embedded licensing: Attention and the relationship between licensing and product innovations pp. 1629-1643

Thomas Klueter, L. Felipe Monteiro and Denise R. Dunlap

Global markets for technology: Evidence from patent transactions pp. 1644-1654

Antonio De Marco, Giuseppe Scellato, Elisa Ughetto and Federico Caviggioli

International knowledge flows and the administrative barriers to mobility pp. 1655-1665

Sultan Orazbayev

Why researchers publish in non-mainstream journals: Training, knowledge bridging, and gap filling pp. 1666-1680

Diego Chavarro, Puay Tang and Ismael Rafols

Conditions for innovation in public sector organizations pp. 1681-1691

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and David B. Audretsch

Institutionalization of international university research ventures pp. 1692-1705

Jan Youtie, Yin Li, Juan Rogers and Philip Shapira

Volume 46, issue 8, 2017

Exploring scientific productivity and transfer activities: Evidence from Argentinean ICT research groups pp. 1361-1369

Florencia Barletta, Gabriel Yoguel, Mariano Pereira and Sergio Rodríguez

Multi-mode standardisation: A critical review and a research agenda pp. 1370-1386

Paul Moritz Wiegmann, Henk J. de Vries and Knut Blind

Socio-economic impacts and public value of government-funded research: Lessons from four US National Science Foundation initiatives pp. 1387-1398

Barry Bozeman and Jan Youtie

The rise of project network organizations: Building core teams and flexible partner pools for interorganizational projects pp. 1399-1415

Stephan Manning

Bias against novelty in science: A cautionary tale for users of bibliometric indicators pp. 1416-1436

Jian Wang, Reinhilde Veugelers and Paula Stephan

What drives innovation? Evidence from economic history pp. 1437-1453

Josef Taalbi

Show me the Money: Federal R&D Support for Academic Chemistry, 1990–2009 pp. 1454-1464

Joshua Rosenbloom and Donna Ginther

Repairing the R&D market failure: Public R&D subsidy and the composition of private R&D pp. 1465-1478

Joonhwan Choi and Jaegul Lee

“To Own, or not to Own?” A multilevel analysis of intellectual property right policies' on academic entrepreneurship pp. 1479-1489

Norrin Halilem, Nabil Amara, Julia Olmos-Peñuela and Muhammad Mohiuddin

Location choices of graduate entrepreneurs pp. 1490-1504

Johan Larsson, Karl Wennberg, Johan Wiklund and Mike Wright

Innovation, quality management and learning: Short-term and longer-term effects pp. 1505-1518

Jane Bourke and Stephen Roper

Technology, employment and skills: A look into job duration pp. 1519-1530

Hugo Castro Silva and Francisco Lima

Volume 46, issue 7, 2017

Geographical patterns in US inventive activity 1977–1998: The “regional inversion” was underestimated pp. 1187-1197

Carolina Castaldi and Bart Los

Subsidies or loans? Evaluating the impact of R&D support programmes pp. 1198-1214

Elena Huergo and Lourdes Moreno

When risks cannot be seen: Regulating uncertainty in emerging technologies pp. 1215-1233

Jaime Bonnín Roca, Parth Vaishnav, M.Granger Morgan, Joana Mendonça and Erica Fuchs

Standards as a driving force that influences emerging technological trajectories in the converging world of the Internet and things: An investigation of the M2M/IoT patent network pp. 1234-1254

Dong-hyu Kim, Heejin Lee and Jooyoung Kwak

Dynamic impact of uncertainty on R&D cooperation formation and research performance: Evidence from the bio-pharmaceutical industry pp. 1255-1271

Tannista Banerjee and Ralph Siebert

Does democracy cause innovation? An empirical test of the popper hypothesis pp. 1272-1283

Yanyan Gao, Leizhen Zang, Antoine Roth and Puqu Wang

Global Innovation Systems—A conceptual framework for innovation dynamics in transnational contexts pp. 1284-1298

Christian Binz and Bernhard Truffer

Do emerging countries prefer local knowledge or distant knowledge? Spillover effect of university collaborations on local firms pp. 1299-1311

Shumin Qiu, Xielin Liu and Taishan Gao

Determinants of young firms’ innovative performance: Empirical evidence from Europe pp. 1312-1326

Aimilia Protogerou, Yannis Caloghirou and Nicholas S. Vonortas

DUI mode learning and barriers to innovation—A case from Germany pp. 1327-1339

Jörg Thomä

A multi-sector growth model with technology diffusion and networks pp. 1340-1359

Manuela Magalhães and Oscar Afonso

Volume 46, issue 6, 2017

Interdisciplinary and collaborative work: Framing promotion and tenure practices and policies pp. 1055-1061

Julie Thompson Klein and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski

But what will it cost me? How do private costs of participation affect open source software projects? pp. 1062-1070

Mazhar Islam, Jacob Miller and Haemin Dennis Park

Incumbents’ diversification and cross-sectorial energy industry dynamics pp. 1071-1086

Markus Steen and Tyson Weaver

Towards evidence-based management of external resources: Developing design propositions and future research avenues through research synthesis pp. 1087-1105

Kari Tanskanen, Tuomas Ahola, Anna Aminoff, Johanna Bragge, Riikka Kaipia and Katri Kauppi

Does innovation policy attract international competition? Evidence from energy storage pp. 1106-1117

Kira R. Fabrizio, Sharon Poczter and Bennet A. Zelner

Direct and cross scheme effects in a research and development pp. 1118-1132

Hanna Hottenrott, Cindy Lopes-Bento and Reinhilde Veugelers

Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing pp. 1133-1141

Serena Morricone, Federico Munari, Raffaele Oriani and Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Firm performance and state innovation funding: Evidence from China’s innofund program pp. 1142-1161

Yanbo Wang, Jizhen Li and Jeffrey L. Furman

The role of relative performance in inter-firm mobility of inventors pp. 1162-1174

Francesco Di Lorenzo and Paul Almeida

Cities, immigrant diversity, and complex problem solving pp. 1175-1185

Abigail Cooke and Tom Kemeny

Volume 46, issue 5, 2017

University research and knowledge transfer: A dynamic view of ambidexterity in british universities pp. 881-897

Abhijit Sengupta and Amit Ray

Rethinking the effect of risk aversion on the benefits of service innovations in public administration agencies pp. 900-910

Torugsa, Nuttaneeya (Ann) and Anthony Arundel

Gender effects in research evaluation pp. 911-924

Tullio Jappelli, Carmela Anna Nappi and Roberto Torrini

Drivers of knowledge accumulation in electronic waste management: An analysis of publication data pp. 925-938

Grazia Cecere and Arianna Martinelli

Does environmental regulation indirectly induce upstream innovation? New evidence from India pp. 939-955

Pavel Chakraborty and Chirantan Chatterjee

Climbing the ladder of technological development pp. 956-969

Sergio Petralia, Pierre-Alexandre Balland and Andrea Morrison

Manipulation of explicit reputation in innovation and knowledge exchange communities: The example of referencing in science pp. 970-983

Michael A. Zaggl

The long-term effect of digital innovation on bank performance: An empirical study of SWIFT adoption in financial services pp. 984-1004

Susan V. Scott, John van Reenen and Markos Zachariadis

Examination workloads, grant decision bias and examination quality of patent office pp. 1005-1019

Yee Kyoung Kim and Jun Byoung Oh

Inside the virtuous circle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth: An anatomy of Chinese industrialization pp. 1020-1038

Xiaodan Yu, Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi and Jiasu Lei

Making a marriage of materials: The role of gatekeepers and shepherds in the absorption of external knowledge and innovation performance pp. 1039-1054

Anne L.J. Ter Wal, Paola Criscuolo and Ammon Salter

Volume 46, issue 4, 2017

The sectoral configuration of technological innovation systems: Patterns of knowledge development and diffusion in the lithium-ion battery technology in Japan pp. 709-723

Annegret Stephan, Tobias S. Schmidt, Catharina R. Bening and Volker H. Hoffmann

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO): Measurement and policy implications of entrepreneurship at the macroeconomic level pp. 724-739

Thanti Mthanti and Kalu Ojah

Determinants of PhD holders’ use of social networking sites: An analysis based on LinkedIn pp. 740-750

Stefano H. Baruffaldi, Giorgio Di Maio and Paolo Landoni

Public subsidies, TFP and efficiency: A tale of complex relationships pp. 751-767

Cristina Bernini, Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini

The firm’s knowledge network and the transfer of advice among corporate inventors—A multilevel network study pp. 768-783

Julia Brennecke and Olaf Rank

Toward a better understanding of crowdfunding, openness and the consequences for innovation pp. 784-798

Michael A. Stanko and David H. Henard

Characterizing the policy mix and its impact on eco-innovation: A patent analysis of energy-efficient technologies pp. 799-819

Valeria Costantini, Francesco Crespi and Alessandro Palma

Contracting over the disclosure of scientific knowledge: Intellectual property and academic publication pp. 820-835

Joshua Gans, Fiona E. Murray and Scott Stern

Firm growth, R&D expenditures and exports: An empirical analysis of italian SMEs pp. 836-852

Marco Di Cintio, Sucharita Ghosh and Emanuele Grassi

How stars matter: Recruiting and peer effects in evolutionary biology pp. 853-867

Ajay Agrawal, John McHale and Alexander Oettl

Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students pp. 868-879

Katia Levecque, Frederik Anseel, Alain De Beuckelaer, Johan Van der Heyden and Lydia Gisle

Volume 46, issue 3, 2017

Blade Runner economics: Will innovation lead the economic recovery? pp. 535-543

Daniele Archibugi

Is there a technological fix for the current global stagnation? pp. 544-549

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Science fiction and innovation: A response pp. 550-553

W. Edward Steinmueller

The social imagination needed for an innovation-led recovery pp. 554-556

Daniele Archibugi

How complex international partnerships shape domestic research clusters: Difference-in-difference network formation and research re-orientation in the MIT Portugal Program pp. 557-572

Mackenzie D. Hird and Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer

The mobility of elite life scientists: Professional and personal determinants pp. 573-590

Pierre Azoulay, Ina Ganguli and Joshua Graff Zivin

The impact of health research on length of stay in Spanish public hospitals pp. 591-604

Antonio García-Romero, Alvaro Escribano and Josep Tribó

An examination of product innovation in low- and medium-technology industries: Cases from the UK packaged food sector pp. 605-623

Paul Trott and Chris Simms

Creating change through pilot and demonstration projects: Towards a valuation policy approach pp. 624-635

Ariane Huguenin and Hugues Jeannerat

Social influence in career choice: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on entrepreneurial mentorship pp. 636-650

Charles Eesley and Yanbo Wang

Which industries are served by online marketplaces for technology? pp. 651-666

Gary Dushnitsky and Thomas Klueter

Disentangling patterns of economic, technological and innovative specialization of Western economies: An assessment of the Varieties-of-Capitalism theory on comparative institutional advantages pp. 667-677

Toon Meelen, Andrea M. Herrmann and Jan Faber

Exploring transdisciplinary integration within a large research program: Empirical lessons from four thematic synthesis processes pp. 678-692

Sabine Hoffmann, Christian Pohl and Janet G. Hering

Secondary pharmaceutical patenting: A global perspective pp. 693-707

Bhaven Sampat and Kenneth C. Shadlen

Volume 46, issue 2, 2017

Catch-up cycles and changes in industrial leadership:Windows of opportunity and responses of firms and countries in the evolution of sectoral systems pp. 338-351

Keun Lee and Franco Malerba

Successive changes in leadership in the worldwide mobile phone industry: The role of windows of opportunity and firms’ competitive action pp. 352-364

Claudio Giachetti and Gianluca Marchi

Rise of latecomers and catch-up cycles in the world steel industry pp. 365-375

Keun Lee and Jee-hoon Ki

Innovation and recurring shifts in industrial leadership: Three phases of change and persistence in the camera industry pp. 376-387

Hyo Kang and Jaeyong Song

Preconditions, windows of opportunity and innovation strategies: Successive leadership changes in the regional jet industry pp. 388-403

Daniel Vertesy

Dynamic catch-up strategy, capability expansion and changing windows of opportunity in the memory industry pp. 404-416

Jang-Sup Shin

Gradual catch up and enduring leadership in the global wine industry pp. 417-430

Andrea Morrison and Roberta Rabellotti

A history-friendly model of the successive changes in industrial leadership and the catch-up by latecomers pp. 431-446

Fabio Landini, Keun Lee and Franco Malerba

What promotes R&D? Comparative evidence from around the world pp. 447-462

James Brown, Gustav Martinsson and Bruce Petersen

Dynamic interactions between university-industry knowledge transfer channels: A case study of the most highly cited academic patent pp. 463-474

Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, David Barberá-Tomás, Mónica Edwards-Schachter and Elena M. Tur

Testing regimes in clinical trials: Evidence from four polio vaccine trajectories pp. 475-484

Ohid Yaqub

The effects of licensing-in on innovative performance in different technological regimes pp. 485-496

Jong-Seon Lee, Ji-Hoon Park and Zong-Tae Bae

The importance of pro-social behaviour for the breadth and depth of knowledge transfer activities: An analysis of Italian academic scientists pp. 497-509

Roberto Iorio, Sandrine Labory and Francesco Rentocchini

No money, no honey? Financial versus knowledge and demand constraints on innovation pp. 510-521

Gabriele Pellegrino and Maria Savona

Is there a first mover advantage in science? Pioneering behavior and scientific production in nanotechnology pp. 522-533

Mareva Sabatier and Barthélemy Chollet

Volume 46, issue 1, 2017

Wages in high-tech start-ups – Do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium? pp. 1-18

Matthias Dorner, Helmut Fryges and Kathrin Schopen

Research performance and teaching quality in the Spanish higher education system: Evidence from a medium-sized university pp. 19-29

Joaquín Artés, Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro and Mª del Mar Salinas-JiméneZ

The EU 2020 innovation indicator: A step forward in measuring innovation outputs and outcomes? pp. 30-42

Jürgen Janger, Torben Schubert, Petra Andries, Christian Rammer and Machteld Hoskens

Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance pp. 43-56

Stephen Roper, James H. Love and Karen Bonner

Sectors and the additionality effects of R&D tax credits: A cross-country microeconometric analysis pp. 57-72

Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas, Fulvio Castellacci, Roberto Fontana, Franco Malerba and Andrea Vezzulli

The dynamics of cluster entrepreneurship: Knowledge legacy from parents or agglomeration effects? The case of the Castellon ceramic tile district pp. 73-92

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, María Lleo and Roberto Cervello

Aligning and Reconciling: Building project capabilities for digital delivery pp. 93-107

Sunila Lobo and Jennifer Whyte

Credibility and use of scientific and technical information in policy making: An analysis of the information bases of the National Research Council’s committee reports pp. 108-120

Jan Youtie, Barry Bozeman, Sahra Jabbehdari and Andrew Kao

The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance pp. 121-137

Thomas Zwick, Katharina Frosch, Karin Hoisl and Dietmar Harhoff

Does foreign direct investment improve the productivity of domestic firms? Technology spillovers, industry linkages, and firm capabilities pp. 138-159

Feng Helen Liang

Captured by technology? How material agency sustains interaction between regulators and industry actors pp. 160-170

John Finch, Susi Geiger and Emma Reid

Making norms to tackle global challenges: The role of Intergovernmental Organisations pp. 171-181

Adriana Nilsson

Contract enforcement and R&D investment pp. 182-195

Michael Seitz and Martin Watzinger

Beyond local search: Bridging platforms and inter-sectoral technological integration pp. 196-206

Carlo Corradini and Lisa De Propris

Opening the black box of impact – Ideal-type impact pathways in a public agricultural research organization pp. 207-218

Mireille Matt, A. Gaunand, P-B. Joly and L. Colinet

Does government support for private innovation matter? Firm-level evidence from two catching-up countries pp. 219-237

Krzysztof Szczygielski, Wojciech Grabowski, Mehmet Pamukçu and Vedat Tandoğan

Comparing internal and external lead users as sources of innovation pp. 238-248

Tim G. Schweisfurth

The impact of standards and regulation on innovation in uncertain markets pp. 249-264

Knut Blind, Sören S. Petersen and Cesare Riillo

Determinants of citation impact: A comparative analysis of the Global South versus the Global North pp. 265-279

Hugo Confraria, Manuel Godinho and Lili Wang

Institutions, resources and innovation in East Africa: A firm level approach pp. 280-291

Laura Barasa, Joris Knoben, Patrick Vermeulen, Peter Kimuyu and Bethuel Kinyanjui

Unions, collective relations laws and R&D investment in emerging and developing countries pp. 292-304

Benjamin Balsmeier

Social networks, technology ties, and gatekeeper functionality: Implications for the performance management of R&D projects pp. 305-315

Chia-Liang Hung

The long-run growth effects of R&D policy pp. 316-326

Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini

Distribution sensitive innovation policies: Conceptualization and empirical examples pp. 327-336

Amos Zehavi and Dan Breznitz