Research Policy

1971 - 2025

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Volume 45, issue 10, 2016

Emergent phenomena in scientific publishing: A simulation exercise pp. 1945-1952

Jakob Kapeller and Stefan Steinerberger

Migrant entrepreneurs and local networks in industrial districts pp. 1953-1964

Jacopo Canello

Do deployment policies pick technologies by (not) picking applications?—A simulation of investment decisions in technologies with multiple applications pp. 1965-1983

Tobias S. Schmidt, Benedikt Battke, David Grosspietsch and Volker H. Hoffmann

Cluster and co-located cluster effects: An empirical study of six Chinese city regions pp. 1984-1995

Ren Lu, Min Ruan and Torger Reve

Firm R&D, innovation and easing financial constraints in China: Does corporate tax reform matter? pp. 1996-2007

Anthony Howell

The role of interpartner dissimilarities in Industry-University alliances: Insights from a comparative case study pp. 2008-2022

Isabel Estrada, Dries Faems, Natalia Martin Cruz and Pilar Perez Santana

The effectiveness of tax incentives for R&D+i in developing countries: The case of Argentina pp. 2023-2035

Gustavo Crespi, David Giuliodori, Roberto Giuliodori and Alejandro Rodriguez

Complementarities in the search for innovation—Managing markets and relationships pp. 2036-2053

Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka

Intellectual property rights hinder sequential innovation. Experimental evidence pp. 2054-2068

Julia Brüggemann, Paolo Crosetto, Lukas Meub and Kilian Bizer

R&D and productivity in OECD firms and industries: A hierarchical meta-regression analysis pp. 2069-2086

Mehmet Ugur, Eshref Trushin, Edna Solomon and Francesco Guidi

Product market regulation, innovation, and productivity pp. 2087-2104

Bruno Amable, Ivan Ledezma and Stéphane Robin

Why are researchers paid bonuses? On technology spillovers and market rivalry pp. 2105-2112

d’Andria, Diego

Non-compete clauses, employee effort and spin-off entrepreneurship: A laboratory experiment pp. 2113-2124

Guido Buenstorf, Christoph Engel, Sven Fischer and Werner Gueth

Is it better to “Stand on Two Boats” or “Sit on the Chinese Lap”?: Examining the cultural contingency of network structures in the contemporary Chinese academic labor market pp. 2125-2137

Xiao Lu and Paul-Brian McInerney

An institutionalized policy-making mechanism: China’s return to techno-industrial policy pp. 2138-2152

Ling Chen and Barry Naughton

Knowledge acquisition and complementary specialization in alliances: The impact of technological overlap and alliance experience pp. 2153-2165

Korcan Kavusan, Niels Noorderhaven and Geert Duysters

Volume 45, issue 9, 2016

The sciences are different and the differences matter pp. 1692-1701

Richard Nelson

Varieties of scientific knowledge and their contributions to dealing with policy problems: A response to Richard Nelson’s “The sciences are different and the differences matter” pp. 1702-1707

Richard Whitley

The three legs of a stool: Comment on Richard Nelson, “The sciences are different and the differences matter” pp. 1708-1712

Wesley M. Cohen and Jon Fjeld

Additionality or crowding-out? An overall evaluation of public R&D subsidy on private R&D expenditure pp. 1715-1730

Marianna Marino, Stephane Lhuillery, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Davide Sala

Governing sustainability transitions through business model innovation: Towards a systems understanding pp. 1731-1742

Ronan Bolton and Matthew Hannon

The role of pilot and demonstration plants in technology development and innovation policy pp. 1743-1761

Hans Hellsmark, Johan Frishammar, Patrik Söderholm and Håkan Ylinenpää

Essential patents and standard dynamics pp. 1762-1773

Justus Baron, Tim Pohlmann and Knut Blind

The allocation and effectiveness of China’s R&D subsidies - Evidence from listed firms pp. 1774-1789

Philipp Boeing

Which gender gap? Factors affecting researchers’ scientific impact in science and medicine pp. 1790-1817

Catherine Beaudry and Vincent Larivière

Technological acquisitions: The impact of geography on post-acquisition innovative performance pp. 1818-1832

Killian McCarthy and Hendrik Leendert Aalbers

Modelling the dynamics of technological innovation systems pp. 1833-1844

Bob Walrave and Rob Raven

Service regime and innovation clusters: An empirical study from service firms in Taiwan pp. 1845-1857

Yuan-Chieh Chang and Min-Nan Chen

Royalty sharing, effort and invention in universities: Evidence from Portugal and Spain pp. 1858-1872

Pere Arqué-Castells, Rui M. Cartaxo, Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Manuel Godinho

Unique synergies in technology acquisitions pp. 1873-1889

George Chondrakis

The strength of long ties and the weakness of strong ties: Knowledge diffusion through supply chain networks pp. 1890-1906

Yasuyuki Todo, Petr Matous and Hiroyasu Inoue

University–industry collaboration and firms’ R&D effort pp. 1907-1922

Alessandra Scandura

Social innovation research: An emerging area of innovation studies? pp. 1923-1935

Robert P. van der Have and Luis Rubalcaba

Improving the Peer review process: Capturing more information and enabling high-risk/high-return research pp. 1936-1938

Jonathan D. Linton

Worker-level and firm-level effects of a wage subsidy program for highly educated labor: Evidence from Denmark pp. 1939-1943

Ulrich Kaiser and Johan M. Kuhn

Volume 45, issue 8, 2016

Research paradigms and useful inventions in medicine: Patents and licensing by teams of clinical and basic scientists in Academic Medical Centers pp. 1499-1511

Ayfer Ali and Michelle Gittelman

Beneficiary contact and innovation: The relation between contact with patients and medical innovation under different institutional logics pp. 1512-1523

Oscar Llopis and D’Este, Pablo

Boundary-spanning in academic healthcare organisations pp. 1524-1533

Bryn Lander

Organizing the entrepreneurial hospital: Hybridizing the logics of healthcare and innovation pp. 1534-1544

Fiona A. Miller and Martin French

Hospitals as innovators in the health-care system: A literature review and research agenda pp. 1545-1557

Taran Thune and Andrea Mina

Institutional power play in innovation systems: The case of Herceptin® pp. 1558-1569

Piret Kukk, Ellen H.M. Moors and Marko P. Hekkert

The revolution re-visited: Clinical and genetics research paradigms and the productivity paradox in drug discovery pp. 1570-1585

Michelle Gittelman

Dynamics of China’s provincial-level specialization in strategic emerging industries pp. 1586-1603

Prud’homme, Dan

Technological leadership and persistence in product innovation in the Local Area Network industry 1990–1999 pp. 1604-1619

Roberto Fontana and Andrea Vezzulli

Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: An extended concept and framework for analysis pp. 1620-1635

Karoline S. Rogge and Kristin Reichardt

Economic growth, human capital and structural change: A dynamic panel data analysis pp. 1636-1648

Aurora Teixeira and Anabela S.S. Queirós

CO2-reducing innovations and outsourcing: Evidence from photovoltaics and green construction in North-East Italy pp. 1649-1659

Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor and Francesco Rentocchini

Openness and innovation in the US: Collaboration form, idea generation and implementation pp. 1660-1671

John P. Walsh, You-Na Lee and Sadao Nagaoka

Job choice in academia pp. 1672-1683

Jürgen Janger and Klaus Nowotny

The frequency of end-user innovation: A re-estimation of extant findings pp. 1684-1689

Nikolaus Franke, Florian Schirg and Kathrin Reinsberger

Volume 45, issue 7, 2016

Why do patents facilitate trade in technology? Testing the disclosure and appropriation effects pp. 1326-1336

Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Alfons Palangkaraya and Elizabeth Webster

Innovation collaboration and appropriability by knowledge-intensive business services firms pp. 1337-1351

Marcela Miozzo, Panos Desyllas, Hsing-fen Lee and Ian Miles

The paradox of openness revisited: Collaborative innovation and patenting by UK innovators pp. 1352-1361

Ashish Arora, Suma Athreye and Can Huang

Win, lose or draw? The fate of patented inventions pp. 1362-1373

John P. Walsh, You-Na Lee and Taehyun Jung

Used, blocking and sleeping patents: Empirical evidence from a large-scale inventor survey pp. 1374-1385

Salvatore Torrisi, Alfonso Gambardella, Paola Giuri, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl and Myriam Mariani

The effects of university rules on spinoff creation: The case of academia in Italy pp. 1386-1396

Alessandro Muscio, Davide Quaglione and Laura Ramaciotti

Exploring the promises of transdisciplinary research: A quantitative study of two climate research programmes pp. 1397-1409

Stefan P.L. de Jong, Tjerk Wardenaar and Edwin Horlings

Public private partnerships and emerging technologies: A look at nanomedicine for diseases of poverty pp. 1410-1418

Thomas S. Woodson

Innovation through exaptation and its determinants: The role of technological complexity, analogy making & patent scope pp. 1419-1435

Mariano Mastrogiorgio and Victor Gilsing

Do design rules facilitate or complicate architectural innovation in innovation alliance networks? pp. 1436-1448

Erwin Hofman, Johannes I.M. Halman and Bart van Looy

Scientific linkages and firm productivity: Panel data evidence from Taiwanese electronics firms pp. 1449-1459

Jong-Rong Chen, Kamhon Kan and I-Hsuan Tung

Technological proximity and recombinative innovation in the alternative energy field pp. 1460-1473

Jian Cheng Guan and Yan Yan

Inverted-U relationship between R&D intensity and survival: Evidence on scale and complementarity effects in UK data pp. 1474-1492

Mehmet Ugur, Eshref Trushin and Edna Solomon

Volume 45, issue 6, 2016

The acquisition and commercialization of invention in American manufacturing: Incidence and impact pp. 1113-1128

Ashish Arora, Wesley M. Cohen and John P. Walsh

Government-subsidized R&D and firm innovation: Evidence from China pp. 1129-1144

Di Guo, Yan Guo and Kun Jiang

Crowdsourcing ideas: Involving ordinary users in the ideation phase of new product development pp. 1145-1154

Brita Schemmann, Andrea M. Herrmann, Maryse M.H. Chappin and Gaston Heimeriks

Bundling of RAND-committed patents pp. 1155-1164

Anne Layne-Farrar and Michael Salinger

Inventor networks in renewable energies: The influence of the policy mix in Germany pp. 1165-1184

Uwe Cantner, Holger Graf, Johannes Herrmann and Martin Kalthaus

Why new crop technology is not scale-neutral—A critique of the expectations for a crop-based African Green Revolution pp. 1185-1194

Klara Fischer

How a product’s design hierarchy shapes the evolution of technological knowledge—Evidence from patent-citation networks in wind power pp. 1195-1217

Joern Huenteler, Jan Ossenbrink, Tobias S. Schmidt and Volker H. Hoffmann

Towards green growth: How does green innovation affect employment? pp. 1218-1232

Rasi Kunapatarawong and Ester Martínez-Ros

Firms’ innovation benefiting from networking and institutional support: A global analysis of national and firm effects pp. 1233-1246

Thomas Schøtt and Kent Wickstrøm Jensen

Managing the innovators: Organizational and professional commitment among scientists and engineers pp. 1247-1262

Sara Jansen Perry, Emily M. Hunter and Steven C. Currall

The link between R&D, innovation and productivity: Are micro firms different? pp. 1263-1274

Julian Baumann and Alexander Kritikos

Framing the sun: A discursive approach to understanding multi-dimensional interactions within socio-technical transitions through the case of solar electricity in Ontario, Canada pp. 1275-1290

Daniel Rosenbloom, Harris Berton and James Meadowcroft

Training the scientific workforce: Does funding mechanism matter? pp. 1291-1303

Margaret Blume-Kohout and Dadhi Adhikari

Do return requirements increase international knowledge diffusion? Evidence from the Fulbright program pp. 1304-1322

Shulamit Kahn and Megan MacGarvie

Volume 45, issue 5, 2016

Uncovering the reciprocal complementarity between product and process innovation pp. 929-940

Dusana Hullova, Paul Trott and Christopher Don Simms

More labour market flexibility for more innovation? Evidence from employer–employee linked micro data pp. 941-950

Eva Wachsen and Knut Blind

Interdependences in the intrafirm diffusion of technological innovations: Confronting the rational and social accounts of diffusion pp. 951-963

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Jaime Gómez and Sergio Palomas

Growing fast or slow?: Understanding the variety of paths and the speed of early growth of entrepreneurial science-based firms pp. 964-986

Marcela Miozzo and Lori DiVito

Does sector-specific experience matter? The case of European higher education ministers pp. 987-998

Julien Jacqmin and Mathieu Lefebvre

Who becomes a tenured professor, and why? Panel data evidence from German sociology, 1980–2013 pp. 999-1013

Mark Lutter and Martin Schröder

How the founders’ general and specific human capital drives export activities of start-ups pp. 1014-1030

Tobias Stucki

Knowledge integration using product R&D outsourcing in biotechnology pp. 1031-1045

Dzidziso Samuel Kamuriwo and Charles Baden-Fuller

Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital? pp. 1046-1060

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Alberto Marzucchi and Francesco Vona

The two faces of inventions: The relationship between recombination and impact in pharmaceutical biotechnology pp. 1061-1074

S. Keijl, V.A. Gilsing, Joris Knoben and Geert Duysters

Why it pays off to pay us well: The impact of basic research on economic growth and welfare pp. 1075-1090

Klaus Prettner and Katharina Werner

What do patent-based measures tell us about product commercialization? Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry pp. 1091-1102

Stefan Wagner and Simon Wakeman

Where do spinouts come from? The role of technology relatedness and institutional context pp. 1103-1112

Sepideh Yeganegi, André O. Laplume, Parshotam Dass and Cam-Loi Huynh

Volume 45, issue 4, 2016

STI and DUI innovation modes: Scientific-technological and context-specific nuances pp. 747-756

Mario Davide Parrilli and Henar Alcalde Heras

Impacts of personality traits on consumer innovation success pp. 757-769

Ruth Maria Stock, Eric von Hippel and Nils Lennart Gillert

Does country-level R&D efficiency benefit from the collaboration network structure? pp. 770-784

JianCheng Guan, KaiRui Zuo, KaiHua Chen and Richard C.M. Yam

The productivity of science & engineering PhD students hired from supervisors’ networks pp. 785-796

Stefano Baruffaldi, Fabiana Visentin and Annamaria Conti

The effectiveness of R&D subsidies: A meta-regression analysis of the evaluation literature pp. 797-815

Chris Dimos and Geoff Pugh

In-house versus external basic research and first-to-market innovations pp. 816-829

Dolores Añón Higón

Urban innovation, regional externalities of foreign direct investment and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 830-843

Lutao Ning, Fan Wang and Jian Li

Related and unrelated variety as regional drivers of enterprise productivity and innovation: A multilevel study pp. 844-856

Jarle Aarstad, Olav A. Kvitastein and Stig-Erik Jakobsen

Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovation and public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry pp. 857-868

Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg and Guido Buenstorf

Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit? pp. 869-883

Mathias Beck, Cindy Lopes-Bento and Andrea Schenker-Wicki

Improving the public value of science: A typology to inform discussion, design and implementation of research pp. 884-895

Elizabeth C. McNie, Adam Parris and Daniel Sarewitz

The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014) pp. 896-913

Frank W. Geels, Florian Kern, Gerhard Fuchs, Nele Hinderer, Gregor Kungl, Josephine Mylan, Mario Neukirch and Sandra Wassermann

The impact of the timing of patents on innovation performance pp. 914-928

Bongsun Kim, Eonsoo Kim, Douglas J. Miller and Joseph T. Mahoney

Volume 45, issue 3, 2016

The effect of innovation activities on innovation outputs in the Brazilian industry: Market-orientation vs. technology-acquisition strategies pp. 577-592

Alejandro Germán Frank, Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia, José Luis Duarte Ribeiro and Lindomar Subtil de Oliveira

Evaluating research: A multidisciplinary approach to assessing research practice and quality pp. 593-603

Pär Mårtensson, Uno Fors, Sven-Bertil Wallin, Udo Zander and Gunnar H Nilsson

Overcoming the liability of newness: Entrepreneurial action and the emergence of China's private solar photovoltaic firms pp. 604-617

Wei Zhang and Steven White

A modular governance architecture in-the-making: How transnational standard-setters govern sustainability transitions pp. 618-633

Stephan Manning and Juliane Reinecke

R&D and non-linear productivity growth pp. 634-646

d'Artis Kancs and Boriss Siliverstovs

How predictable is technological progress? pp. 647-665

J. Farmer and François Lafond

A triple helix model of medical innovation: Supply, demand, and technological capabilities in terms of Medical Subject Headings pp. 666-681

Alexander M. Petersen, Daniele Rotolo and Loet Leydesdorff

Does it pay to stand on the shoulders of giants? An analysis of the inventions of star inventors in the biotechnology sector pp. 682-698

Jan Hohberger

Knowledge spillovers in the supply chain: Evidence from the high tech sectors pp. 699-706

Olov H.D. Isaksson, Markus Simeth and Ralf W. Seifert

Measuring technological novelty with patent-based indicators pp. 707-723

Dennis Verhoeven, Jurriën Bakker and Reinhilde Veugelers

Gains from others’ losses: Technology trajectories and the global division of firms pp. 724-745

Chia-Hsuan Yang, Rebecca Nugent and Erica R.H. Fuchs

Volume 45, issue 2, 2016

The participation of new technology-based firms in EU-funded R&D partnerships: The role of venture capital pp. 361-375

Massimo G. Colombo, D’Adda, Diego and Lorenzo H. Pirelli

Learning-by-failing. An empirical exercise on CIS data pp. 376-386

Riccardo Leoncini

Innovation and firm growth: Does firm age play a role? pp. 387-400

Alex Coad, Agustí Segarra and Mercedes Teruel

Towards understanding variety in knowledge intensive business services by distinguishing their knowledge bases pp. 401-413

Katia Pina and Bruce S. Tether

Connecting demand and supply: The role of intermediation in public procurement of innovation pp. 414-426

Jakob Edler and Jillian Yeow

Patterns of innovation and organizational demography in emerging sustainable fields: An analysis of the chemical sector pp. 427-441

Marianna Epicoco

The impact of R&D subsidies on firm innovation pp. 442-457

Raffaello Bronzini and Paolo Piselli

Debt and communications technology diffusion: Retrospective evidence pp. 458-474

Sumit K Majumdar

Constraining entrepreneurial development: A knowledge-based view of social networks among academic entrepreneurs pp. 475-490

Christopher S. Hayter

Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (Where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance? pp. 491-506

Nigel Driffield, James H. Love and Yong Yang

Identifying valuable users as informants for innovation processes: Comparing the search efficiency of pyramiding and screening pp. 507-516

Christoph S. Stockstrom, René Chester Goduscheit, Christian Lüthje and Jacob Høj Jørgensen

The role of diversification profiles and dyadic characteristics in the formation of technological alliances: Differences between exploitation and exploration in a low-tech industry pp. 517-532

Sorin Krammer

Patenting rationales of academic entrepreneurs in weak and strong organizational regimes pp. 533-545

Sascha G. Walter, Arne Schmidt and Achim Walter

Meso-level factors in technological transitions: The development of TD-SCDMA in China pp. 546-559

Marina Yue Zhang

Agency models in different stages of CEO tenure: The effects of stock options and board independence on R&D investment pp. 560-575

Fabio Zona

Volume 45, issue 1, 2016

Knowledge, Proximity and R&D Exodus pp. 8-26

Grigorios Livanis and Anna Lamin

Internal or external spillovers—Which kind of knowledge is more likely to flow within or across technologies pp. 27-41

Benedikt Battke, Tobias S. Schmidt, Stephan Stollenwerk and Volker H. Hoffmann

Retaining winners: Can policy boost high-growth entrepreneurship? pp. 42-55

Erkko Autio and Heikki Rannikko

Collaboration patterns and patenting: Exploring gender distinctions pp. 56-67

Yu Meng

Knowledge creation in collaboration networks: Effects of tie configuration pp. 68-80

Jian Wang

Mapping the technological landscape: Measuring technology distance, technological footprints, and technology evolution pp. 81-96

Barak S. Aharonson and Melissa A. Schilling

Exploitative and exploratory innovations in knowledge network and collaboration network: A patent analysis in the technological field of nano-energy pp. 97-112

Jiancheng Guan and Na Liu

Technological diversification, core-technology competence, and firm growth pp. 113-124

Jungho Kim, Chang-Yang Lee and Yunok Cho

Where and how to search? Search paths in open innovation pp. 125-136

Henry Lopez-Vega, Fredrik Tell and Wim Vanhaverbeke

Science and Technology Parks and cooperation for innovation: Empirical evidence from Spain pp. 137-147

Ángela Rocío Vásquez-Urriago, Andrés Barge-Gil and Aurelia Modrego Rico

Bridging science and technology through academic–industry partnerships pp. 148-158

Sen Chai and Willy Shih

China's R&D explosion—Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time pp. 159-176

Philipp Boeing, Elisabeth Mueller and Philipp Sandner

Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation pp. 177-194

Riccardo Crescenzi, Max Nathan and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Australia's Cooperative Research Centre Program: A transaction cost theory perspective pp. 195-204

Elisabeth Sinnewe, Michael B. Charles and Robyn Keast

Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for sustainability transitions pp. 205-217

Paula Kivimaa and Florian Kern

The effect of patent litigation and patent assertion entities on entrepreneurial activity pp. 218-231

Stephen Kiebzak, Greg Rafert and Catherine E. Tucker

Technological regimes and firm survival pp. 232-243

Jungho Kim and Chang-Yang Lee

Commercializing user innovations by vertical diversification: The user–manufacturer innovator pp. 244-259

Joern Block, Joachim Henkel, Tim G. Schweisfurth and Annika Stiegler

Research assessment in the UK and Italy: Costly and difficult, but probably worth it (at least for a while) pp. 260-271

Aldo Geuna and Matteo Piolatto

Acquisitions of start-ups by incumbent businesses pp. 272-290

Martin Andersson and Jing Xiao

When does knowledge acquisition in R&D alliances increase new product development? The moderating roles of technological relatedness and product-market competition pp. 291-302

Hans T.W. Frankort

Venture capital investments and the technological performance of portfolio firms pp. 303-318

Henry Lahr and Andrea Mina

The roles and effectiveness of design in new product development: A study of Irish manufacturers pp. 319-329

Stephen Roper, Pietro Micheli, James H. Love and Priit Vahter

Institutional dynamics and technology legitimacy – A framework and a case study on biogas technology pp. 330-344

Jochen Markard, Steffen Wirth and Bernhard Truffer

Inventing while you work: Knowledge, non-R&D learning and innovation pp. 345-359

You-Na Lee and John P. Walsh