Papers in Innovation Studies

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2026/12: Multi-View Representation Learning for Regional Opportunity Spaces and Industrial Path Development

Philipp Stark, Alexandros Sopasakis, Ola Hall and Markus Grillitsch

2026/11: Russia’s IT-Developer Exodus after the Ukraine Invasion: The Effects on ICT-Exports, Software Activity, and International Collaboration in the Destination Countries

Torben Schubert

2026/10: Unpacking green discontent: Socio-economic marginalisation and experiences of misrecognition in the German heating transition

Christina Wolf and Aleksandra Peeroo

2026/9: Rethinking Circular Economy from Below: Informality, Material Flows, and Hybrid Institutions in Maun, Botswana

Sara Hataka and Ju Liu

2026/8: ‘Agents of Justice’ and Opportunity Spaces: An analysis of energy transitions in Hamburg and Mumbai

Stuti Haldar, Bleta Arifi, Markus Grillitsch, Amir Bazaz and Philipp Späth

2026/7: When Global Pipelines Generate Novelty: Evidence from AstraZeneca’s International Academic Collaborations

Claudio Fassio, Pauline Mattsson, Aldo Geuna and Ioana Igna

2026/6: The role of institutions for multi-system interaction: Insights from the case of agrivoltaics in Germany

Camilla Chlebna and Lucie Maruejols

2026/5: The Differential Economic Effects of Private Universities in Urban and Rural Regions

Bastian Krieger, Henning Kroll, Torben Schubert, Linus Strecke and Cecilia Garcia Chavez

2026/4: Bargaining with the 'Empire': Strategic subordination and dollar dependence in India's energy transition

Stuti Haldar and Amir Bazaz

2026/3: Tracing local well-being through time and space: From an operationalization to a research agenda

Alvaro von Borries, Markus Grillitsch and Ola Hall

2026/2: A 'Justice Doughnut' approach to reconciling directionality and subsidiarity in regional development: Evidence from green transition in North Sweden

Stuti Haldar, Rhiannon Pugh and Markus Grillitsch

2026/1: Knowledge, Power and the Governance of Food System Transformation

Iryna Fil Kristensen, Markus Grillitsch, Rhiannon Pugh, Lena Krautscheid and Kevin Morgan

2025/15: Legitimacy of Transitions – Transitions of Legitimacy: Uncovering institutionalization dynamics in sustainability transitions

Tamara Schnell

2025/14: Varieties of innovation and transition pathways in rural areas: A theoretical perspective to technology-, community-, and nature-based development

Markus Grillitsch, Rhiannon Pugh, Michal Miedzinski and Simone Sasso

2025/13: Inclusive innovation within developmental university approaches: Insights towards (post) IPR settings in Bolivia

Carlos Acevedo, Lena Trojer and Helene Vogelmann

2025/12: Knowledge for policy in a transformative age: Exploring the structural, operational and practice-oriented characteristics of innovation policy research organisations

Emily Wise, James Wilson and Sylvia Schwaag Serger

2025/11: Unpacking the selection environment: Directionality shaped by emerging valuation ecosystems

Max Hoos, Bernhard Truffer and Jarno Hoekman

2025/10: 'Power' struggles in Mumbai: Informality, institutional work, and the quest for energy justice

Stuti Haldar, Ananya Peddibhotla and Amir Bazaz

2025/9: Arenas of Change: Towards sustainable material flows

Markus Grillitsch, Jonathan Friedrich, Fredrik Nilsson, Sylvia Schwaag-Serger, Vitor Souza and Linda Stihl

2025/8: Tracking the public perception of heat pumps: A sentiment analysis of German news articles

Lukas Kriesch and Sebastian Losacker

2025/7: Unlocking Firm Innovation in Peripheral Regions: The Critical Role of Local Psychological Openness

Markus Grillitsch, Sam Tavassoli and Martin Obschonka

2025/6: A Nation of Contrast? The Geography of Personality in Sweden, Regional Polarization, and a Research Agenda

Martin Obschonka, Markus Grillitsch, Nicklas Guldåker, Daniel Rauhut, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter and Samuel D. Gosling

2025/5: Local Agency on the Edge: Regional Development, Human Wellbeing and Social Resilience

Markus Grillitsch, Francisco Cobos-Cabral and Andrej Horvat

2025/4: A geolocated dataset of German news articles

Lukas Kriesch and Sebastian Losacker

2025/3: Cultivating social innovation for agri-food sustainability transformations: A literature review

Machteld Catharina Simoens, Caroline Hélène Dabard, Jonathan Friedrich, Juan Garzon and Felix Zoll

2025/2: Exploring Chilean student perceptions of Opportunity entrepreneurship?

Karen Corbett-Lagos and Vinicius Muraro

2025/1: Global circular networks and couplings: Exploring the global architecture of the circular economy

Jonathan Friedrich, Linda Stihl, Johan Miörner, Vitor Souza, Fredrik Nilsson and Markus Grillitsch

2024/22: Many roads to justice: A longitudinal analysis of global scholarship on energy transitions

Ritaj Kalaskar and Stuti Haldar

2024/21: Tracking pathways towards a bioeconomy: a sequence analysis of regional patent portfolios

Sebastian Losacker, Nicolas Befort, Lukas Kriesch and Stephane Lhuillery

2024/20: Strategic regional path development? Place-based industry development in nation-states’ pursuit of prosperity, autonomy, and sustainability

Simon Baumgartinger-Seiringer, Richard Shearmur, David Doloreux and Amélie Gauthier

2024/19: Varieties of extra-regional relations and local agency: A Framework for tailored regional development work

Markus Grillitsch and Trond Nilsen

2024/18: Managing Digital Transformation for Innovation: A Multi-Level and Multi-Dimensional Integrated Model for Managers

Ju Liu and Olli Vigren

2024/17: Reimagining Diffusion Eight building blocks for reconceptualising the generalisation of innovation into society

Douglas K. R. Robinson, Susana Borrás and Wouter P.C. Boon

2024/16: Not all twins are identical: the digital layer of “twin” transition market applications

Milad Abbasiharofteh and Lukas Kriesch

2024/15: Building regional (transformative) resilience by regional innovation policy?

Huiwen Gong and Robert Hassink

2024/14: Measuring the Causal Economic Effects of Scientific Research — Evidence from the Staggered Foundation of the SENAI Innovation Institutes in Brazil

Torben Schubert, Denilton Darold and Markus Will

2024/13: Twenty years of regional innovation studies: From local-global to agency-structure

Markus Grillitsch and Björn Asheim

2024/12: Artificial intelligence for climate change: a patent analysis in the manufacturing sector

Matteo Podrecca, Giovanna Culot, Sam Tavassoli and Guido Orzes

2024/11: Acqui-hiring and deep-tech ventures: Evidence from Sweden

Jing Xiao and Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand

2024/10: Municipalities’ role in regional development: Navigating subsidiarity, place-based approaches, and geographical variation

Markus Grillitsch, Linda Stihl and Brita Hermelin

2024/9: Circular transitions in global production networks? A multi-scalar approach to anticipating socio-economic and socio-environmental effects of ‘x-shoring’

Jonathan Friedrich, Linda Stihl and Markus Grillitsch

2024/8: A global patent dataset for the bioeconomy

Lukas Kriesch and Sebastian Losacker

2024/7: A human-centric approach to energy justice: Embedding agency and capabilities in transitions discourse

Stuti Haldar, Markus Grillitsch and Amir Bazaz

2024/6: The rescaling of institutional rationalities for shaping opportunity spaces

Andrea Käsbohrer, Markus Grillitsch and Hans-Martin Zademach

2024/5: Untangling regional opportunity spaces: The role of narratives and place leadership

Max Roessler, Markus Grillitsch, Johan Miörner and Daniel Schiller

2024/4: Political leaders as agents in regional development

Giuseppe Calignano and Trond Nilsen

2024/3: Rules of attraction: Networks of innovation policy makers in the EU

Mart Laatsit and Ron Boschma

2024/2: ‘Making’ in India: Understanding Makerspaces and Fablabs in the Indian Informal Innovation Context

Gautam Sharma

2024/1: Innovation policy as an instrument for driving transformation – lessons from practice

Sofia Avdeitchikova and Sylvia Schwaag Serger

2023/14: Agency and Structure in Regional Development: In Search of a Social Science Research Programme

Markus Grillitsch and Markku Sotarauta