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2015: Opening the Black Box of Energy Security: A Study of Conceptions of Electricity Security in the UK

Emily Cox

2015: Experiments in Climate Governance. Lessons from a Systematic Review of Case Studies in Transition Research

Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hildén, Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan and Jens Newig

2015: Social network and private provision of public goods

Bulat Sanditov and Saurabh Arora

2015: Explaining Variation in Medical Innovation: The Case of Vaccines, and the HIV AIDS effort

Ohid Yaqub

2015: Barriers to Innovation: Can Firm Age Help Lower Them?

Gabriele Pellegrino

2015: Services in Developing Economies: A new chance for catching-up?

Gisela Di Meglio, Jorge Gallego, Andrés Maroto and Maria Savona

2015: Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies

Ben Martin

2015: Institutional Innovation in the Management of Pro-Poor Energy Access in East Africa

Lorenz Gollwitzer, David Ockwell and Adrian Ely

2015: The Green Entrepreneurial State

Mariana Mazzucato

2015: Research Assessment in the UK and Italy: Costly and Difficult, But Probably Worth it (At Least For a While)

Aldo Geuna and Matteo Piolatto

2015: The Rise of Mission-Oriented State Investment Banks: The Cases of Germany’s KfW and Brazil’s BNDES

Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano Penna

2015: From Market Fixing to Market-Creating: A New Framework for Economic Policy

Mariana Mazzucato

2015: Do academics doubt their own research?

Lee Stapleton

2015: Quantitative Analysis of Technology Futures: A review of Techniques, Uses and Characteristics

Tommaso Ciarli, Alex Coad and Ismael Rafols

2015: Accelerating the Cleantech Revolution: Exploring the Financial MobilisationFunctions of Institutional Innovation Intermediaries

Friedemann Polzin, Paschen von Flotow and Laurens Klerkx

2015: What is a Complex Innovation System?

J. Sylvan Katz

2015: When Linder Meets Hirschman: Inter-Industry Linkages and Global Value Chains in Business Services

Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona

2015: Global Structural Change And Value Chains In Services: A Reappraisal

Maria Savona

2015: Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories inGermany And the UK: From ‘Regimes’ to ‘Democracies’ in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities

Phil Johnstone and Andy Stirling

2015: Employment Protection Legislation and Firm Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Anders Bornhal, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Niklas Rudholm

2015: Do Green Jobs Differ from Non-Green Jobs in Terms of Skills and Human Capital?

Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Francesco Vona and Alberto Marzucchi

2015: Unpacking Big Systems - Natural Language Processing meets Network Analysis. A Study of Smart Grid Development in Denmark

Roman Jurowetzki

2015: Network (Mis)Alignment, Technology Policy and Innovation: The Tale of Two Brazilian Cities

Janaina Pamplona da Costa

2015: Socio-technical transitions and policy change - Advocacy coalitions in Swiss energy policy

Jochen Markard, Marco Suter and Karin Ingold

2015: Going Beyond Instrument Interactions: Towards a More Comprehensive Policy Mix Conceptualization for Environmental Technological Change

Karoline S. Rogge and Kristin Reichardt

2015: Journal Portfolio Analysis for Countries, Cities, and Organizations: Maps and Comparisons?

Loet Leydesdorff, Gaston Heimeriks and Daniele Rotolo

2015: Research portfolios in science policy: moving from financial returns to societal benefits

Matthew L. Wallace and Ismael Rafols

2015: International Careers of Researchers in Biomedical Sciences: A Comparison of the US and the UK

Cornelia Lawson, Aldo Geuna, Rodrigo Kataishi, Manuel Toselli and Ana Fernández-Zubieta

2015: Estimating Direct Rebound Effects for Personal Automotive Travel in Great Britain

Lee Stapleton, Steve Sorrell and Tim Schwanen

2015: Exploring the Role of Servitization to Overcome Barriers for Innovative Energy Efficiency Technologies – The Case of Public LED Street Lighting in German Municipalities

Friedemann Polzin, Paschen von Flotow and Colin Nolden

2015: What is an emerging technology?

Daniele Rotolo, Diana Hicks and Ben Martin

2015: High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results

Fabiana Moreno and Alex Coad

2015: The Effect of Demand-Driven Structural Transformations on Growth and Technological Change

André Lorentz, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona and Marco Valente

2015: SiSOB Data Extraction and Codification: A Tool to Analyse Scientific Careers

Aldo Geuna, Rodrigo Kataishi, Manuel Toselli, Eduardo Guzmán, Cornelia Lawson, Ana Fernandez-Zubieta and Beatriz Barros

2015: Creative Destruction or Mere Niche Creation? Innovation Policy Mixes for Sustainability Transitions

Paula Kivimaa and Florian Kern

2015: Moving Out Of Academic Research: Why Scientists Stop Doing Research?

Aldo Geuna and Sotaro Shibayama

2015: Innovative Procurement Frameworks for Energy Performance Contracting in the UK Public Sector

Friedemann Polzin, Steve Sorrell and Colin Nolden

2014: From Fuel Poverty to Energy Vulnerability: The Importance of Services, Needs and Practices

Stefan Bouzarovski, Saska Petrova and Sergio Tirado-Herrero

2014: Towards Innovation Democracy? Participation, Responsibility and Precaution in Innovation Governance

Andy Stirling

2014: Exploring and yet failing less: Learning from exploration, exploitation and human capital in R&D

Pablo D’Este, Alberto Marzucchi and Francesco Rentocchini

2014: Reducing energy demand: An overview of issues, challenges and approaches

Steve Sorrell

2014: Beyond market failures: The market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks

Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano Penna

2014: Distinguishing patterns of learning and incusion through patterns of network formation in developing agricultural clusters

Matias Ramirez, Paloma Bernal, Ian Clarke and Ivan Hernandez

2014: What is technology? Six definitions and two pathologies

Paul Nightingale

2014: That was then, this is now: Skills and Routinization in the 2000s

Davide Consoli, Francesco Vona and Francesco Rentocchini

2014: How satisfied are the self-employed? A life domain view

Martin Binder and Alex Coad

2014: Energy substitution, technical change and rebound effects

Steve Sorrell

2014: Taste and Power: the flavouring industry and flavour additive regulation

Patrick van Zwanenberg and Erik Millstone

2014: Matching MEDLINE/PubMed Data with Web of Science (WOS): A Routine in R language

Daniele Rotolo and Loet Leydesdorff

2014: Innovation as Growth Policy: the challenge for Europe

Mariana Mazzucato and Carlota Perez

2014: Developing capabilities in the seed industry: which direction to follow?

Anabel Marin, Lilia Stubrin and Patrick van Zwanenberg

2014: Multicriteria Mapping Manual: Version 1.0

Andy Stirling and Josie Coburn

2014: Scientometric Mapping as a Strategic Intelligence Tool for the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Daniele Rotolo, Ismael Rafols, Michael Hopkins and Loet Leydesdorff

2014: Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy

Jose Garcia-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino and Maria Savona

2014: Community-based digital fabrication workshops: A review of the research literature

Sabine Hielscher and Adrian Smith

2014: Standing in the way by standing in the middle: The case of state-owned natural gas intermediaries in Bulgaria

Ralitsa Petrova Hiteva and Tomas Maltby

2014: From Sustainability to Transformation: Dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability

Andy Stirling

2014: Determinants of Patent Citations in Biotechnology: An Analysis of Patent Influence Across the Industrial and Organizational Boundaries

Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Daniele Rotolo and Vito Albino

2014: Don't Stop Me Now: Barriers to innovation and firm productivity

Alex Coad, Maria Savona and Gabriele Pellegrino

2014: Transforming Power: social science and the politics of energy choices

Andy Stirling

2014: From laggard to leader: Explaining offshore wind developments in the UK

Florian Kern, Adrian Smith, Chris Shaw, Rob Raven and Bram Verhees

2014: Productivity in services twenty years on. A review of conceptual and measurement issues and a way forward

Nicola Grassano and Maria Savona