Research Policy

Papers
(The H4-Index of Research Policy is 51. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data327
War and Transition278
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector235
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance183
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK177
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures157
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI142
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity137
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists137
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software122
Editorial Board122
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis118
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?115
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?111
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding100
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)95
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems93
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure91
The jurisdiction of the subjective expected utility (SEU) approach to risk-taking in science – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’89
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation86
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation79
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?78
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design77
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas75
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment72
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents72
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality71
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism70
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement70
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms70
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation69
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development69
Are intellectual property rights working for society?69
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level68
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments68
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies67
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment66
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation66
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance65
Economic complexity and the green economy64
Entrepreneurship in Cities64
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance64
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions64
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading63
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements63
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms62
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents57
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs55
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors52
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting51
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar51
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