Research Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	396
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	384
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	346
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	213
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	212
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	198
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	187
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	170
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	167
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	155
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	146
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	133
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	122
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	106
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	104
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	103
Editorial Board	98
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	98
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	96
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	96
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	95
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’	95
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	87
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	83
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	80

Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	77
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	72
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	68
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	67
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	66
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	65
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	65
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	64
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	63
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Economic complexity and the green economy	62
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	61
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	60
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	60
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The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	57
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	57
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The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	56
Are ideas being fished out?	56
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	55
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	55
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	53
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	53
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	53
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	52
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	51
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	50
Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises	50
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	50
Industrial policy and catching-up: State-owned enterprises in a North–South agent-based model	50
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	50
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	49
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	49
Deliberate exploratory search in technology innovation: Discovering and developing need-solution pairs	49
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	49
A simple measure of economic complexity	49
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	49
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	49
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	49
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	48
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	48
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	48
Digitalization and resilience	48
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	47

Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	47
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	47
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	46
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	46
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	46
Editorial Board	45
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	45
Women's empowerment and participation in innovation: Evidence from the one-child policy in China	45
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	44
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	44
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	44
Unexpectedness in medical research	43
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	43
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	43
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	43
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	42
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	42
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	42
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	42
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	42
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	42
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	41
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	41
Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance	40
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	40
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	40
Science knowledge localizes	40
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	40
Editorial Board	40
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	40
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	40
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	40
The subjective expected utility approach and a framework for defining project risk in terms of novelty and feasibility – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in scie	39
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	39
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	39
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	39
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	39
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	38
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	38
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	37
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	37
Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters	37
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	37
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	36
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	36
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	36
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	35
Risk in science: The socialization of risk-taking in early-career training	35
The fine print of collaboration: How contractual provisions govern IP and disclosure in publicly funded research	35
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	35
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	34
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	34
Editorial Board	34
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	34
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	34
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	33
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	33
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	33
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	33
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	33
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	33
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	32
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	32
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	32
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	32
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	32
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	31
The effects of public procurement requirements and voluntary standards on environmental product innovation	31
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	31
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	31
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	31
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	31
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	30
The paradox of competition: How funding models could undermine the uptake of data sharing practices	30
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Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	30
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	30
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	30
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	29
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	29

Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	29
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	29
Variety, complexity and economic development	28
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	28
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	28
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	28
Building entrepreneurial infrastructure: Discursive strategies and the development of China's venture financing system	28
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	27
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	27
Postdoctoral mobility and returnees' careers in Italian academia	27
Knowledge spillover of innovation: Entrepreneurial difference	27
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	26
The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight	26
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Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	26
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Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	26
Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation	25
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	25
Retrovation typology: Exploiting and exploring past knowledge for nostalgic and sustainable innovation	25
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	25
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	24
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	24
Global value chains and domestic innovation	24
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	24
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	24
The effects of investments in research infrastructures of higher education institutes: Evidence from Poland and Czechia	24
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	23
CEO narcissism, subsidiary top management team international diversity, and radical digital innovation in multinational enterprises	23
Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle	23
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D	23
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	23
Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams: A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers	23
Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents	23
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	22
Genealogical academic inbreeding and its effect on performance: Evidence for scientists at Dutch universities (1815–1943)	22
Are patent offices substitutes?	22
Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants	22
Staggered boards and product innovations: Evidence from Massachusetts State Bill HB 5640	22
Configuration of inclusive innovation systems: Function, agents and capabilities	22
Servitization as a strategy for diffusing radical technologies: An analysis of U.S. top corporate R&D investors	22
“Talk social sciences to me”: Enhancing the dissemination of social sciences through mass media engagement	22
Health and creativity: Evidence from corporate innovation	22
Firm training, automation, and wages: International worker-level evidence	21
Organizing transformative innovation: Advancing an organizational research agenda within Transformative Innovation Policy	21
Knowledge and behavioral spillovers from academic entrepreneurs: Preliminary evidence from the NSF I-corps regional program	21
Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector	21
Do weak intellectual property rights regimes affect foreign multinational firms' technology exploration? The moderating role of function-related and location-related experience	21
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents	21
Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry	21
A new approach to measuring invention commercialization: An application to the SBIR program	21
The policy implications of economic complexity	21
A helping hand from the government? How public research funding affects academic output in less-prestigious universities in China	20
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Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means	20
The political extremes and innovation: How support for extreme parties shapes overall and green scientific research and technological innovation in Europe	20
Sex, science, and society	20
Mapping Markush	20
Dominance of leading business schools in top journals: Insights for increasing institutional representation	20
Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing	19
Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review	19
The diffusion of scientific discoveries in government laboratories: The role of patents filed by government scientists	19
Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage	19
A framework and databases for measuring entrepreneurial ecosystems	19
Workforce sleep and corporate innovation	19
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	19
Technology transfer challenges in asymmetric alliances between high-technology and low-technology firms	19
Do R&D tax credits impact pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence from a synthetic control approach	19
Anticipatory innovation of professional services: The case of auditing and artificial intelligence	19
Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance	19
Platform design and governance in industrial markets: Charting the meta-organizational logic	18
Why do firms publish? A systematic literature review and a conceptual framework	18
Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective	18
The impact of geotargeting on household information acquisition: Evidence from a Google News redesign	18
Who uses AI in research, and for what? Large-scale survey evidence from Germany	18
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Digital activism to achieve meaningful institutional change: A bricolage of crowdsourcing, social media, and data analytics	18
Allocating time on scientific platforms in outer space: Evidence from James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 1-3 general observer programs	18
Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation	18
Tracing entrepreneurial spillovers: Evidence from the U.S. State Small Business Credit initiative and Kickstarter	17
Technologically related diversification: One size does not fit all European regions	17
Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation	17
Entrepreneurial innovativeness: When too little or too much agglomeration hurts	17
Robots and the regionalization of global value chains	17
Heterogeneous firms and cluster externalities: how asymmetric effects at the firm level affect cluster productivity	17
Technology transfer from national/federal labs and public research institutes: Managerial and policy implications	17
Avengers assemble! When digital piracy increases box office demand	17
Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent	17
National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets	17
Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms' patent litigation	17
The gender gap in PhD entrepreneurship: Why balancing employment in academia really matters	17
FDI dominance and the scope for a modern domestic industry	16
Geographic isolation, trade secrecy, and innovation	16
Institutional logics and founders' identity orientation: Why academic entrepreneurs aspire lower venture growth	16