Research Policy

Article	Citations
War and Transition	339
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	283
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	260
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	200
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	184
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	165
Editorial Board	147
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	146
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	142
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	130
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	125
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	123
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	112
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	106
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	99
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	98
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	93
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	89
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’	83
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	80
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	80
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 design	77
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	75
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	74

The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	74
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	74
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	73
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	72
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	71
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	71
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	70
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	70
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	70
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	69
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	69
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	68
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	68
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	68
Entrepreneurship in Cities	68
Economic complexity and the green economy	65
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	63
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	59
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	56
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	56
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	55
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	53
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	53
Editorial Board	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	50
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	50
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	50
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	49
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	48
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	48
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	48
Are ideas being fished out?	47
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	47
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	46
The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms	46
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	46
Editorial Board	45
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	45
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	44
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	44
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	44
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	43
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	43
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	43
Research funding and collaboration	43
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	43
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	42
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	42
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	42

Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	42
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	42
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	41
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	41
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	41
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	41
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	41
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	40
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	40
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	40
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	39
Digitalization and resilience	39
A simple measure of economic complexity	39
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	38
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	38
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	38
Patent Toxicity	38
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	38
Editorial Board	37
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	37
Unexpectedness in medical research	37
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	36
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	36
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	36
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	36
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	36
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	35
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	35
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	35
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	35
Editorial Board	34
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	34
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	34
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	34
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	33
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	33
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	33
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	33
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	33
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	33
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	32
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	32
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	32
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	32
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	32
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	32
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	32
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	32
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	31
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	31
The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources	31
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	31
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	31
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	31
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	30
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	30
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	30
Editorial Board	30
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	30
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	30
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	30
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	30
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	30
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	30
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	30
Editorial Board	30
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	29
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	29
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	29
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	29
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	29
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	29
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	29
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	29
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	29
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	29
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	28
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	28
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	28
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	28

Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	28
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	28
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	28
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	28
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	28
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	28
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	27
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	27
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	27
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	27
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	27
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	27
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	27
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	27
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	26
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	26
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	26
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	26
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	26
Variety, complexity and economic development	26
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	26
Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity	26
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	25
Editorial Board	25
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	25
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
Editorial Board	25
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	25
CEO narcissism, subsidiary top management team international diversity, and radical digital innovation in multinational enterprises	25
Editorial Board	25
Editorial Board	25
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	25
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	25
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	24
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	24
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	24
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	24
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	24
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D	23
Genealogical academic inbreeding and its effect on performance: Evidence for scientists at Dutch universities (1815–1943)	23
Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation	23
Global value chains and domestic innovation	23
Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents	23
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents	23
Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle	22
Staggered boards and product innovations: Evidence from Massachusetts State Bill HB 5640	22
Are patent offices substitutes?	22
Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams: A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers	22
The policy implications of economic complexity	22
Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector	22
Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants	22
Exploring docility: A behavioral approach to interventions in business incubation	22
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	22
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany	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
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	22
Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review	21
Dominance of leading business schools in top journals: Insights for increasing institutional representation	21
Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means	21
A framework and databases for measuring entrepreneurial ecosystems	21
Editorial Board	21
Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry	21
Workforce sleep and corporate innovation	21
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	21
The diffusion of scientific discoveries in government laboratories: The role of patents filed by government scientists	20
Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance	20
Do R&D tax credits impact pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence from a synthetic control approach	20
Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation	20
Technological diversity of patent applications and decision pendency	20
Mapping Markush	20
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	19
Anticipatory innovation of professional services: The case of auditing and artificial intelligence	19
A helping hand from the government? How public research funding affects academic output in less-prestigious universities in China	19
The impact of geotargeting on household information acquisition: Evidence from a Google News redesign	19
Coworking spaces: An overview and research agenda	19
Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing	19
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	19
Technology transfer challenges in asymmetric alliances between high-technology and low-technology firms	19
Exploring collective consumer innovation in health care: Cases and formal modeling	19
Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage	19
Editorial Board	18
Techno-economic transformation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union – A neo-Schumpeterian perspective	18
Allocating time on scientific platforms in outer space: Evidence from James Webb Space Telescope Cycle 1-3 general observer programs	18
Digital activism to achieve meaningful institutional change: A bricolage of crowdsourcing, social media, and data analytics	18
The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes	18
Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms' patent litigation	18
Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation	18
Platform design and governance in industrial markets: Charting the meta-organizational logic	18
The gender gap in PhD entrepreneurship: Why balancing employment in academia really matters	18
Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent	18
National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets	18
Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective	18
Heterogeneous firms and cluster externalities: how asymmetric effects at the firm level affect cluster productivity	18
Putting the watering can away –Towards a targeted (problem-oriented) cluster policy framework	18