Research Policy

Article	Citations
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	327
War and Transition	278
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	235
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	183
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	177
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	157
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	142
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	137
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	137
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	122
Editorial Board	122
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	118
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 crowdfunding	100
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 systems	93
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	91
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 innovation	86
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	79
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
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	72

Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	72
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	71
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	70
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	70
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement	70
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	69
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	69
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	69
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	68
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	68
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	67
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	66
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	66
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	65
Entrepreneurship in Cities	64
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	64
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	64
Economic complexity and the green economy	64
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	63
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	63
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	62
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	57
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	52
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	51
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	51
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	50
Editorial Board	50
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	49
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	49
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	49
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	49
Are ideas being fished out?	48
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	47
The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms	47
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	46
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	46
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	45
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	45
Editorial Board	44
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	44
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	43
Research funding and collaboration	43
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	43
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	43
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	42
A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App	42
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	41
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	41
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	40

Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	40
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	40
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	40
Social movements and free innovation	40
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	39
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	39
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	39
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	39
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	39
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	39
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	39
Does greater diversification increase individual productivity? The moderating effect of attention allocation	39
A simple measure of economic complexity	38
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	38
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	38
Digitalization and resilience	38
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	37
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	37
Unexpectedness in medical research	37
Editorial Board	37
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	36
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	36
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	36
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	36
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	36
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
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	35
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	35
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	34
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	34
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	34
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	34
Patent Toxicity	33
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	33
Editorial Board	33
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	33
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	33
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	33
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	33
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	33
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	32
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	32
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	32
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	32
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	32
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	32
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	31
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	31
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	31
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	31
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	31
The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources	30
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	30
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	30
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	30
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	30
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	30
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	30
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	30
Editorial Board	29
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	29
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	29
Editorial Board	29
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	29
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	29
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics	29
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	29
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	29
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	29
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	28
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	28
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	28
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	28
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	28
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	28
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	28
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	27
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	27
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	27

Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	27
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	27
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	27
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	27
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	27
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	27
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	27
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	27
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	27
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	27
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	26
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	26
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	26
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	26
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	26
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	26
Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity	26
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	26
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	26
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	25
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	25
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	25
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	25
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	25
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	25
Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework	24
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	24
Editorial Board	24
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	24
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	24
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	24
Variety, complexity and economic development	24
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	24
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	24