Research Policy

Article	Citations
Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019	221
Economic complexity and the green economy	197
Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges	160
Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions	139
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward	116
Unpacking liabilities of newness and smallness in innovative start-ups: Investigating the differences in innovation performance between new and older small firms	113
Six policy intervention points for sustainability transitions: A conceptual framework and a systematic literature review	106
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	101
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	100
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	99
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs	97
Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives	96
Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework	91
Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement	89
Natural language processing to identify the creation and impact of new technologies in patent text: Code, data, and new measures	87
Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation	84
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption and innovation: A systematic literature review on barriers, enablers, and innovation types	82
The new paradigm of economic complexity	76
Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction	74
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions	69
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups	69
Integrating finance into the multi-level perspective: Technology niche-finance regime interactions and financial policy interventions	69
Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products	67
Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity	66
Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from German firm-level data	66

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Metrics	63
Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions	63
Measuring eco-innovation dimensions: The role of environmental corporate culture and commercial orientation	63
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	61
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation	61
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	61
Does green public procurement trigger environmental innovations?	61
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	60
Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms	58
Differential moderating effects of strategic and operational reconfiguration on the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance	57
Why do people use mobile payment technologies and why would they continue? An examination and implications from India	55
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms	55
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	54
Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models	53
Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance	52
Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector	52
Directed innovation policies and the supermultiplier: An empirical assessment of mission-oriented policies in the US economy	51
The role of interactive learning in innovation capability building in multinational subsidiaries: A micro-level study of biotechnology in Brazil	51
Industry-university knowledge flows and product innovation: How do knowledge stocks and crisis matter?	50
Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies	50
R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in india	49
Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation	49
New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity	48
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	47
Interplay of policy experimentation and institutional change in sustainability transitions: The case of mobility as a service in Finland	45
The role of proximity in sustainability transitions: A technological niche evolution analysis	45
The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa	44
Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?	44
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	44
Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry	43
Inbound Open Innovation and Innovation Performance: A Robustness Study	42
Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations	42
Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity	41
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison	41
Effective innovation via better management of firms: The role of leverage in times of crisis	41
Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems	41
Public funding of innovation: Exploring applications and allocations of the European SME Instrument	40
Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues	39
Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability	39
Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities	39
Innovation and uneven development: The challenge for low- and middle-income economies	39
Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies	38
Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility	37
Innovation efficiency in European high-tech industries: Evidence from a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach	37
Mapping general purpose technologies with patent data	37
Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention	37
Higher education policy: Why hope for quality when rewarding quantity?	37
How do new use environments influence a technology's knowledge trajectory? A patent citation network analysis of lithium-ion battery technology	36
Are R&D-Intensive firms also corporate social responsibility specialists? A multicountry study	36
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	36

Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility	35
The effectiveness of university regulations to foster science-based entrepreneurship	35
Can direct innovation subsidies relax SMEs’ financial constraints?	35
Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?	34
To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?	34
A dynamic multi-sector analysis of technological catch-up: The impact of technology cycle times, knowledge base complexity and variety	34
The time and frequency of unrelated diversification	34
Industrial policy intensity, technological change, and productivity growth: Evidence from China	34
Bridging the equity gap for young innovative companies: The design of effective government venture capital fund programs	34
Regional governments and opportunity entrepreneurship in underdeveloped institutional environments: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective	33
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	33
Population ageing, labour market rigidity and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	33
Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions	33
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers	33
Even winners need to learn: How government entrepreneurship programs can support innovative ventures	32
Coworking spaces: An overview and research agenda	32
The supply chain economy: A new industry categorization for understanding innovation in services	32
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation	32
Different founders, different venture outcomes: A comparative analysis of academic and non-academic startups	31
How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited	31
Intermediaries for the greater good: How entrepreneurial support organizations can embed constrained sustainable development startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems	31
Disentangling the effects of business groups in the innovation-export relationship	31
Causality and explanation in socio-technical transitions research: Mobilising epistemological insights from the wider social sciences	31
When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data	29
Returns to ICT skills	29
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games	29
Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance	29
Profiting from digital innovation: Patents, copyright and performance	29
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	29
Framing improvements of public innovation in a living lab context: Processual learning, restrained space and democratic engagement	29
Distinguishing between appropriability and appropriation: A systematic review and a renewed conceptual framing	29
Entrepreneurship in Cities	29
Does the merger of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China	28
Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances	28
Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative?	28
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	28
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence	28
Gender-equal funding rates conceal unequal evaluations	28
Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means	28
Asymmetries between partners and the success of university-industry research collaborations	27
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	27
What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge	27
Should there be lower taxes on patent income?	27
Innovation in economically developed and lagging European regions: A configurational analysis	27
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis	26
Becoming an intellectual monopoly by relying on the national innovation system: the State Grid Corporation of China's experience	26
A new tool for policymakers: Mapping cultural possibilities in an emerging AI entrepreneurial ecosystem	26
It's about time: The timing of entrepreneurial experience and the career dynamics of university graduates	26
Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity	26
Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence	26
The role of data for AI startup growth	26
Do firms profit from patent litigation? The contingent roles of diversification and intangible assets	26
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany	25
The determinants of AI innovation across European firms	25
Rich on paper? Chinese firms’ academic publications, patents, and market value	25
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	25
Benchmarking U.S. university patent value and commercialization efforts: A new approach	25
Towards a firm-level technological capability framework to endorse and actualize the Fourth Industrial Revolution in developing countries	25
Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems	24
The ability of European regions to diversify in renewable energies: The role of technological relatedness	24
Towards an integrated framework for evaluating transformative innovation policy	24
The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science	24
The formal institutional context of informal entrepreneurship: A cross-national, configurational-based perspective	24
Obstacles affecting innovation in small and medium enterprises: Quantitative analysis of the Argentinean manufacturing sector	24
Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis	24
Destabilization and consolidation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and validating the dual characteristics of technology	24
Breakthrough innovations and where to find them	24
Why do incumbents fund startups? A study of the antecedents of corporate venture capital in China	24
The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: Industry associations and small-firm innovation	23
Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?	23
The Importance of Tacit Knowledge: Dynamic Inventor Activity in the Commercialization Phase	23
Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation	23
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	23
Why do firms publish? A systematic literature review and a conceptual framework	23
Gendered knowledge in fields and academic careers	23
Entrepreneurial use of context for technological system creation and expansion: The case of blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trading	23
Foreign-Born graduates and innovation: Evidence from an Australian skilled visa program✰,✰✰,★,★★	22
Can antitrust law enforcement spur innovation? Antitrust regulation of patent consolidation and its impact on follow-on innovations	22
Exclusive licensing of university technology: The effects of university prestige, technology transfer offices, and academy-industry collaboration	22
The influence of information depth and information breadth on brokers’ idea newness in online maker communities	22

Do public R&D subsidies produce jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR program	22
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents	22
Related variety as a driver of regional innovation and entrepreneurship: A moderated and mediated model with non-linear effects	22
How important are local knowledge spillovers of public R&D and what drives them?	22
Complementarity formation mechanisms in technology value chains	22
Technological paradigms, labour creation and destruction in a multi-sector agent-based model	21
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	21
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	21
Resolving information asymmetries in financing new product development: The case of reward-based crowdfunding	21
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	21
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	21
Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis of coal tar-based innovations	21
The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem	21
Innovative events: product launches, innovation and firm performance	20
The innovation impacts of public procurement offices: The case of healthcare procurement	20
Governance of data sharing: A law & economics proposal	20
Cross-border effects of R&D tax incentives	20
Catching up or lagging behind? The long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment	20
Is open innovation imprinted on new ventures? The cooperation-inhibiting legacy of authoritarian regimes	20
Managing individual research productivity in academic organizations: A review of the evidence and a path forward	20
Reconceptualising innovation failure	20
Varieties of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A comparative study of Tokyo and Bangalore	19
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	19
Does TTO capability matter in commercializing university technology? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Korea	19
Sector heterogeneity and dynamic effects of innovation subsidies: Evidence from Horizon 2020	19
The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme	19
Policy mixes for business model innovation: The case of off-grid energy for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa	19
Mentorship and creativity: Effects of mentor creativity and mentoring style	19
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics	19