Research Policy

Article	Citations
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	302
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	296
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	253
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	202
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	183
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	166
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	165
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	158
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	149
War and Transition	144
Editorial Board	143
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	130
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	130
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	121
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	109
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	105
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	98
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’	91
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	87
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	87
Editorial Board	87
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	85
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	85
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	85
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	83

Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	83
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	83
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	80
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	79
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	77
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	76
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	76
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	75
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	75
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	74
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	73
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	73
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	70
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	67
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	66
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	66
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	66
Economic complexity and the green economy	62
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	59
Are ideas being fished out?	59
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	56
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	56
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	56
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	55
Editorial Board	55
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	54
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	53
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	53
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	51
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	51
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	50
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	49
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	49
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	48
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	48
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	48
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	48
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	47
Research funding and collaboration	47
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	47
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	47
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	47
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	47
A simple measure of economic complexity	46
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	46
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	46
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	45
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	45
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	45
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	45

“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	44
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	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
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	43
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	43
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	42
Digitalization and resilience	42
Editorial Board	42
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	42
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	42
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	42
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	41
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	41
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	41
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	41
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	40
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	40
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	40
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	39
Patent Toxicity	39
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	39
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	38
Unexpectedness in medical research	38
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	38
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	38
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	38
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	38
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	37
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	37
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	37
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	37
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	37
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	36
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	36
Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters	36
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	36
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	36
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	35
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	35
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	35
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	35
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	34
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	34
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	34
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	34
Editorial Board	34
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	34
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	34
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	33
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	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
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	33
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	33
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	33
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	33
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	33
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	32
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	32
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	32
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	32
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	32
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	32
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	32
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	32
Editorial Board	32
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	32
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	31
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	31
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	31
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	31
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	31
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	31
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	31
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	31
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	31
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	30
Editorial Board	30
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	30
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	30
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	30

Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	30
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	30
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	30
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	29
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	29
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	29
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	29
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	29
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	29
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	29
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	29
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	29
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	29
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	29
Editorial Board	28
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	28
Variety, complexity and economic development	28
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	28
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	28
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	28
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	28
Editorial Board	27
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	27
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	27
Editorial Board	27
Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation	27
Editorial Board	27
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	27
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	27
Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents	26
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	26
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	26
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	26
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	26
Global value chains and domestic innovation	26