Research Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Research Policy is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
War and Transition306
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI267
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector208
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance159
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK155
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity151
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists150
Editorial Board148
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems143
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure139
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis132
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding127
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?120
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?116
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software110
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)108
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures103
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’100
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation99
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas92
Are intellectual property rights working for society?87
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?86
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading84
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment82
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design77
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents75
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation73
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions72
Entrepreneurship in Cities68
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments68
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance67
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation65
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement64
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation62
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain62
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development62
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism62
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements61
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level61
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies61
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance61
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment61
Economic complexity and the green economy60
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors60
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms60
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity59
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs58
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting58
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents56
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem55
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions52
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations52
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Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations50
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar47
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-201447
Are ideas being fished out?47
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms47
Editorial Board46
The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms46
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions45
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Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China45
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 201945
A simple measure of economic complexity44
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications43
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey43
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration42
Access to science and innovation in the developing world42
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia42
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges41
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers41
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students40
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)39
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs39
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness39
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”38
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D38
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK38
Research funding and collaboration38
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations38
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge37
Social movements and free innovation37
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’37
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems37
A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App36
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences36
Digitalization and resilience36
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?35
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Does greater diversification increase individual productivity? The moderating effect of attention allocation35
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development35
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web35
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation35
Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions34
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?34
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?34
Patent Toxicity34
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay34
Unexpectedness in medical research34
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective33
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance33
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies33
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective33
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems33
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers33
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity33
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Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm32
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction32
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector32
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 scie32
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety32
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies32
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers32
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO31
The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources31
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving31
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry30
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards30
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act30
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET30
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)30
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?29
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage29
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China29
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation29
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?29
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics28
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan28
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship28
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation28
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems28
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries28
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation28
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer28
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US27
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide27
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From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem27
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry27
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects27
Inventor mobility under uncertainty27
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity26
Crowdsourcing research questions in science26
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems26
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition26
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics26
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences26
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics26
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking26
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform26
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making26
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth25
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields25
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China25
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda25
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector25
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance25
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness25
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy25
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings25
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs25
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations25
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy24
Variety, complexity and economic development24
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time24
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector24
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy24
Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework24
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description24
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model24
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research24
Evolution of the Indian LPG industry: Exploring conditions for public sector business model innovation24
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share24
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries23
Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity23
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support23
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared23
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics23
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems23
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?23
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities23
Editorial Board23
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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”23
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique23
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure23
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The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge23
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Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation22
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists22
Global value chains and domestic innovation22
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty22
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea22
Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants21
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector21
Configuration of inclusive innovation systems: Function, agents and capabilities21
Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams: A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers21
Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents21
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?21
Staggered boards and product innovations: Evidence from Massachusetts State Bill HB 564021
Genealogical academic inbreeding and its effect on performance: Evidence for scientists at Dutch universities (1815–1943)21
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D21
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU21
Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle20
Servitization as a strategy for diffusing radical technologies: An analysis of U.S. top corporate R&D investors20
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents20
Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector20
Are patent offices substitutes?20
Exploring docility: A behavioral approach to interventions in business incubation20
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany19
Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means19
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Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data19
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes19
The diffusion of scientific discoveries in government laboratories: The role of patents filed by government scientists19
Exploring collective consumer innovation in health care: Cases and formal modeling19
The policy implications of economic complexity19
Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework19
Do R&D tax credits impact pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence from a synthetic control approach19
Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry19
Technological diversity of patent applications and decision pendency18
Design and environmental technologies: Does ‘green-matching’ actually help?18
Evaluating proposals in innovation contests: Exploring negative scoring spillovers in the absence of a strict evaluation sequence18
Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review18
Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage18
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems18
Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance18
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward18
Workforce sleep and corporate innovation18
Dominance of leading business schools in top journals: Insights for increasing institutional representation18
Mapping Markush18
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions18
Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation18
Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing18
The gender gap in PhD entrepreneurship: Why balancing employment in academia really matters17
Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms' patent litigation17
Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective17
Tracing entrepreneurial spillovers: Evidence from the U.S. State Small Business Credit initiative and Kickstarter17
The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes17
Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation17
Heterogeneous firms and cluster externalities: how asymmetric effects at the firm level affect cluster productivity17
National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets17
Exploring heterogeneous returns to collaborative R&D: A marginal treatment effects perspective17
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