Research Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Research Policy is 17. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board244
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China235
Editorial Board161
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance130
Does “Made in China 2025” work for China? Evidence from Chinese listed firms128
Book Review120
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK118
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity114
Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity111
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking107
Editorial Board101
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics99
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity92
Editorial Board89
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI88
Market for technology 2.0? Reassessing the role of complementary assets on licensing decisions79
Editorial Board79
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis74
New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences73
Enabling or accelerating? The timing of innovation and the different roles of venture capitalists70
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects68
What a firm produces matters: Processes of diversification, coherence and performances of Indian manufacturing firms67
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry66
Intellectual property coordinators' cohorts: A study into the imprints in university technology transfer66
Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century: An International Assessment of Knowledge Transfer Policies, Edited by Anthony Arundel, Suma Athreye and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent. Cambridge U65
Weeding out or picking winners in open innovation? Factors driving multi-stage crowd selection on LEGO ideas64
Persistence and learning effects in design innovation: Evidence from panel data63
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists61
Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs60
In the name of TRIPS: The impact of IPR harmonisation on patent activity in Latin America59
The role of Proof-of-Concept programs in facilitating the commercialization of research-based inventions58
Competing Standard-Setting Organizations: A Choice Experiment56
Gender homophily: In-group citation preferences and the gender disadvantage52
Trademarks and firm market value: Evidence from new trademark-firm linked data in China52
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform51
Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: Evidence from university versus corporate patents51
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs50
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations49
War and Transition47
Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks47
The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme46
Strategic framing of enabling technologies: Insights from firms digitizing smell and taste46
Dynamics of imitation versus innovation in technological leadership change: Latecomers’ catch-up strategies in diverse technological regimes45
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem45
Passing the torch of knowledge: Star death, collaborative ties, and knowledge creation45
Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry44
We're in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU44
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions44
The interdisciplinarity dilemma: Public versus private interests44
Blinded by the sun: The role of prosumers as niche actors in incumbent firms’ adoption of solar power during sustainability transitions43
Interfaces, modularity and ecosystem emergence: How DARPA modularized the semiconductor ecosystem43
The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem43
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison43
Technological profiles, upgrading and the dynamics of growth: Country-level patterns and trajectories across distinct stages of development42
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?42
Crowdsourcing research questions in science41
Institutional logics and founders' identity orientation: Why academic entrepreneurs aspire lower venture growth41
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US38
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games38
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields37
Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion36
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software36
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures35
Inventor mobility under uncertainty35
Topic choice, gendered language, and the under-funding of female scholars in mission-oriented research34
Isomorphic difference: Familiarity and distinctiveness in national research and innovation policies34
The impact of geographical distance on learning through collaboration34
Diffusion to peers in firm-hosted user innovation communities: Contributions by professional versus amateur users34
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences34
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda34
Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention34
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness34
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis34
Patents and knowledge diffusion33
Crowding in and crowding out within a contribution good model of research32
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation32
Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?32
Teaching benefits of multi-helix university-industry research collaborations: Towards a holistic framework31
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide31
Private and social functions of patents: Innovation, markets, and new firms31
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making31
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems31
A language-based approach to measuring creative exploration31
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure31
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?30
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings30
Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective30
Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting30
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems29
What makes a productive Ph.D. student?29
Forced to innovate? Consequences of United States' anti-dumping sanctions on innovations of Chinese exporters29
Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance29
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms29
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
Missing women in STEM occupations: The impact of university education on the gender gap in graduates' transition to work28
How does digital piracy affect innovation? Evidence from software firms28
When does international knowledge connectivity of global cities attract R&D investments? The role of concentrated ownership through organizational pipelines27
Transformation of the governance of failure for radical innovation: The role of strategic leaders27
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics27
Editorial Board27
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding27
Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high26
Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs26
What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment26
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition26
Case study research on innovation systems: Paradox, dialectical analysis and resolution26
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance26
Entrepreneurship and subjective vs objective institutional performance: A decade of US hospital data25
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector25
Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities25
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research25
Heroes of diffusion: Making user innovations widely available25
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design24
Governance of data sharing: A law & economics proposal24
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation24
How does competition influence innovative effort within a platform-based ecosystem? Contrasting paid and unpaid contributors24
First-mover advantage and the private value of public science24
Are intellectual property rights working for society?24
Editorial Board24
University patent litigation in the United States: Do we have a problem?23
The impact of robot adoption on global sourcing23
Externalities and complementarities in platforms and ecosystems: From structural solutions to endogenous failures23
Editorial Board23
Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals23
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’23
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?23
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure23
The role of gender and coauthors in academic publication behavior23
Not all technologies are created equal for stakeholders: Constituency statutes, firm stakeholder orientation and investments in technology generality23
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries23
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment23
Ecosystem disruption and regulatory positioning: Entry strategies of digital health startup orchestrators and complementors22
Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics22
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth22
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector22
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies22
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy22
Editorial Board22
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy21
Editorial Board21
Hand in hand to Nowhereland? How the resource dependence of research institutes influences their co-evolution with industry21
Editorial Board21
The effects of terrorist attacks on inventor productivity and mobility21
Facilitators and inhibitors for integrating expertise diversity in innovation teams: The case of plasmid exchange in molecular biology20
Competition makes IT better: Evidence on when firms use IT more effectively20
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions20
Does public R&D funding crowd-in private R&D investment? Evidence from military R&D expenditures for US states20
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism20
Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders20
The effects of foreign entry on local innovation by entry mode20
Style and quality: Aesthetic innovation strategy under weak appropriability20
Mentorship and creativity: Effects of mentor creativity and mentoring style20
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs20
Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework19
How and why accelerators enhance female entrepreneurship19
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence19
Evolution of the Indian LPG industry: Exploring conditions for public sector business model innovation19
Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets19
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance19
The scientific and technological cross-space: Is technological diversification driven by scientific endogenous capacity?19
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain19
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments19
Variety, complexity and economic development19
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level18
The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem18
Reconceptualising innovation failure18
Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the tech city programme18
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities18
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development18
American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living18
External review letters in academic promotion and tenure decisions are reflective of reviewer characteristics18
Catching-up during technological windows of opportunity: An industry product categories perspective18
Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence18
Understanding regional innovation cultures: Narratives, directionality, and conservative innovation in Bavaria18
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements18
Beyond plastic – Consumers prefer food packaging derived from genetically modified plants18
Academic scientists in corporate R&D: A theoretical model18
How the organizational design of R&D units affects individual search intensity – A network study17
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation17
Obstacles affecting innovation in small and medium enterprises: Quantitative analysis of the Argentinean manufacturing sector17
A framework for assessing municipal high-growth high-technology entrepreneurship policy17
Affiliation bias in peer review and the gender gap17
The impacts of lockdown on open source software contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic17
Filling gaps in local knowledge and technology assurance: Informal intermediation in the diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in rural Kenya17
Entrepreneurship in Cities17
Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy17
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share17
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