Research Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Research Policy is 18. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board265
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China243
Editorial Board161
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance140
Does “Made in China 2025” work for China? Evidence from Chinese listed firms135
Book Review131
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity128
Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity123
Editorial Board118
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics114
Editorial Board101
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding99
Case study research on innovation systems: Paradox, dialectical analysis and resolution93
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition92
Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high92
Interpretive aspects of claim language and patent scope89
Can money buy scientific leadership? The impact of excellence programs on German and French universities79
Editorial Board74
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields74
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI74
Editorial Board73
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis70
Enabling or accelerating? The timing of innovation and the different roles of venture capitalists67
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs66
What a firm produces matters: Processes of diversification, coherence and performances of Indian manufacturing firms65
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects65
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 U64
Persistence and learning effects in design innovation: Evidence from panel data64
In the name of TRIPS: The impact of IPR harmonisation on patent activity in Latin America63
Facilitating public procurement of innovation in the UK defence and health sectors: Innovation intermediaries as institutional entrepreneurs63
Competing Standard-Setting Organizations: A Choice Experiment60
Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: Evidence from university versus corporate patents58
War and Transition56
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems56
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations56
Strategic framing of enabling technologies: Insights from firms digitizing smell and taste54
The impact of public funding on science valorisation: an analysis of the ERC Proof-of-Concept Programme53
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem52
Dynamics of imitation versus innovation in technological leadership change: Latecomers’ catch-up strategies in diverse technological regimes52
Passing the torch of knowledge: Star death, collaborative ties, and knowledge creation51
Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the U.S. solar energy industry50
We're in this together: Sustainable energy and economic competitiveness in the EU50
The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem49
Blinded by the sun: The role of prosumers as niche actors in incumbent firms’ adoption of solar power during sustainability transitions48
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison47
Technological profiles, upgrading and the dynamics of growth: Country-level patterns and trajectories across distinct stages of development46
Interfaces, modularity and ecosystem emergence: How DARPA modularized the semiconductor ecosystem46
Institutional logics and founders' identity orientation: Why academic entrepreneurs aspire lower venture growth45
Crowdsourcing research questions in science45
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?45
When does international knowledge connectivity of global cities attract R&D investments? The role of concentrated ownership through organizational pipelines44
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US44
Transformation of the governance of failure for radical innovation: The role of strategic leaders43
Spurring subsidy entrepreneurs43
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance43
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics42
What workers and robots do: An activity-based analysis of the impact of robotization on changes in local employment42
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK42
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector41
New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences41
Medical research and health care finance: Evidence from Academic Medical Centers40
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform39
The role of Proof-of-Concept programs in facilitating the commercialization of research-based inventions39
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games38
Isomorphic difference: Familiarity and distinctiveness in national research and innovation policies38
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions38
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation36
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists36
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)36
Gender homophily: In-group citation preferences and the gender disadvantage35
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity35
A language-based approach to measuring creative exploration35
Topic choice, gendered language, and the under-funding of female scholars in mission-oriented research34
What makes a productive Ph.D. student?34
Inventor mobility under uncertainty34
Weeding out or picking winners in open innovation? Factors driving multi-stage crowd selection on LEGO ideas34
Trademarks and firm market value: Evidence from new trademark-firm linked data in China34
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda34
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking34
The interdisciplinarity dilemma: Public versus private interests33
Invention and the life course: Age differences in patenting33
Atypical combinations of technologies in regional co-inventor networks33
Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention33
Market for technology 2.0? Reassessing the role of complementary assets on licensing decisions33
Intellectual property coordinators' cohorts: A study into the imprints in university technology transfer32
How does digital piracy affect innovation? Evidence from software firms32
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry32
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures32
The impact of geographical distance on learning through collaboration31
Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion31
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis31
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software31
Patents and knowledge diffusion30
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences30
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness30
Diffusion to peers in firm-hosted user innovation communities: Contributions by professional versus amateur users30
Crowding in and crowding out within a contribution good model of research29
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide29
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings29
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure29
Teaching benefits of multi-helix university-industry research collaborations: Towards a holistic framework29
Job Automation Risk, Economic Structure and Trade: a European Perspective29
Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?29
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making29
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?29
Private and social functions of patents: Innovation, markets, and new firms29
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms28
Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance28
Missing women in STEM occupations: The impact of university education on the gender gap in graduates' transition to work27
Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities27
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems27
Heroes of diffusion: Making user innovations widely available27
Forced to innovate? Consequences of United States' anti-dumping sanctions on innovations of Chinese exporters27
Are intellectual property rights working for society?26
How does competition influence innovative effort within a platform-based ecosystem? Contrasting paid and unpaid contributors26
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation26
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research26
Entrepreneurship and subjective vs objective institutional performance: A decade of US hospital data26
First-mover advantage and the private value of public science26
Editorial Board25
The role of gender and coauthors in academic publication behavior25
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’25
Governance of data sharing: A law & economics proposal25
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?25
University patent litigation in the United States: Do we have a problem?25
Editorial Board25
Externalities and complementarities in platforms and ecosystems: From structural solutions to endogenous failures24
The effects of terrorist attacks on inventor productivity and mobility24
Routinization, within-occupation task changes and long-run employment dynamics24
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth24
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure24
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy24
Editorial Board24
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Style and quality: Aesthetic innovation strategy under weak appropriability23
Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders23
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector23
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy23
Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework23
Facilitators and inhibitors for integrating expertise diversity in innovation teams: The case of plasmid exchange in molecular biology23
The effects of foreign entry on local innovation by entry mode23
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions23
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism23
Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence22
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments22
Reconceptualising innovation failure22
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance22
Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets22
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy22
How and why accelerators enhance female entrepreneurship22
Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the tech city programme21
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?21
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities21
The innovative impact of public research institutes: Evidence from Italy21
Academic scientists in corporate R&D: A theoretical model21
American postdoctoral salaries do not account for growing disparities in cost of living21
Learning-by-hiring: How do rival firms learn from focal firm's hiring21
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements20
Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy20
Differences in female representation in leading management and organization journals: Establishing a benchmark20
Why U.S. immigration matters for the global advancement of science20
The impacts of lockdown on open source software contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation20
Is open innovation imprinted on new ventures? The cooperation-inhibiting legacy of authoritarian regimes20
Innovation attitudes and religiosity20
Catching-up during technological windows of opportunity: An industry product categories perspective20
How the organizational design of R&D units affects individual search intensity – A network study20
Filling gaps in local knowledge and technology assurance: Informal intermediation in the diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in rural Kenya20
Citations backward and forward: Insights into the patent examiner's role20
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading19
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time19
Financial support to innovation: The role of European development financial institutions19
Aftermath of a tragedy: A star's death and coauthors’ subsequent productivity19
Catching up with the market leader: Does it pay to rapidly imitate its innovations?19
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment19
Venture capital and the international relocation of startups19
Personality and regional innovativeness: An empirical analysis of German patent data18
The partisanship of American inventors18
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence18
Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis of coal tar-based innovations18
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs18
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance18
Innovation in libraries: A service-oriented perspective18
Variety, complexity and economic development18
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain18
Hand in hand to Nowhereland? How the resource dependence of research institutes influences their co-evolution with industry18
Network pathways of peripheral firm entry: Empirical evidence from the global airline industry18
The scientific and technological cross-space: Is technological diversification driven by scientific endogenous capacity?18
Economic complexity and the green economy18
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development18
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