Research Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	430
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	363
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	243
Specialisation and the career outcomes of inventors	227
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	224
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	189
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	187
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	158
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	157
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	141
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	133
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	111
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	110
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	103
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	103
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	103
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	94
Editorial Board	90
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	88
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’	81
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	79
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	79
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	78
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	74
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	74

Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	73
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	71
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	70
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	69
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	69
Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?	69
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	68
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	68
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	67
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	66
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	65
Disruptive sustainability through digital innovations: Overcoming information asymmetries to benefit small-scale producers	65
Economic complexity and the green economy	64
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	63
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	62
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	61
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	59
Editorial Board	59
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	58
Editorial Board	58
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	57
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	57
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	57
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	56
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	56
Are ideas being fished out?	56
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	56
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	56
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	55
Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises	55
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	55
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	55
A simple measure of economic complexity	54
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	54
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	54
Distinguishing hares and tortoises in the field: Applicants' prediction of patent value flows	53
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	52
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	52
Industrial policy and catching-up: State-owned enterprises in a North–South agent-based model	52
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	52
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	51
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	51
Deliberate exploratory search in technology innovation: Discovering and developing need-solution pairs	51
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	50
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	50
Digitalization and resilience	49
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	49

How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	49
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	49
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	48
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	48
Editorial Board	48
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	47
Managing alliance portfolio interdependencies for innovation: The role of governance choice in new alliances	46
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	46
Women's empowerment and participation in innovation: Evidence from the one-child policy in China	45
Unexpectedness in medical research	45
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	45
AI in science: When and where it makes a difference	45
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	45
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	45
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	44
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	44
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	43
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	43
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	43
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	42
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	42
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	42
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	41
Science knowledge localizes	41
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	41
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	40
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	40
Editorial Board	40
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	40
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	39
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	39
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	39
Risk in science: The socialization of risk-taking in early-career training	39
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	39
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	39
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	39
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	38
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	38
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	38
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	37
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	36
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	36
Abstract patents and startup funding: Evidence from Alice v. CLS Bank	36
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	36
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	36
Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance	36
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	35
The fine print of collaboration: How contractual provisions govern IP and disclosure in publicly funded research	35
Editorial Board	35
Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters	35
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	35
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	34
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	34
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	34
The effects of public procurement requirements and voluntary standards on environmental product innovation	33
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	33
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	33
The paradox of competition: How funding models could undermine the uptake of data sharing practices	33
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	32
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	32
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	32
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	32
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	32
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	32
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	31
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	31
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	30
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	30
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	30
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	30
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	30
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	30
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	30
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	30
Variety, complexity and economic development	29
Editorial Board	29
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	29
The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight	29
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	29
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	29

A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	28
Building entrepreneurial infrastructure: Discursive strategies and the development of China's venture financing system	28
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	27
Knowledge spillover of innovation: Entrepreneurial difference	27
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	27
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	27
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	27
Editorial Board	26
Postdoctoral mobility and returnees' careers in Italian academia	26
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	26
Editorial Board	26
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	26
Editorial Board	26
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	26
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	25
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	25
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	25
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	24
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	24
The effects of investments in research infrastructures of higher education institutes: Evidence from Poland and Czechia	24
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	24
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	24
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	24
Retrovation typology: Exploiting and exploring past knowledge for nostalgic and sustainable innovation	24
Global value chains and domestic innovation	24