Research Policy

Article	Citations
The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes	675
The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions	183
Gender gap in entrepreneurship	173
The design of startup accelerators	148
Resource efficient eco-innovations for a circular economy: Evidence from EU firms	147
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies	145
Measuring the temporal dynamics of policy mixes – An empirical analysis of renewable energy policy mixes’ balance and design features in nine countries	143
Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019	141
Economic complexity and the green economy	138
Is this time different? How digitalization influences job creation and destruction	130
Investors’ choices between cash and voting rights: Evidence from dual-class equity crowdfunding	123
Knowledge sources and impacts on subsequent inventions: Do green technologies differ from non-green ones?	110
Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing	105
Citizen science and sustainability transitions	99
Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions	98
Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU’s energy policy mix	96
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward	82
Policy-mix evaluation: Governance challenges from new place-based innovation policies	81
Public procurement, innovation and industrial policy: Rationales, roles, capabilities and implementation	80
Digital technology adoption and knowledge flows within firms: Can the Internet overcome geographic and technological distance?	79
Gender diversity in R&D teams and innovation efficiency: Role of the innovation context	79
Blockchain and the evolution of institutional technologies: Implications for innovation policy	76
Unpacking liabilities of newness and smallness in innovative start-ups: Investigating the differences in innovation performance between new and older small firms	76
Driving innovation: Public policy and human capital	75
Patent claims and patent scope	75

The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation	72
Motivations and solution appropriateness in crowdsourcing challenges for innovation	71
Meeting, mating, and intermediating: How incubators can overcome weak network problems in entrepreneurial ecosystems	66
Configurations of platform organizations: Implications for complementor engagement	66
Six policy intervention points for sustainability transitions: A conceptual framework and a systematic literature review	66
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	66
Removing bottlenecks in business ecosystems: The strategic role of outbound open innovation	64
Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges	63
Testing future societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance	61
Studying transitions: Past, present, and future	60
Protecting their digital assets: The use of formal & informal appropriability strategies by App developers	60
Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework	59
Gender diversity in senior management, strategic change, and firm performance: Examining the mediating nature of strategic change in high tech firms	57
Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation	56
Social capital and the digital crowd: Involving backers to promote new product innovativeness	56
Technological cooperation, R&D outsourcing, and innovation performance at the firm level: The role of the regional context	54
The evolution of equity crowdfunding: Insights from co-investments of angels and the crowd	53
Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement	53
R&D Subsidies as Dual Signals in Technological Collaborations	52
When does crowdsourcing benefit firm stock market performance?	52
Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives	52
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs	51
Natural language processing to identify the creation and impact of new technologies in patent text: Code, data, and new measures	50
Selecting an open innovation community as an alliance partner: Looking for healthy communities and ecosystems	50
Specialisation, diversification and the ladder of green technology development	49
Integrating finance into the multi-level perspective: Technology niche-finance regime interactions and financial policy interventions	49
Do low-skilled workers gain from high-tech employment growth? High-technology multipliers, employment and wages in Britain	48
Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions	47
The new paradigm of economic complexity	46
Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012	46
How to avoid borrowed plumes in academia	45
Which types of knowledge-intensive business services firms collaborate with universities for innovation?	45
Containing the Not-Invented-Here Syndrome in external knowledge absorption and open innovation: The role of indirect countermeasures	44
Clusters and firm-level innovation: A configurational analysis of agglomeration, network and institutional advantages in European aerospace	44
Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity	44
Methods to account for citation inflation in research evaluation	44
Delineating policy mixes: Contrasting top-down and bottom-up approaches to the case of energy-storage policy in California	44
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	43
Start-up subsidies: Does the policy instrument matter?	42
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups	42
The state of innovation system research: What happens beneath the surface?	42
Measuring eco-innovation dimensions: The role of environmental corporate culture and commercial orientation	42
Knowledge to money: Assessing the business performance effects of publicly-funded R&D grants	42
Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products	42
What do we know about R&D spillovers and productivity? Meta-analysis evidence on heterogeneity and statistical power	41
Patents and knowledge diffusion: The effect of early disclosure	40
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms	40
Entrepreneurship policy and the financing of young innovative companies: Evidence from the Italian Startup Act	39
Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction	39
Differential moderating effects of strategic and operational reconfiguration on the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance	39

Coherence or flexibility? The paradox of change for developers’ digital innovation trajectory on open platforms	39
Configuring collective digital-technology usage in dynamic and complex design practices	39
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	38
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption and innovation: A systematic literature review on barriers, enablers, and innovation types	38
The role of interactive learning in innovation capability building in multinational subsidiaries: A micro-level study of biotechnology in Brazil	37
The antecedents of green technologies: The role of team-level recombinant capabilities	37
Founder CEOs and innovation: Evidence from CEO sudden deaths in public firms	37
Gender diversity in the management field: Does it matter for research outcomes?	36
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Metrics	35
Mapping the mix: Linking instruments, settings and target groups in the study of policy mixes	35
Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines	35
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation	34
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	34
Higher education policy: Why hope for quality when rewarding quantity?	34
Firm survival in complex value chains and global innovation systems: Evidence from solar photovoltaics	34
Inbound Open Innovation and Innovation Performance: A Robustness Study	33
Directed innovation policies and the supermultiplier: An empirical assessment of mission-oriented policies in the US economy	32
Firm ownership, quality of government and innovation: Evidence from patenting in the telecommunication industry	32
Bridging analog and digital expertise: Cross-domain collaboration and boundary-spanning tools in the creation of digital innovation	32
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	31
Why do people use mobile payment technologies and why would they continue? An examination and implications from India	31
Intermediation in public procurement of innovation: How Amsterdam’s startup-in-residence programme connects startups to urban challenges	31
Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems	31
Measuring innovation using firm-level surveys: Evidence from developing countries✰	30
Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry	30
The relationship between interdisciplinarity and distinct modes of university-industry interaction	30
Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations	30
The effect of technological imitation on corporate innovation: Evidence from US patent data	29
Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation	29
Foreign inventors in Europe and the United States: Diversity and Patent Quality	29
Industry-university knowledge flows and product innovation: How do knowledge stocks and crisis matter?	29
Patent trading flows of small and large firms	29
Explaining early entry into path-creation technological catch-up in the forestry and pulp industry: Evidence from Brazil	28
Political uncertainty and innovation: The relative effects of national leaders’ education levels and regime systems on firm-level patent applications	28
Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?	28
Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues	28
State governments as financiers of technology startups: Evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program	28
Universities’ commitment to interdisciplinary research: To what end?	28
Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?	28
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions	28
Public funding of innovation: Exploring applications and allocations of the European SME Instrument	28
R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in india	27
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	27
Are engineering graduates ready for R&D jobs in emerging countries? Teaching-focused industry-academia collaboration strategies	27
Research addressing emerging technological ideas has greater scientific impact	27
Are R&D-Intensive firms also corporate social responsibility specialists? A multicountry study	27
New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity	27
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	27
To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?	27
The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa	27
Private and public values of innovation: A patent analysis of synthetic biology	27
Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from German firm-level data	26
Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability	25
The supply chain economy: A new industry categorization for understanding innovation in services	25
Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility	25
Do research subsidies crowd out private R&D of large firms? Evidence from European Framework Programmes	25
Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity	24
Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector	24
The verticality of policy mixes for sustainability transitions: A case study of solar water heating in China	24
Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models	24
Disentangling the effects of business groups in the innovation-export relationship	24
Why matter matters: How technology characteristics shape the strategic framing of technologies	24
Innovation efficiency in European high-tech industries: Evidence from a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach	24
Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms	23
Household sector innovation in China: Impacts of income and motivation	23
Anchoring innovations in oscillating domestic spaces: Why sanitation service offerings fail in informal settlements	23
Crowdsourcing for innovation: How related and unrelated perspectives interact to increase creative performance	23
The interconnections of academic research and universities’ “third mission”: Evidence from the UK	23
A shot in the dark? Policy influence on cluster networks	23
Bridging the equity gap for young innovative companies: The design of effective government venture capital fund programs	23
On the use of blockchain-based mechanisms to tackle academic misconduct	22
Evaluation in research funding agencies: Are structurally diverse teams biased against?	22
Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions	22
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison	22
Innovation and uneven development: The challenge for low- and middle-income economies	22
Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies	22
Innovation over the industry life-cycle. Does ownership matter?	22
The Matthew effect of a journal's ranking	21
Effective innovation via better management of firms: The role of leverage in times of crisis	21
Conversations and idea generation: Evidence from a field experiment	21

Should there be lower taxes on patent income?	21
Mapping general purpose technologies with patent data	21
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	21
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	21
Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies	21
The acceptance of instruments in instrument mix situations: Citizens’ perspective on Swiss energy transition	21
Even winners need to learn: How government entrepreneurship programs can support innovative ventures	21
How do new use environments influence a technology's knowledge trajectory? A patent citation network analysis of lithium-ion battery technology	20
Does green public procurement trigger environmental innovations?	20
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation	20
Different founders, different venture outcomes: A comparative analysis of academic and non-academic startups	20
The effectiveness of university regulations to foster science-based entrepreneurship	20
Interplay of policy experimentation and institutional change in sustainability transitions: The case of mobility as a service in Finland	20
Does the merger of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China	20
Unpacking transnational industry legitimacy dynamics, windows of opportunity, and latecomers’ catch-up in complex product systems	20
Academic breeding grounds: Home department conditions and early career performance of academic researchers	19
Entrepreneurship in Cities	19
Suppliers versus start-ups: Where do better innovation ideas come from?	19
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence	19
Industrial policy intensity, technological change, and productivity growth: Evidence from China	19
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	19
Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances	19
Trademarks, specialized complementary assets, and the external sourcing of innovation	19
When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data	18
Do public R&D subsidies produce jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR program	18
Intermediaries for the greater good: How entrepreneurial support organizations can embed constrained sustainable development startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems	18
Network failure: Biotechnology firms, clusters and collaborations far from the world superclusters	18
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers	18
Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis	18
Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?	18
A dynamic multi-sector analysis of technological catch-up: The impact of technology cycle times, knowledge base complexity and variety	18
The geography of scientific citations	18
Distinguishing between appropriability and appropriation: A systematic review and a renewed conceptual framing	18
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	18
In-text patent citations: A user's guide	18
Reporting errors and biases in published empirical findings: Evidence from innovation research	18
Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility	18
The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science	18
Returns to ICT skills	18
Related variety as a driver of regional innovation and entrepreneurship: A moderated and mediated model with non-linear effects	18
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis	18