Research Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	420
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	394
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	350
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	219
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	213
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	202
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	191
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	174
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	173
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	166
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	149
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	143
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	122
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	116
Specialisation and the career outcomes of inventors	105
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	104
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	99
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	99
Editorial Board	99
Disruptive sustainability through digital innovations: Overcoming information asymmetries to benefit small-scale producers	98
Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?	98
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’	90
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	85
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	81
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	78

From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	73
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	70
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	68
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	68
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	67
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	67
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	66
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	66
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	65
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	64
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	63
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	63
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	62
Economic complexity and the green economy	62
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	61
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	61
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	59
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	59
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	59
Are ideas being fished out?	58
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How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	55
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	55
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	55
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	55
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	53
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	53
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	52
A simple measure of economic complexity	52
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	52
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	52
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	52
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	51
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	51
Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises	51
Industrial policy and catching-up: State-owned enterprises in a North–South agent-based model	51
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	51
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	51
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	50
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	50
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	49
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	49
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	49
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	49
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	49

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

Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	28
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	28
Postdoctoral mobility and returnees' careers in Italian academia	28
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	28
Building entrepreneurial infrastructure: Discursive strategies and the development of China's venture financing system	28
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	28
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	28
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
Variety, complexity and economic development	27
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	27
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Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	26
The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight	26
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	26
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
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The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	25
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	25
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	25
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Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents	24
Retrovation typology: Exploiting and exploring past knowledge for nostalgic and sustainable innovation	24
Global value chains and domestic innovation	24
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	23
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	23
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	23
Firm training, automation, and wages: International worker-level evidence	23
Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry	23
Political, economic and research disintegration: The impact of geopolitical uncertainty on innovation and cross-border R&D collaborations	23
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D	23
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	23
The effects of investments in research infrastructures of higher education institutes: Evidence from Poland and Czechia	23
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	23
CEO narcissism, subsidiary top management team international diversity, and radical digital innovation in multinational enterprises	23
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	23
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	23
Do weak intellectual property rights regimes affect foreign multinational firms' technology exploration? The moderating role of function-related and location-related experience	23
Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams: A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers	23