Research Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	381
Shelter in scholarship: Evidence from a global survey of hosts for displaced Ukrainian scientists	366
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	334
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	204
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	204
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	190
Do synthesis programs facilitate interdisciplinary research? Evidence from the NSFC’s Major Research Plan	184
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	183
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	169
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	157
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	145
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	143
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	130
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	117
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	102
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	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’	98
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	98
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The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	93
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	93
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	93
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	86
Growing up but staying home: Patient equity investors and firm scale-up	86
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	85

Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	82
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	80
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	77
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	76
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	75
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	69
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	66
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	66
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	63
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	63
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	62
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	61
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	60
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	59
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	59
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	58
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	58
Economic complexity and the green economy	58
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	58
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	57
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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	55
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	54
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	54
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	54
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	53
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	53
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	53
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	52
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	51
Are ideas being fished out?	51
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	50
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	49
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	49
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	49
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	49
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	48
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	48
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	48
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	47
Deliberate exploratory search in technology innovation: Discovering and developing need-solution pairs	47
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	47
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	47
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	46
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	46
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	46
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	46
A simple measure of economic complexity	45

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

The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	29
Editorial Board	29
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	29
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	29
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	29
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	29
Variety, complexity and economic development	28
The evolution of decentralized exchange: Risks, benefits, and oversight	28
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	28
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	28
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	28
Knowledge spillover of innovation: Entrepreneurial difference	27
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	27
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	27
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	27
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
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Retrovation typology: Exploiting and exploring past knowledge for nostalgic and sustainable innovation	25
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	25
CEO narcissism, subsidiary top management team international diversity, and radical digital innovation in multinational enterprises	25
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	25
Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation	24
The effects of investments in research infrastructures of higher education institutes: Evidence from Poland and Czechia	24
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	24
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
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	24
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	24