Research Policy

Article	Citations
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	331
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	311
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	298
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	180
Editorial Board	179
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	168
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	160
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	155
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	151
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	143
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	141
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	120
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	119
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	112
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	107
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	95
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’	92
Editorial Board	91
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	91
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	89
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	87
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	87
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	87
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	86
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	84

Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	83
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	82
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	80
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	80
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	79
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	78
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	77
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	77
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	75
Innovation grant (S)hopping: Unpacking SMEs' support choices between multiple potential funding sources	72
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	72
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	71
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	70
Economic complexity and the green economy	68
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	65
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	65
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	61
Are ideas being fished out?	60
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	60
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	58
Editorial Board	56
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	56
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	55
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	52
Transformation of Global Science core–periphery structure towards a multi-polar horizon: The Rise of China and the Global South from 1980–2020	52
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	51
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	50
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	50
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	50
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	50
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	50
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	50
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	49
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	49
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	49
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	49
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	48
A simple measure of economic complexity	47
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	47
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	47
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	47
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	47
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	46
Trademarks and the innovativeness of social enterprises	46
Digitalization and resilience	45
Deliberate exploratory search in technology innovation: Discovering and developing need-solution pairs	45
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	45

Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	45
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	44
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	44
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	43
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	43
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	43
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	43
Research funding and collaboration	43
Editorial Board	43
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	42
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	41
Women's empowerment and participation in innovation: Evidence from the one-child policy in China	41
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	40
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	40
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	40
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	40
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	40
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	39
Patent Toxicity	39
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	39
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	39
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	39
Unexpectedness in medical research	39
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	39
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	39
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	38
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	38
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	38
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	37
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	37
Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance	37
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	37
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	37
Science knowledge localizes	37
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	36
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	36
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	36
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	36
Policy feedbacks and socio-technical feedbacks in accelerated low-carbon transitions: An integrated conceptual framework illustrated with case studies of lighting and smart meters	36
Editorial Board	36
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	36
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	35
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	35
Risk in science: The socialization of risk-taking in early-career training	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
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	35
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	35
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	35
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	35
Editorial Board	34
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	34
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	34
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	34
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	34
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	34
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	34
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	34
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	34
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	33
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	33
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	33
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	33
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	33
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	33
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
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	32
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	32
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	32
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	31
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	31
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	31
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	31
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	31
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	31
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	31
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	31
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	31
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	30

Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	30
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	30
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	30
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	30
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	30
Editorial Board	30
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	29
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	29
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	29
Knowledge spillover of innovation: Entrepreneurial difference	29
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	29
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	29
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	29
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	29
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	29
Variety, complexity and economic development	29
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	28
Editorial Board	28
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	28
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	28
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	28
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	28
Editorial Board	28
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	28
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	27
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	27
Editorial Board	27
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	27