Research Policy

Article	Citations
Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019	206
Economic complexity and the green economy	184
Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions	132
Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges	130
Citizen science and sustainability transitions	121
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward	110
Unpacking liabilities of newness and smallness in innovative start-ups: Investigating the differences in innovation performance between new and older small firms	107
Six policy intervention points for sustainability transitions: A conceptual framework and a systematic literature review	99
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	95
The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation	92
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs	90
Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework	86
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	85
Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives	84
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	83
Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation	81
Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement	80
Natural language processing to identify the creation and impact of new technologies in patent text: Code, data, and new measures	80
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption and innovation: A systematic literature review on barriers, enablers, and innovation types	72
The new paradigm of economic complexity	68
Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction	66
Integrating finance into the multi-level perspective: Technology niche-finance regime interactions and financial policy interventions	65
Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions	62
Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity	60
Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from German firm-level data	58

Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups	58
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	58
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation	58
Measuring eco-innovation dimensions: The role of environmental corporate culture and commercial orientation	57
Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products	57
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	55
Patents and knowledge diffusion: The effect of early disclosure	55
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms	54
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions	54
Differential moderating effects of strategic and operational reconfiguration on the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance	53
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Metrics	53
Why do people use mobile payment technologies and why would they continue? An examination and implications from India	53
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	51
Directed innovation policies and the supermultiplier: An empirical assessment of mission-oriented policies in the US economy	50
The role of interactive learning in innovation capability building in multinational subsidiaries: A micro-level study of biotechnology in Brazil	49
Does green public procurement trigger environmental innovations?	49
Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models	48
Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms	48
Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector	47
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	46
Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies	46
R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in india	46
Industry-university knowledge flows and product innovation: How do knowledge stocks and crisis matter?	45
Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation	44
New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity	43
The role of proximity in sustainability transitions: A technological niche evolution analysis	42
Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations	42
The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on the scholarly productivity of women academics in South Africa	42
Inbound Open Innovation and Innovation Performance: A Robustness Study	41
Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?	41
Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry	40
Interplay of policy experimentation and institutional change in sustainability transitions: The case of mobility as a service in Finland	39
Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems	39
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	39
Public funding of innovation: Exploring applications and allocations of the European SME Instrument	38
Firm ownership, quality of government and innovation: Evidence from patenting in the telecommunication industry	38
Higher education policy: Why hope for quality when rewarding quantity?	37
Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies	36
Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues	36
Effective innovation via better management of firms: The role of leverage in times of crisis	36
Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity	35
State governments as financiers of technology startups: Evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program	35
Innovation and uneven development: The challenge for low- and middle-income economies	35
Are R&D-Intensive firms also corporate social responsibility specialists? A multicountry study	35
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	35
How do new use environments influence a technology's knowledge trajectory? A patent citation network analysis of lithium-ion battery technology	35
The effectiveness of university regulations to foster science-based entrepreneurship	35
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison	35
Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?	34
Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance	34

Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability	34
Innovation efficiency in European high-tech industries: Evidence from a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach	34
Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility	33
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	33
Bridging the equity gap for young innovative companies: The design of effective government venture capital fund programs	32
Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility	32
To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?	32
The supply chain economy: A new industry categorization for understanding innovation in services	31
Industrial policy intensity, technological change, and productivity growth: Evidence from China	31
Household sector innovation in China: Impacts of income and motivation	31
Mapping general purpose technologies with patent data	31
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation	31
Coworking spaces: An overview and research agenda	31
Different founders, different venture outcomes: A comparative analysis of academic and non-academic startups	30
A dynamic multi-sector analysis of technological catch-up: The impact of technology cycle times, knowledge base complexity and variety	30
Can direct innovation subsidies relax SMEs’ financial constraints?	30
Intermediaries for the greater good: How entrepreneurial support organizations can embed constrained sustainable development startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems	30
Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions	29
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers	29
The time and frequency of unrelated diversification	29
Disentangling the effects of business groups in the innovation-export relationship	29
Unpacking transnational industry legitimacy dynamics, windows of opportunity, and latecomers’ catch-up in complex product systems	29
Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention	28
Even winners need to learn: How government entrepreneurship programs can support innovative ventures	28
Regional governments and opportunity entrepreneurship in underdeveloped institutional environments: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective	27
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	27
Profiting from digital innovation: Patents, copyright and performance	27
What drives the delegation of innovation decisions? The roles of firm innovation strategy and the nature of external knowledge	27
Population ageing, labour market rigidity and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	27
Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities	27
Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative?	27
Does the merger of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China	27
Returns to ICT skills	27
Entrepreneurship in Cities	27
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence	26
When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data	26
Distinguishing between appropriability and appropriation: A systematic review and a renewed conceptual framing	26
It's about time: The timing of entrepreneurial experience and the career dynamics of university graduates	26
Gender-equal funding rates conceal unequal evaluations	26
Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances	26
Should there be lower taxes on patent income?	26
The Matthew effect of a journal's ranking	26
Framing improvements of public innovation in a living lab context: Processual learning, restrained space and democratic engagement	25
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	25
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis	25
Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?	25
Regional gatekeepers, inventor networks and inventive performance: Spatial and organizational channels	25
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games	25
Causality and explanation in socio-technical transitions research: Mobilising epistemological insights from the wider social sciences	25
How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited	25
Innovation in economically developed and lagging European regions: A configurational analysis	24
Public funding and the ascent of Chinese science: Evidence from the National Natural Science Foundation of China	24
Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity	24
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	24
Benchmarking U.S. university patent value and commercialization efforts: A new approach	24
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	24
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	24
Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?	23
Obstacles affecting innovation in small and medium enterprises: Quantitative analysis of the Argentinean manufacturing sector	23
Destabilization and consolidation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and validating the dual characteristics of technology	23
Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence	23
Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis	23
Rich on paper? Chinese firms’ academic publications, patents, and market value	23
The Importance of Tacit Knowledge: Dynamic Inventor Activity in the Commercialization Phase	23
Related variety as a driver of regional innovation and entrepreneurship: A moderated and mediated model with non-linear effects	22
National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective	22
Trademark value indicators: Evidence from the trademark protection lifecycle in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry	22
A new tool for policymakers: Mapping cultural possibilities in an emerging AI entrepreneurial ecosystem	22
Do firms profit from patent litigation? The contingent roles of diversification and intangible assets	22
Becoming an intellectual monopoly by relying on the national innovation system: the State Grid Corporation of China's experience	22
Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation	22
Entrepreneurial use of context for technological system creation and expansion: The case of blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trading	22
Breakthrough innovations and where to find them	22
The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: Industry associations and small-firm innovation	22
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany	22
Do public R&D subsidies produce jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR program	21
In-text patent citations: A user's guide	21
Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems	21
The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science	21
Why do incumbents fund startups? A study of the antecedents of corporate venture capital in China	21

Can antitrust law enforcement spur innovation? Antitrust regulation of patent consolidation and its impact on follow-on innovations	20
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents	20
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	20
Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance	20
The formal institutional context of informal entrepreneurship: A cross-national, configurational-based perspective	20
The influence of information depth and information breadth on brokers’ idea newness in online maker communities	20
Counterfeiting in digital technologies: An empirical analysis of the economic performance and innovative activities of affected companies	20
The innovation impacts of public procurement offices: The case of healthcare procurement	20
Exclusive licensing of university technology: The effects of university prestige, technology transfer offices, and academy-industry collaboration	20
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	20
The unlikely encounter: Is ethnic diversity in start-ups associated with innovation?	19
Towards a firm-level technological capability framework to endorse and actualize the Fourth Industrial Revolution in developing countries	19
Foreign-Born graduates and innovation: Evidence from an Australian skilled visa program✰,✰✰,★,★★	19
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	19
Technological paradigms, labour creation and destruction in a multi-sector agent-based model	19
How important are local knowledge spillovers of public R&D and what drives them?	19
Catching up or lagging behind? The long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment	19
Is open innovation imprinted on new ventures? The cooperation-inhibiting legacy of authoritarian regimes	19
Asymmetries between partners and the success of university-industry research collaborations	19
The role of data for AI startup growth	19
Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means	19
Resolving information asymmetries in financing new product development: The case of reward-based crowdfunding	19
Towards an integrated framework for evaluating transformative innovation policy	19
Innovative events: product launches, innovation and firm performance	19
Policy mixes for business model innovation: The case of off-grid energy for sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa	18
Gendered knowledge in fields and academic careers	18
Which innovation regime for public service innovation networks for social innovation (PSINSIs)? Lessons from a European cases database	18
Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis of coal tar-based innovations	18
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics	18
Does TTO capability matter in commercializing university technology? Evidence from longitudinal data in South Korea	18
Sector heterogeneity and dynamic effects of innovation subsidies: Evidence from Horizon 2020	18
The determinants of AI innovation across European firms	18
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	18
The Role Of Extramural R&D And Scientific Knowledge In Creating High Novelty Innovations: An Examination Of Manufacturing And Service Firms In Spain	18
Cross-border effects of R&D tax incentives	18
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	18
Complementarity formation mechanisms in technology value chains	18
The ability of European regions to diversify in renewable energies: The role of technological relatedness	18
The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem	18