Research Policy

Article	Citations
War and Transition	316
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	269
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	221
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	171
Editorial Board	169
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	151
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	139
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	135
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	130
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	119
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	119
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	114
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	108
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	107
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	95
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	92
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	90
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	86
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’	85
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	83
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	77
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	75
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	75
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	73
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	72

Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	69
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	67
Entrepreneurship in Cities	67
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	66
Distilling and renewing science team search through external engagement	65
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	65
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	65
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	64
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	64
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	64
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	63
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	63
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	63
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	62
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	62
Labor market reform and innovation: Evidence from Spain	61
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	61
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	61
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	60
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	60
Economic complexity and the green economy	57
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	52
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	51
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	49
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	49
Editorial Board	48
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	48
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	48
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	48
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	47
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	47
Editorial Board	47
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	46
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	45
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	45
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	45
The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms	45
Are ideas being fished out?	44
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	43
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	42
Editorial Board	41
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	41
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	40
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	40
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	40
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	40
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	40
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	40
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	39

Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	39
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	38
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	38
Social movements and free innovation	38
Digitalization and resilience	38
A simple measure of economic complexity	38
Does greater diversification increase individual productivity? The moderating effect of attention allocation	37
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	37
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	37
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	36
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	36
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	36
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	36
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	36
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	36
A Note on Data-driven Actor-differentiation and SDGs 2 and 12: Insights from a Food-sharing App	36
Editorial Board	35
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	35
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	35
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	35
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	35
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	35
Research funding and collaboration	35
Unexpectedness in medical research	34
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	34
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	33
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	33
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	33
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	33
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	33
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	33
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	33
Patent Toxicity	33
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	32
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	32
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	32
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	32
Editorial Board	32
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	32
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	32
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	32
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	31
The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources	31
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	30
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	30
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	30
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	30
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	30
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	30
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	30
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	30
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	30
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	29
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	29
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	29
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	29
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	29
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	29
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	29
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	28
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	28
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	28
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	28
Editorial Board	27
What 5,000 acknowledgements tell us about informal collaboration in financial economics	27
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	27
Editorial Board	27
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	27
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	27
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	27
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	27
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	27
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	27
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	27
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	27
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	26
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	26
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	26
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	26
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	26

Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	26
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	26
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	26
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	26
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	26
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	26
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	26
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	26
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	26
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	26
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	26
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	26
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	25
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	25
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	25
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	25
Spawning exaptive opportunities in European regions: The missing link in the smart specialization framework	25
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	25
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	25
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	25
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	24
Variety, complexity and economic development	24
Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity	24
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	24
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	24
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	24
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	24
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	24
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	24
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	24