Research Policy

Article	Citations
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	313
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	305
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	272
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	176
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	170
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	162
War and Transition	154
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	149
Editorial Board	149
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	138
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	138
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	114
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	113
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	107
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	99
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	90
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’	88
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	88
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	87
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Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	85
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	84
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	83
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	82
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	81

Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	78
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	78
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	78
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	77
Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	77
Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle	77
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	76
Hiding practices in employee-user innovation	74
Do you see what I see? How expertise and a decision-maker role influence the recognition and selection of novel ideas	70
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	70
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	70
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	69
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	69
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	65
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	64
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	61
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	59
Economic complexity and the green economy	58
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	58
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	57
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	57
Are ideas being fished out?	54
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	53
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The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	52
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	52
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	50
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	50
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	49
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	49
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	48
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	48
Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	48
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	48
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	48
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	48
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	48
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	48
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	47
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	47
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	47
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	46
A simple measure of economic complexity	46
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	46
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	45
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	45
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	44
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	43
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	43

The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	42
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	42
Digitalization and resilience	42
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	42
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	42
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	42
Research funding and collaboration	42
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	41
Editorial Board	41
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	40
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	40
Women's empowerment and participation in innovation: Evidence from the one-child policy in China	40
Industrial policy, congruence, and innovation: Evidence from “Chinese NASDAQ”	40
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	39
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	39
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	39
Patent Toxicity	38
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	38
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	38
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	38
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	38
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	38
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	38
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	38
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	37
Unexpectedness in medical research	37
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	37
Science knowledge localizes	36
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	36
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	36
Not like the others: Frontier scientists for inventive performance	35
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	35
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	35
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	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
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	35
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	35
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	35
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	35
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	34
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	34
Short technology cycle time and firm innovation: Evidence from China	34
Editorial Board	34
The fine print of collaboration: How contractual provisions govern IP and disclosure in publicly funded research	34
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	34
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	34
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	34
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	34
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	34
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	33
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	33
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	33
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	33
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	33
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	33
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	32
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	32
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	32
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	32
Editorial Board	32
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	32
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	31
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	31
The paradox of competition: How funding models could undermine the uptake of data sharing practices	31
For what they are, not for what they bring: The signaling value of gender for financial resource acquisition in academic spin-offs	31
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	31
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	31
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	31
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	31
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	31
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	31
Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	31
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	30
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	30
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	30
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	30
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	30
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	30
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	30
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	30

Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	30
Editorial Board	29
Variety, complexity and economic development	29
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	29
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	29
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	29
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	29
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	29
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	29
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	28
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	28
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	28
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	28
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	28
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	27
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	27
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	27
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Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	27
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	27
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	27
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Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	26
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The effects of investments in research infrastructures of higher education institutes: Evidence from Poland and Czechia	26
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