Research Policy

Article	Citations
Academic engagement: A review of the literature 2011-2019	195
Economic complexity and the green economy	181
Towards a theory of transformative social innovation: A relational framework and 12 propositions	128
Citizen science and sustainability transitions	116
Digital technologies, innovation, and skills: Emerging trajectories and challenges	115
How open is innovation? A retrospective and ideas forward	108
Unpacking liabilities of newness and smallness in innovative start-ups: Investigating the differences in innovation performance between new and older small firms	102
Six policy intervention points for sustainability transitions: A conceptual framework and a systematic literature review	97
The roles of the state in the governance of socio-technical systems’ transformation	90
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	90
Can public R&D subsidy facilitate firms’ exploratory innovation? The heterogeneous effects between central and local subsidy programs	87
Evaluating impact from research: A methodological framework	81
Innovative start-ups and policy initiatives	80
Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation	79
Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement	77
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	77
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	75
Advanced manufacturing technology adoption and innovation: A systematic literature review on barriers, enablers, and innovation types	71
Natural language processing to identify the creation and impact of new technologies in patent text: Code, data, and new measures	68
Specialisation, diversification and the ladder of green technology development	65
Integrating finance into the multi-level perspective: Technology niche-finance regime interactions and financial policy interventions	64
Embodied and disembodied technological change: The sectoral patterns of job-creation and job-destruction	63
The new paradigm of economic complexity	63
Business innovation modes and their impact on innovation outputs: Regional variations and the nature of innovation across EU regions	59
Division of labor in collaborative knowledge production: The role of team size and interdisciplinarity	59

Immigrant entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the survey of business owners 2007 & 2012	59
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups	57
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	56
Patents and knowledge diffusion: The effect of early disclosure	55
Global networks, local specialisation and regional patterns of innovation	55
Openness in platform ecosystems: Innovation strategies for complementary products	55
Measuring eco-innovation dimensions: The role of environmental corporate culture and commercial orientation	54
Clusters and firm-level innovation: A configurational analysis of agglomeration, network and institutional advantages in European aerospace	52
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Metrics	51
The antecedents of green technologies: The role of team-level recombinant capabilities	51
The role of technology standards in product innovation: Theory and evidence from UK manufacturing firms	51
Why do people use mobile payment technologies and why would they continue? An examination and implications from India	50
Directed innovation policies and the supermultiplier: An empirical assessment of mission-oriented policies in the US economy	50
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	49
Artificial intelligence and industrial innovation: Evidence from German firm-level data	49
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	49
Differential moderating effects of strategic and operational reconfiguration on the relationship between open innovation practices and innovation performance	49
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?	48
Digital skills, relatedness and green diversification: A study of European regions	48
Measuring innovation using firm-level surveys: Evidence from developing countries✰	46
R&D tax credit and innovation: Evidence from private firms in india	45
Green innovation and financial performance: A study on Italian firms	44
Stimulating a more Circular Economy through Public Procurement: Roles and dynamics of intermediation	43
Industry-university knowledge flows and product innovation: How do knowledge stocks and crisis matter?	43
Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study in the water sector	43
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
Re-examining path dependence in the digital age: The evolution of connected car business models	41
Processes of building cross-border knowledge pipelines	41
The role of proximity in sustainability transitions: A technological niche evolution analysis	41
Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations	41
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	40
Inventor migration and knowledge flows: A two-way communication channel?	40
Greenfield foreign direct investments and regional environmental technologies	40
Start-ups launched by recent STEM university graduates: The impact of university education on entrepreneurial entry	39
New and atypical combinations: An assessment of novelty and interdisciplinarity	38
Politics of complexity: Conceptualizing agency, power and powering in the transitional dynamics of complex adaptive systems	38
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	38
Firm ownership, quality of government and innovation: Evidence from patenting in the telecommunication industry	37
Interplay of policy experimentation and institutional change in sustainability transitions: The case of mobility as a service in Finland	37
Public funding of innovation: Exploring applications and allocations of the European SME Instrument	37
Socializing the risks and rewards of public investments: Economic, policy, and legal issues	36
Higher education policy: Why hope for quality when rewarding quantity?	35
State governments as financiers of technology startups: Evidence from Michigan's R&D loan program	35
Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison	35
Transition topology: Capturing institutional dynamics in regional development paths to sustainability	34
Are R&D-Intensive firms also corporate social responsibility specialists? A multicountry study	34
Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?	33
Effective innovation via better management of firms: The role of leverage in times of crisis	33

How do new use environments influence a technology's knowledge trajectory? A patent citation network analysis of lithium-ion battery technology	33
Teaching-focused university–industry collaborations: Determinants and impact on graduates’ employability competencies	33
Do research subsidies crowd out private R&D of large firms? Evidence from European Framework Programmes	32
The effectiveness of university regulations to foster science-based entrepreneurship	32
Innovation performance feedback and technological alliance portfolio diversity: The moderating role of firms’ R&D intensity	32
Bridging the equity gap for young innovative companies: The design of effective government venture capital fund programs	32
Innovation and uneven development: The challenge for low- and middle-income economies	31
Mapping general purpose technologies with patent data	31
To what extent do young innovative companies take advantage of policy support to enact innovation appropriation mechanisms?	31
Innovation efficiency in European high-tech industries: Evidence from a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach	31
Organizational drivers of innovation: The role of workforce agility	31
Coworking spaces: An overview and research agenda	31
Household sector innovation in China: Impacts of income and motivation	30
Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility	30
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	29
The supply chain economy: A new industry categorization for understanding innovation in services	29
A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation	29
Unpacking transnational industry legitimacy dynamics, windows of opportunity, and latecomers’ catch-up in complex product systems	29
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	29
Different founders, different venture outcomes: A comparative analysis of academic and non-academic startups	28
Industrial policy intensity, technological change, and productivity growth: Evidence from China	28
Corporate commitment to climate change: The effect of eco-innovation and climate governance	28
Intermediaries for the greater good: How entrepreneurial support organizations can embed constrained sustainable development startups in entrepreneurial ecosystems	28
A dynamic multi-sector analysis of technological catch-up: The impact of technology cycle times, knowledge base complexity and variety	27
Regional innovation effects of applied research institutions	27
Population ageing, labour market rigidity and corporate innovation: Evidence from China	27
Does gender affect innovation? Evidence from female chief technology officers	27
Disentangling the effects of business groups in the innovation-export relationship	27
A shot in the dark? Policy influence on cluster networks	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
Does the merger of universities promote their scientific research performance? Evidence from China	27
Can direct innovation subsidies relax SMEs’ financial constraints?	27
Entrepreneurship in Cities	26
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	26
Even winners need to learn: How government entrepreneurship programs can support innovative ventures	26
Returns to ICT skills	26
Artificial intelligence in science: An emerging general method of invention	26
Goal heterogeneity at start-up: are greener start-ups more innovative?	26
Should there be lower taxes on patent income?	25
Distinguishing between appropriability and appropriation: A systematic review and a renewed conceptual framing	25
Knowledge diversity and team creativity: How hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games	25
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
It's about time: The timing of entrepreneurial experience and the career dynamics of university graduates	25
The Matthew effect of a journal's ranking	25
The time and frequency of unrelated diversification	25
Technological Diversification to Green Domains: Technological Relatedness, Invention Impact and Knowledge Integration Capabilities	25
Mounting corporate innovation performance: The effects of high-skilled migrant hires and integration capacity	24
The funding-productivity-gender nexus in science, a multistage analysis	24
Regional governments and opportunity entrepreneurship in underdeveloped institutional environments: An entrepreneurial ecosystem perspective	24
Causality and explanation in socio-technical transitions research: Mobilising epistemological insights from the wider social sciences	24
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	24
When labour market rigidities are useful for innovation. Evidence from German IAB firm-level data	24
Ties that matter: The impact of alliance partner knowledge recombination novelty on knowledge utilization in R&D alliances	24
Rich on paper? Chinese firms’ academic publications, patents, and market value	23
Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence	23
Public funding and the ascent of Chinese science: Evidence from the National Natural Science Foundation of China	23
Gender-equal funding rates conceal unequal evaluations	23
Obstacles affecting innovation in small and medium enterprises: Quantitative analysis of the Argentinean manufacturing sector	23
Medical research versus disease burden in Africa	22
How status of research papers affects the way they are read and cited	22
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	22
Innovation in economically developed and lagging European regions: A configurational analysis	22
Knowledge remittances: Does emigration foster innovation?	22
Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis	22
Using retracted journal articles in psychology to understand research misconduct in the social sciences: What is to be done?	22
Regional gatekeepers, inventor networks and inventive performance: Spatial and organizational channels	22
On the signaling effect of reward-based crowdfunding: (When) do later stage venture capitalists rely more on the crowd than their peers?	22
Becoming an intellectual monopoly by relying on the national innovation system: the State Grid Corporation of China's experience	21
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany	21
Do firms profit from patent litigation? The contingent roles of diversification and intangible assets	21
In-text patent citations: A user's guide	21
The fall of the innovation empire and its possible rise through open science	21
Related variety as a driver of regional innovation and entrepreneurship: A moderated and mediated model with non-linear effects	21
National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective	21
Benchmarking U.S. university patent value and commercialization efforts: A new approach	21
Breakthrough innovations and where to find them	21
Knowledge complexity and the mechanisms of knowledge generation and exploitation: The European evidence	21
Trademark value indicators: Evidence from the trademark protection lifecycle in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry	20

Entrepreneurial use of context for technological system creation and expansion: The case of blockchain-based peer-to-peer electricity trading	20
Ties that bind: Ethnic inventors in multinational enterprises’ knowledge integration and exploitation	20
The bright and dark sides of institutional intermediaries: Industry associations and small-firm innovation	20
The Importance of Tacit Knowledge: Dynamic Inventor Activity in the Commercialization Phase	20
Do public R&D subsidies produce jobs? Evidence from the SBIR/STTR program	20
The innovation impacts of public procurement offices: The case of healthcare procurement	20
Counterfeiting in digital technologies: An empirical analysis of the economic performance and innovative activities of affected companies	20
Destabilization and consolidation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and validating the dual characteristics of technology	19
Exclusive licensing of university technology: The effects of university prestige, technology transfer offices, and academy-industry collaboration	19
A new tool for policymakers: Mapping cultural possibilities in an emerging AI entrepreneurial ecosystem	19
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	19
Asymmetries between partners and the success of university-industry research collaborations	19
Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems	19
The influence of information depth and information breadth on brokers’ idea newness in online maker communities	19
Technological paradigms, labour creation and destruction in a multi-sector agent-based model	19
The unlikely encounter: Is ethnic diversity in start-ups associated with innovation?	19
The formal institutional context of informal entrepreneurship: A cross-national, configurational-based perspective	19
Why do incumbents fund startups? A study of the antecedents of corporate venture capital in China	19
Is open innovation imprinted on new ventures? The cooperation-inhibiting legacy of authoritarian regimes	18
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	18
Resolving information asymmetries in financing new product development: The case of reward-based crowdfunding	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
Innovation vs. standardization: The conjoint effects of eco-innovation and environmental management systems on environmental performance	18
Foreign-Born graduates and innovation: Evidence from an Australian skilled visa program✰,✰✰,★,★★	18
Catching up or lagging behind? The long-term business and innovation potential of subsidized start-ups out of unemployment	18
How important are local knowledge spillovers of public R&D and what drives them?	18
Gendered knowledge in fields and academic careers	17
Evolution and structure of technological systems - An innovation output network	17
Towards a firm-level technological capability framework to endorse and actualize the Fourth Industrial Revolution in developing countries	17
Which innovation regime for public service innovation networks for social innovation (PSINSIs)? Lessons from a European cases database	17
The stakeholder value proposition of digital platforms in an urban ecosystem	17
Depoliticizing the European immigration debate: How to employ public sector innovation to integrate migrants	17
Does separation hurt? The impact of premature termination of R&D alliances on knowledge acquisition and innovation	17
Complementarity formation mechanisms in technology value chains	17
When do firms get ideas from hiring PhDs?	17
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	17
Crowdsourcing research questions in science	17
Cross-border effects of R&D tax incentives	17
The role of data for AI startup growth	17
Can antitrust law enforcement spur innovation? Antitrust regulation of patent consolidation and its impact on follow-on innovations	17
The authenticity premium: Balancing conformity and innovation in high technology industries	17
Exploring the dynamics of novelty production through exaptation: a historical analysis of coal tar-based innovations	17