Research Policy

Article	Citations
OrgTech: Evidence of organizational innovations in patent data	348
War and Transition	284
An identity perspective on the diffusion of user innovations in the household sector	273
Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance	223
Technological invention and local labour markets: Evidence from France, Germany and the UK	188
Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists	170
Editorial Board	154
Characterising innovation policy mixes in innovation systems	154
Social movements and institutional entrepreneurship as facilitators of technology transition: The case of free/open-source software	148
Does FDI bring knowledge externalities for host country firms to develop complex technologies? The catalytic role of overseas returnee clustering structures	134
The Kaldor–Verdoorn law at the age of robots and AI	133
Institutional quality and success in U.S. equity crowdfunding	131
From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity	114
Measurement errors and estimation biases with incomplete social networks: replication studies on intra-firm inventor network analysis	113
Firm R&D investment and export market exposure	107
Academics engaging in knowledge transfer and co-creation: Push causation and pull effectuation?	100
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)	93
Secondary market listings in equity crowdfunding: The missing link?	91
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
Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation	87
Patents, industry control, and the rise of the giant American corporation	81
Disentangling international research collaboration in the Spanish academic context: Is there a desirable researcher human capital profile?	80
Storm crowds: Evidence from Zooniverse on crowd contribution design	80
The impacts of U.S. Section 337 investigations on Chinese technology firms	78
Copyright levies and cloud storage: Ex-ante policy evaluation with a field experiment	78

Unbundling the impact of current and future competition on cooperation in coopetition projects for innovation	77
How fast is this novel technology going to be a hit? Antecedents predicting follow-on inventions	77
Founder social capital and value appropriation in R&D alliance agreements	77
Entrepreneurship in Cities	75
Transformational complexity, systemic complexity and economic development	75
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	73
Disclosure rules and declared essential patents	73
Wolves at the door to the unknown: Innovation search and hedge fund activism	72
Home vs office: Does workspace design influence where academics conduct their research?	71
Economic complexity and the green economy	71
OK computer: Worker perceptions of algorithmic recruitment	70
Death squad or quality improvement? The impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent legal quality	70
From mainstream to niche: How value regimes shift in emerging economy upgrading	70
Money matters: The role of money as a regional and corporate financial resource for circular economy transition at firm-level	69
Are intellectual property rights working for society?	67
The bidirectional causality of tie stability and innovation performance	64
Focusing the ecosystem lens on innovation studies	64
Does local knowledge spillover matter for firm productivity? The role of financial access and corporate governance	59
Technological capability strength/asymmetry and supply chain process innovation: The contingent roles of institutional environments	59
Dynamics of first-time patenting firms	58
The Government Patent Register: A new resource for measuring U.S. government-funded patenting	57
The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors	57
Editorial Board	55
Richard R Nelson (1930–2025): Evolutionary economist and innovation scholar	55
Investment in intangible assets and economic complexity	53
How do policy instruments generate new ones? Analysing policy instruments feedback and interaction in educational research in England, 1986-2014	53
Are ideas being fished out?	51
Membership, governance, and lobbying in standard-setting organizations	51
Gender differences in the determinants of becoming a professor in Germany. An event history analysis of academic psychologists from 1980 to 2019	51
Unpacking the process of resource allocation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem	50
The March of the Techies: Job Polarization Within and Between Firms	50
Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms	50
Winning the second race of technology standardization: Strategic maneuvers in SEP follow-on innovations	50
Nest without birds: Inventor mobility and the left-behind patents	48
The complex nature of regional knowledge production: Evidence on European regions	47
How do university-firm interactions affect firm innovation speed? The case of Chinese science-intensive SMEs	47
Innovation effects of academic executives: Evidence from China	46
Innovation, growth and the transition to net-zero emissions	46
Free-riding in academic co-authorship: The marginalization of research students	45
Editorial Board	45
The governance of open science: A comparative analysis of two open science consortia	45
How does the social economy contribute to social and environmental innovation? Evidence of direct and indirect effects from a European survey	45
Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration	44
Hybrid governance of platform entrepreneurs	44
Tracing productivity growth channels in the UK	44
“Perspective: Promoting and fostering multidisciplinary research in universities”	44
Access to science and innovation in the developing world	44
Research funding and collaboration	44
What makes the right OSS contributor tick? Treatments to motivate high-skilled developers	44

Institutionalizing social entrepreneurship in the Global South: How intermediaries work around the indigenous solidarity economy in Colombia	44
A simple measure of economic complexity	43
The process of framing innovation activities: How strategic leaders erode their ideas for radical innovations	43
Next-generation consumer innovation search: Identifying early-stage need-solution pairs on the web	43
Brokerage evolution in innovation contexts: Formal structure, network neighborhoods and knowledge	42
Adjusting to the digital: Societal outcomes and consequences	42
Towards regional scientific integration in Africa? Evidence from co-publications	42
Reaching beyond low-hanging fruit: Basic research and innovativeness	42
A composite indicator analysis for optimizing entrepreneurial ecosystems	41
Against misleading technocratic precision in research evaluation and wider policy – A response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘uncertainty and risk-taking in science’	41
Project-oriented agency and regeneration in socio-technical transition: Insights from the case of numerical weather prediction (1978–2015)	41
Digitalization and resilience	41
The governance of artificial intelligence: Harnessing opportunities and mitigating challenges	41
The dynamics of abandoned innovation activities: Learning from failure or learning to prevent failure?	40
Harnessing the science base: Results from a national programme using publicly-funded research centres to reshape firms’ R&D	40
Editorial Board	39
How media portrayal of CEO overconfidence impacts radical innovation	39
Unexpectedness in medical research	39
Profiting from innovation when digital business ecosystems emerge: A control point perspective	38
Miss or match? The impact of PhD training on job market satisfaction	38
Assessing the effects of a deliberate policy mix: The case of technology and innovation advisory services and innovation vouchers	38
Innovation failure, training for innovative activities and public support for innovation: Multi-annual evidence from emerging European innovation systems	38
Technology discontinuation as a continuous process: diesel, sustainability, and the politics of delay	37
Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective	37
The interdependent influence of lobbying and intellectual capital on new drug development	37
Coevolution of job automation risk and workplace governance	36
The heterogeneous effects of environmental taxation on green technologies	36
Resource orchestration, socioemotional wealth, and radical innovation in family firms: Do multifamily ownership and generational involvement matter?	36
On the emergence of interdisciplinary scientific fields: (how) does it relate to science convergence?	36
Patent Toxicity	36
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity	36
How do global manufacturing shifts affect long-term clean energy innovation? A study of wind energy suppliers	36
Editorial Board	35
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	35
Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies	35
Big data and dynamic capabilities in the digital revolution: The hidden role of source variety	35
A question worth a million: The expert, the crowd, or myself? An investigation of problem solving	34
From virtuous to vicious cycles – towards a life cycle model of technology deployment policies	34
Hidden software and veiled value creation: Illustrations from server software usage	34
Comments on “Ranking researchers: Evidence from Indonesia” by Fry et al. (2023)	34
Examination incentives, learning, and patent office outcomes: The use of examiner’s amendments at the USPTO	34
Sitting on the Fence: Integrating the two worlds of scientific discovery and invention within the firm	34
Does language prevent policy take-up? Evidence from the Italian Start-up Act	34
R&D spillovers through RJV cooperation	34
Clean sweep: Electricity liberalization and the direction of technological change in the electricity sector	33
The use of rewards in the sharing of research resources	33
The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems	33
Threats and opportunities in the digital era: Automation spikes and employment dynamics	33
Knowledge spillover and entrepreneurship: Evidence from BITNET	33
Assessing differences between university and federal laboratory postdoctoral scientists in technology transfer	33
ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?	33
Green technological diversification: The role of international linkages in leaders, followers and catching-up countries	33
Does the complexity and embeddedness of knowledge recombination contribute to economic development? —— Observations from prefecture cities in China	32
Regional innovation networks & high-growth entrepreneurship	32
Biopiracy: Crying wolf or a lever for equity and conservation?	32
How and when adversity breeds ingenuity in an emerging market: Environmental threats, co-innovation, and frugal innovation	32
How Artificial Intelligence Technology Affects Productivity and Employment: Firm-level Evidence from Taiwan	32
The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards	32
Editorial Board	32
Editorial Board	32
Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry	32
Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation	32
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
Accommodating coercion: Authors, editors, and citations	31
The NBER Orange Book Dataset: A user’s guide	31
Procrastination or incomplete data? An analysis of USPTO examiner search activity	31
Another pathway to complementarity: How users and intermediaries identify and create new combinations in innovation ecosystems	30
Inventor mobility under uncertainty	30
Specialisation precedes diversification: R&D productivity effects	30
A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US	30
Batman forever? The role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry	30
Timing, modifications, and tenor of firms' mandatory R&D disclosures: The role of competition	30
The role of pre-innovation platform activity for diffusion success: Evidence from consumer innovations on a 3D printing platform	30
Human capital and trademarks: Evidence from higher education expansion in China	29
Interdisciplinary research and the societal visibility of science: The advantages of spanning multiple and distant scientific fields	29
From startup nation to open innovation nation: The evolution of open innovation activities within the Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem	29
Human capital in corporate venture capital units and its relation to parent firms' innovative performance	29
Knowledge path dependence, external connection, and radical inventions: Evidence from Chinese Academy of Sciences	29
Could machine learning be a general purpose technology? A comparison of emerging technologies using data from online job postings	29

Regulatory standards and consequences for industry architecture: The case of UK Open Banking	29
Exploring the effect of overlapping institutional applications on panel decision-making	29
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness	29
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and regional persistence of high growth firms: A ‘broken clock’ critique	28
A processual approach to skill changes in digital automation: The case of the platform economy in the service sector	28
From local markets to global legitimacy: A materialization perspective on technological innovation system's dynamics	28
Resolving the patents paradox in the era of COVID-19 and climate change: Towards a patents taxonomy	28
Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion	28
Evaluating the principle of relatedness: Estimation, drivers and implications for policy	28
Benefits beyond the local network: Does indirect international collaboration ties contribute to research performance for young scientists?	28
Introduction to the special section celebrating the centenary of Chris Freeman's birth	28
The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities	28
Mobile internet, skills and structural transformation in Rwanda	28
Editorial Board	27
Governance rigidity, industry evolution, and value capture in platform ecosystems	27
Designing grant-review panels for better funding decisions: Lessons from an empirically calibrated simulation model	27
Long waves in the geography of innovation: The rise and decline of regional clusters of creativity over time	27
Knowledge spillovers and intangible complementarities: Empirical case of European countries	27
Variety, complexity and economic development	27
The vexing but persistent problem of authorship misconduct in research	27
Litigate or let it go? Multi-market contact and IP infringement-litigation dynamics	26
Education premium and the compound impact of universities on their regional economy	26
Can the establishment of a personal data protection system promote corporate innovation?	26
Editorial Board	26
Paradoxical transparency? Capital market responses to exploration and exploitation disclosure	26
Measuring the technological bias of robot adoption and its implications for the aggregate labor share	26
Technological improvement rate predictions for all technologies: Use of patent data and an extended domain description	26
Editorial Board	26
The rich or the poor? Personal resources, do-it-yourself, and innovation in the household sector	26
Situating innovation policy in Mediterranean Arab countries: A research agenda for context sensitivity	26
Editorial Board	26
Inter-regional highly skilled worker mobility and technological novelty	25
PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared	25
Editorial Board	25
Global development agenda meets local opportunities: The rise of development-focused entrepreneurship support	25
Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D	25
Last Word on the Discussion regarding the paper: “Uncertainty and risk-taking in science: Meaning, measurement and management in peer review of research proposals”	25
Motivating innovation: The impact of prestigious talent funding on junior scientists	25
Global value chains and domestic innovation	25
R&D subsidies in permissive and restrictive environment: Evidence from Korea	25
Green Technologies and diversity in the knowledge search and output phases: Evidence from European Patents	24
Political tie hot potato: The contingent effect of China's anti-corruption policy on cash and innovation	24
Are patent offices substitutes?	24
Technological lock-in in action: Appraisal and policy commitment in Argentina's seed sector	24
Pork Barrel or Barrel of Gold? Examining the performance implications of earmarking in public R&D grants	24
CEO narcissism, subsidiary top management team international diversity, and radical digital innovation in multinational enterprises	24
The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge	24
Do scientific capabilities in specific domains matter for technological diversification in European regions?	24
Genealogical academic inbreeding and its effect on performance: Evidence for scientists at Dutch universities (1815–1943)	24
Staggered boards and product innovations: Evidence from Massachusetts State Bill HB 5640	23
Landmarks as lighthouses: firms' innovation and modes of exit during the business cycle	23
Exploring docility: A behavioral approach to interventions in business incubation	23
Configuration of inclusive innovation systems: Function, agents and capabilities	23
Servitization as a strategy for diffusing radical technologies: An analysis of U.S. top corporate R&D investors	23
Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams: A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers	23
Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector	23
Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means	22
Boundary-spanning technology search, product component reuse, and new product innovation: Evidence from the smartphone industry	22
Technological diversity of patent applications and decision pendency	22
Hype cycles during socio-technical transitions: The dynamics of collective expectations about renewable energy in Germany	22
The policy implications of economic complexity	22
Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data	22
Technological complexity and economic growth of regions	22
Local entrepreneurial ecosystems as configural narratives: A new way of seeing and evaluating antecedents and outcomes	22
Capturing information on global knowledge flows from patent transfers: An empirical study using USPTO patents	22
Editorial Board	22
The drivers of SME innovation in the regions of the EU	22
Workforce sleep and corporate innovation	21
Do R&D tax credits impact pharmaceutical innovation? Evidence from a synthetic control approach	21
A framework and databases for measuring entrepreneurial ecosystems	21
Dominance of leading business schools in top journals: Insights for increasing institutional representation	21
Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review	21
Anticipatory innovation of professional services: The case of auditing and artificial intelligence	20
Coworking spaces: An overview and research agenda	20
Exploring collective consumer innovation in health care: Cases and formal modeling	20
China's catching-up in artificial intelligence seen as a co-evolution of corporate and national innovation systems	20
Green patents and green trademarks as indicators of green innovation	20
Mapping Markush	20
The diffusion of scientific discoveries in government laboratories: The role of patents filed by government scientists	20
Technology transfer challenges in asymmetric alliances between high-technology and low-technology firms	20
A helping hand from the government? How public research funding affects academic output in less-prestigious universities in China	20
Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent	19
Entrepreneurial innovativeness: When too little or too much agglomeration hurts	19
Editorial Board	19
Standing your ground: Examining the signaling effects of patent litigation in university technology licensing	19
National core competencies and dynamic capabilities in times of crisis: Adaptive regulation of new entrants in advanced technology markets	19
Gendered knowledge in fields and academic careers	19
Endogeny in measuring research excellence. In-house publishing and conflict of interests in Polish science evaluation	19
Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage	19
Unintended consequences of outcome based compensation – How CEO bonuses, stocks and stock options affect their firms' patent litigation	19
The role of digital artefacts in early stages of distributed innovation processes	19
Why do firms publish? A systematic literature review and a conceptual framework	19
The impact of geotargeting on household information acquisition: Evidence from a Google News redesign	19
Transitioning to independence in medical research: A qualitative study using a systems theory perspective	19
Employees' entrepreneurial human capital and firm performance	19