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Workforce sleep and corporate innovation

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105191

Gianni De Bruyn , Paul G. Freed

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Great expectations: The promises and limits of innovation policy in addressing societal challenges

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105184

Mart Laatsit , Markus Grillitsch , Lea Fünfschilling

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Access to science and innovation in the developing world

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105153

Alexander Cuntz , Frank Mueller-Langer , Alessio Muscarnera , Prince C. Oguguo , Marc Scheufen

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Recessions, institutions, and regional exploration

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105189

Amit Kumar , Elisa Operti

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Decline processes in technological innovation systems: Lessons from energy technologies

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105174

Nuno Bento , Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez , Noah Kittner

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Digital technology and inclusive development during global crisis: Evidence from a randomised experiment in Bangladesh

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105173

Xiaolan Fu , Pervez Ghauri , Jianan Lu

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A problem half-solved is a problem well-stated: Increasing the rate of innovation through team problem discovery

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105186

Johnathan R. Cromwell , Jean-François Harvey

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Unleashing creative potential: The role of stable institutional ownership in exploratory innovation

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105166

Xin Deng , Hesham Ali , Heba Aboelkheir

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Simmelian brokerage, tertius iungens orientation, and idea elaboration

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105185

Stefano Tasselli , Hongzhi Chen , Brian R. Dineen

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Is the supermultiplier currently nil? - A replication study of Deleidi and Mazzucato (2021)

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105176

Jens Boysen-Hogrefe

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