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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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Gender diversity in academic entrepreneurship: Social impact motives and the NSF I-corps program

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105169

April Burrage , Nilanjana Dasgupta , Ina Ganguli

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Accounting backgrounds and technological innovation: Are accountant CEOs inferior innovators?

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105175

Jian Cao , Feng Chen , Mingxiang Li , Xin Luo

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Innovation and zombie firms: Empirical evidence from Italy

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105172

Andrea Ascani , Lakshmi Balachandran Nair

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Gender biases in assistant professor recruitment: Does discipline matter?

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105170

Heike Solga , Alessandra Rusconi , Sophie Hofmeister

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Interpretive aspects of claim language and patent scope

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105171

Srinivasan Ananthraman , Bart Cambré , Henry Delcamp

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Does shareholder overlap alleviate patent holdup?

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105167

Heng Geng , Harald Hau , Sandy Lai , Pengfei Liu

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Open innovation in ecosystems: Exploring how the affiliation of an ecosystem partner impacts the benefits of collaboration in open innovation

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Research Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105168

Sohvi Heaton , Jungwon Min

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