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{"title":"Secondhand social capital and idea quality in open innovation communities","authors":"Elisa Mattarelli ,&nbsp;Aaron Schecter ,&nbsp;Pamela Hinds ,&nbsp;Noshir Contractor","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105332","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105332","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Open innovation communities provide valuable opportunities for creators from diverse backgrounds to collaboratively generate and refine new ideas that companies can implement in new products or services. However, many submitted ideas in these communities are underdeveloped or misaligned with companies' expectations, raising questions about what drives high-quality ideas and, more specifically, innovation potential. We focus on the role of secondhand social capital, i.e., the indirect network benefits an idea accrues through feedback from providers who are themselves actively engaged with other influential ideas in the community. While prior research has explored ego-centric or first-hand networks, we extend this work by examining how an idea's position within feedback networks shapes its elaboration and innovation potential. We argue that feedback from highly connected feedback providers confers greater visibility, legitimacy, and alignment with community expectations, thereby enhancing the quality of an idea. Using data from an open innovation platform for vehicle design, we find that secondhand social capital significantly predicts higher-quality ideas. By contrast, traditional measures of network constraint (e.g., closure, structural holes) are not consistently and significantly associated with idea quality. Further, our analysis suggests that when feedback is constructive and encouraging, the effect of secondhand social capital is stronger. Our findings contribute to theory by identifying secondhand social capital as a key mechanism linking network structure and idea quality. More broadly, this research bridges micro-level creativity and macro-level innovation literatures by emphasizing feedback through secondhand social capital as a linchpin connecting idea generation and implementation in decentralized, collaborative environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105332"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145159043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The political context of public sector innovation: A critical interpretive synthesis on Ukraine","authors":"Emre Cinar ,&nbsp;Oksana Prodius ,&nbsp;Ivan Sokoly ,&nbsp;Sercan Ozcan ,&nbsp;Ali Asker Guenduez","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105322","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105322","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation often sparks power struggles, redistributes resources, and challenges entrenched institutional legacies. Yet the role of power dynamics embedded in political contexts, particularly in non-Western countries, in shaping public sector innovation (PSI) has remained underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining how power dynamics at multiple levels and critical junctures have shaped PSI trajectories over time in Ukraine. Drawing on historical institutionalism and using a context-specific critical interpretive synthesis of 84 studies from 1991 to 2022, we reveal how critical junctures intensified PSI and enabled new innovation priorities. However, these moments were deeply conditioned by existing power dynamics across international, national and subnational political levels. While some innovations contributed to the redistribution of power, others were stalled or fragmented owing to path dependencies. This study makes two primary theoretical contributions: first, it reconceptualizes political context as a dynamic, multilevel arena of vertical and horizontal power contestations that shapes PSI; second, it extends PSI theory by demonstrating how critical junctures operate as temporally bounded periods of constrained agency, cumulatively shaping innovation trajectories. These insights advance our understanding of the complex interplays between political contexts, power dynamics, and temporality in PSI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105322"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145096625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How do CEOs seek advice from CMOs vs. CTOs in radical innovation decision making under uncertainty?","authors":"Ralf Wilden ,&nbsp;Nidthida Lin ,&nbsp;Francesco Chirico ,&nbsp;Saad Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105324","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105324","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In situations of high uncertainty, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) advice seeking is of critical importance to access additional knowledge to inform their strategic decisions, such as in relation to radical innovation. Yet, little research has investigated the underlying mechanisms of CEO advice seeking in radical innovation decisions – especially when CEOs face conflicting advice. Using data from two discrete choice experiments (249 CEOs and 155 CEOs, respectively), complemented by ten qualitative interviews with CEOs, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), we investigate how conflicting advice from CMOs and CTOs affects CEO choices in radical innovation projects, contingent on various degrees of market and technological uncertainty. Subsequently, by using additional survey data (166 CEOs), we assess how external advice seeking affects the relationship between advice seeking from CTOs and CMOs and firms' radical innovation performance under market and technological uncertainty. Given conflicting CMO vs. CTO advice, our results indicate that when a radical innovation project is characterized by high technological uncertainty, CEOs are more likely to choose radical innovation projects that the CTO supports, even if the CMO does not. Yet, surprisingly, we do not find that CEOs' radical innovation decisions are affected by CMOs' supporting advice when an innovation project faces high market uncertainty. Finally, we find that the positive effect of CEO advice seeking from CMOs (CTOs) on firms' radical innovation performance is strengthened if the CEO also seeks external advice under high market (technological) uncertainty.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105324"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond automation: The multifaceted impact of advanced digital technologies on employment dynamics","authors":"Hyunbae Chun ,&nbsp;Donghan Shin","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105321","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105321","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the employment effects of the firm-level adoption of advanced digital technologies (ADTs), such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things. In contrast to previous research that focuses on individual ADTs, we highlight the role of the simultaneous adoption of multiple ADTs and the motivations underlying this adoption. By integrating matched employer–employee data on job flows with firm-level ADT adoption records, we find that ADT adoption increases net job growth primarily by boosting new hires. This hiring-margin-driven employment effect remains consistent when ADTs are adopted in bundles or used for market creation (i.e., product and service development, sales, and marketing). Consequently, a positive employment effect is found only in the service sector, where multiple ADTs are more actively leveraged for market creation than in the manufacturing sector. Our results suggest that the reasons behind the contrasting empirical findings can be better understood by examining how firms practically utilize ADTs to enhance complementarities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105321"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145049996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating a breakthrough invention: NASA’s internal knowledge generation for the Space Shuttle","authors":"Raja Roy ,&nbsp;Curba Morris Lampert ,&nbsp;Francisco Polidoro Jr. ,&nbsp;Minyoung Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do organizations create a breakthrough invention by attaining the aspiration level of each performance attribute in the invention? Using an in-depth, historically grounded single-case study of the first reusable spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, we illustrate how NASA generated knowledge through two core mechanisms. First, through oscillation, they attained the aspiration level of a performance attribute before intentionally stepping away and returning to that goal later. Second, through accumulation, they attained the respective aspiration level of a limited number of performance attributes in a design and, over multiple design iterations, generated the knowledge to attain the aspiration level of each of the performance attributes. The findings highlight how knowledge generation at the intersection of oscillation and accumulation underpins breakthrough invention. While the literature has explored oscillation and accumulation separately, through our qualitative study, we uncover a knowledge generation process that integrates both mechanisms. In summary, our exploration of NASA's internal knowledge generation in creating the Space Shuttle advances existing literature by providing new insights into the search for satisficing solutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105313"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145049999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploratory innovation: A new perspective on family firms' under-diversification puzzle","authors":"Po-Hsuan Hsu ,&nbsp;Sterling Huang ,&nbsp;Massimo Massa ,&nbsp;Yaru Qian ,&nbsp;Hong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105320","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105320","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose a new perspective on family firms' puzzling under-diversification in product spaces: these firms first need to succeed in exploratory innovation so they may diversify into new product markets. We construct a large database of family ownership and patent records of U.S. public firms, and show that family firms produce more exploratory patents than others, a relation that is stronger among under-diversified family firms. In addition, we find that such innovation indeed helps family firms diversify business risks. A causal interpretation of our result is supported by (i) using the property division standard in state-level divorce laws as an instrumental variable and (ii) constructing a propensity score matched sample. This effect is also more pronounced among larger firms, older firms, and firms in industries with faster technology replacement. Our empirical evidence addresses family firms' under-diversification puzzle through the lens of innovation strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 10","pages":"Article 105320"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145005064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investor types and campaign dynamics in investment crowdfunding: A herding and collective action perspective","authors":"Helen Toxopeus ,&nbsp;Friedemann Polzin ,&nbsp;Wanxiang Cai ,&nbsp;Ronald Huisman","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105303","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digitisation has transformed, diversified, and democratised the venture finance field with the rise of investment crowdfunding. Early venture finance markets are characterised by unattractive risk–return propositions and high information asymmetries. The inflow of new investors through crowdfunding has raised concerns regarding the quality of their investment decisions. Herding and information cascades have been at the core of the theoretical explanations of campaign dynamics in investment crowdfunding. However, this interpretation ignores the role of public-good-type externalities produced by early ventures. Based on the assumption that early ventures produce double externalities – knowledge spillovers and sustainable or social impact – we propose viewing (crowd) investor behaviour and campaign dynamics through a herding and a collective action lens. We discuss how herding and collective action can explain investment types, behaviour, and investment crowdfunding dynamics. To understand public–private funding dynamics, we first identified four investor types: idealists, change agents, gain seekers, and professionals. This was done by combining and exploiting multiple datasets of three innovative early ventures' crowdfunding campaigns. Using platform transaction data, we used these types to predict investors' behaviours and to describe campaign dynamics. Using herding and collective action theory, we describe three mechanisms that shape campaign dynamics between types of investors: rational herding, gatekeeping, and reciprocating. We argue that the combination of the two aforementioned theoretical lenses offers an advanced understanding of investment crowdfunding and provides guidance for platforms and regulators to navigate the tension between access to finance for ventures and investor protection. For regulators, our results suggest withdrawing from a ‘one regulation protects all’ approach and instead tailoring measures to different investor types in order to advance digital and democratised early venture finance, taking into account private and public returns on their investment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 9","pages":"Article 105303"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144925116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The political extremes and innovation: How support for extreme parties shapes overall and green scientific research and technological innovation in Europe","authors":"Andrés Rodríguez-Pose ,&nbsp;Zhuoying You ,&nbsp;Peter Teirlinck","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the relationship between support for extreme political parties and research and innovation across regions in the European Union (EU). Extreme parties often exhibit deep scepticism towards expertise and science, with extreme right-wing parties, in particular, challenging the legitimacy of climate change; an attitude that may weaken green research and innovation. We draw on data from 1137 EU regions —including scientific publication and patent records— and apply Tobit regression models to find that stronger support for extreme parties is associated with lower levels of scientific research and technological innovation, both overall and in their green forms. While this pattern is visible across the political spectrum, important differences emerge. Support for extreme right-wing parties is consistently tied to reduced research output and innovation performance, particularly in green technological sectors. By contrast, the relationship with extreme left-wing support is more variable, depending on the degree of radicalism, and shows no consistent negative connection with green innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 9","pages":"Article 105307"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144866716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Talk social sciences to me”: Enhancing the dissemination of social sciences through mass media engagement","authors":"Quentin Plantec ,&nbsp;Julien Cloarec ,&nbsp;Cylien Gibert ,&nbsp;Marie-Alix Deval","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105291","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines mass media communication as a vital yet under-explored channel for disseminating social sciences. Drawing on the knowledge transfer and science communication literature, we identify specific Social Sciences Communication Barriers (SSCBs) that may hinder the effectiveness of mass media in this regard. These barriers include perceptions of lower expertise compared to STEM fields, heightened competition from non-academics, and difficulties aligning disciplinary expertise with public expectations. By means of a between-subjects experiment, we analyse responses to op-eds written by social scientists in economics, management science and sociology on business-related topics. Using a representative French sample (n = 1080), complemented by replication studies in two other European contexts, we find that social scientists benefit from an “academic premium” in terms of credibility that significantly enhances engagement with their audiences, thus supporting the effectiveness of mass media as a dissemination channel—but solely when addressing topics aligned with their disciplinary expertise. Conversely, this premium is diminished when academics also act as consultants. This study addresses calls for further research on knowledge dissemination in the social sciences and offers insights for scholars, institutions, and policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 9","pages":"Article 105291"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does public R&D funding reinforce regional disparities? Exploring the changing geography of public and business R&D expenditure in Europe","authors":"Rune Dahl Fitjar","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105312","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105312","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concentration of R&amp;D investments in regions with strong local capabilities helps these regions pull further ahead in the innovation economy, driving spatial inequality. While there is growing awareness of this geographic dark side of innovation, the role of public R&amp;D funding has largely been overlooked. Yet, the unintended spatial effects of public R&amp;D funding tend to far outweigh the impacts of regional policy (Sternberg, 1996). Public R&amp;D spending is often concentrated in developed regions, meaning that it may in practice work as an anti-regional policy (Forth and Jones, 2020). This paper examines the geography of public R&amp;D funding in European subnational regions and its development over time, using data from Eurostat for 200 regions between 2009 and 2018. First, the paper examines which regions attract public R&amp;D funding. More developed regions tend to receive more public R&amp;D funding, mainly because of their higher business R&amp;D funding and human capital. Second, the paper analyses whether public R&amp;D funding is converging across regions. There is unconditional beta-convergence in public R&amp;D expenditure but no evidence of sigma-convergence. For business R&amp;D expenditure, the initial disparities are higher but there is evidence of both beta- and sigma-convergence. The paper concludes that public R&amp;D funding tends to direct resources towards more well-endowed regions and shows no signs of sigma-convergence. Research and policy addressing regional inequality and the dark side of innovation should pay more attention to the spatial distribution also of public R&amp;D funding.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 9","pages":"Article 105312"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144829981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}