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{"title":"Assessing the productivity and abatement effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment","authors":"Jason Campbell ,&nbsp;Steven Levkoff","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How does environmental regulation affect productivity <em>and</em> emissions? Measuring these disparate effects is important for effective eco-policy design, but these channels have been difficult to disentangle. We leverage a new methodology to model the joint production of output and multiple pollutants at the plant level. Exploiting variation from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment, our novel and versatile Generalized By-production approach allows us to conduct the first evaluation of the policy that explicitly models efficiencies of output (electricity), as well as efficiencies of NO_x and SO₂ reductions for coal-fired power plants. Our analysis highlights not only the production-pollution trade-off plants face, but also complementary effects of pollution abatement <em>across</em> pollutants. We show that the 1990 announcement of the policy induced anticipatory responses despite the regulation not requiring strict compliance until 1995. Plants forced to comply with the policy’s Phase I SO₂ reductions (i.e. assigned nonattainment designation), on average, suffered greater efficiency losses in productivity and showed larger improvements in both pollutant reductions, relative to lightly regulated (attainment) plants. Regulation-induced impacts vary by plant vintage, state environmental quality, and eco-friendly behaviors. Crucially, improvements in pollutant reductions outweigh the countervailing contractions in electricity generation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105145"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from chemistry","authors":"Shumin Qiu ,&nbsp;Claudia Steinwender ,&nbsp;Pierre Azoulay","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China’s rise in science has the potential to push forward the knowledge frontier, but mere production of knowledge does not guarantee that others are able to build on it. We ask whether chemistry research originating from China offers broad shoulders for follow-on scientists to stand on. We show that even after carefully controlling for the quality of Chinese research, Chinese scientists’ articles receive on average 28% fewer citations from US researchers, relative to scientists from other countries. Only Chinese researchers with unusually deep networks in the US can overcome, at least in part, the citation discount.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105147"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutionalising the digital transition: The role of digital innovation intermediaries","authors":"Ana Colovic ,&nbsp;Annalisa Caloffi ,&nbsp;Federica Rossi ,&nbsp;Margherita Russo","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine how digital innovation intermediaries, mandated to support the digital transition as part of digital policy agendas, engage in institutional work to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of digital technologies. Building on neoinstitutional theory and the socio-technical transitions literature, our investigation aims to uncover intermediaries' institutional work on cultural-cognitive, normative, and regulative institutions across three levels of intermediation: organisation-, network- and ecosystem level. Based on a large evidence base related to 18 publicly-funded digital innovation intermediaries in France, including primary and secondary sources, we uncover the various forms of institutional work intermediaries engage in while facilitating the digital transition. We find that intermediaries' institutional work focuses on disrupting symbolic systems, creating relational systems and artefacts, and creating and maintaining routines. Intermediaries carry out different kinds of institutional work at different levels of intermediation. Furthermore, different types of intermediaries focus on distinct levels of intermediation and different institutions. Implications for policy and management are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105146"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the role of internal governance units in the process of social innovation: The case of Shared Lives Plus in England","authors":"Carl Purcell ,&nbsp;Jill Manthorpe ,&nbsp;Juliette Malley","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid increasing demand for public services and stretched resources policymakers often promote ‘social innovation’ to address these tensions. However, critics argue that social innovation may just be a ‘fashionable concept’ or ‘buzzword’ in public policy discourse and that more empirical research is needed to help improve our understanding of the actors and mechanisms that drive effective social innovations. In response this article draws upon a case study of the development of Shared Lives as an alternative national model of adult social care in England over the past 40 years. Drawing on interviews with 50 individuals carried-out between late-2021 and early-2023, including those involved in four different local schemes, we highlight the positive role played by the organisation Shared Lives Plus, which we conceptualise as an ‘internal governance unit’ (IGU), in terms of establishing and maintaining a ‘community innovation infrastructure’. However, the example of Shared Lives also illustrates the difficult challenges IGUs can face in trying to move social innovations beyond an institutional ‘niche’.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105152"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Case study research on innovation systems: Paradox, dialectical analysis and resolution","authors":"Thanos Fragkandreas","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper addresses a largely unnoticed methodological paradox regarding the scientific status of case study research on innovation systems (ISs). Case study research has been the methodological catalyst for the genesis and establishment of the ISs approach, as one of the most widely used theoretical and policy-relevant perspectives on innovation in the social sciences. However, many ISs scholars believe that this type of research is not scientific enough. To deepen our understanding of the case study paradox, this paper utilises the dialectical method (also known as dialectics); in particular, the analytical triad of thesis (affirmation), antithesis (negation), and synthesis (transformation). It is shown that a dialectical resolution to the case study paradox involves a three-phase process. First, the analysis introduces the <strong><em>deductive thesis</em></strong>, which, based on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, posits that case study research on ISs cannot investigate causality and generality. The second step formulates the <strong><em>retroductive antithesis</em></strong>, which, based on the retroductive model of science, holds that case study research inherently possesses the ability to infer causality and generality. The third and final phase transforms the contradiction between the deductive thesis and the retroductive antithesis into a new methodological perspective, the <strong><em>detroductive synthesis</em></strong>, wherein – depending on the model of scientific explanation – case study research is both incapable (deductive thesis) and capable (retroductive antithesis) of inferring causality and generality. Overall, the analysis enables IS scholars to conduct case study research in a paradox-free, stand-alone, causal-explanatory, and generalisable way. The paper ends by discussing thought-provoking implications for research practice, the peer-review process, and the evaluation of innovation policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105136"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyone steps back? The widespread retraction of crowd-funding support for minority creators when migration fear is high","authors":"John (Jianqiu) Bai ,&nbsp;William Kerr ,&nbsp;Chi Wan ,&nbsp;Alptug Y. Yorulmaz","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The funding gap for minorities more than doubles in the most inflamed periods compared to baseline. Results are especially acute for Hispanic creators. Distant, mostly white backers are typically important for projects reaching a critical threshold of funding support. Retractions in support for minority creators during tense periods are even spatially, as present in liberal cities as in conservative ones.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105141"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593947","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 Nobel “Pride” Phenomenon: An analysis of Nobel Prize discoveries and their recognition","authors":"Max von Zedtwitz ,&nbsp;Tobias Gutmann ,&nbsp;Pascal Engelmann","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105150","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Nobel Prize is considered one of the highest forms of recognition of scientific accomplishment, conferring immense prestige upon its recipients. Given the significant time lag between the award and the discovery, Nobel Prizes are bestowed to individuals associated with institutions and countries other than the original place of the discovery. Contextualizing our research in status-seeking literature, we define the imprecise and sometimes excessive appropriation of Nobel Prizes by institutions and even countries as the “Nobel ‘Pride’ Phenomenon”. Our empirical analysis focuses on the time and location of the 653 discoveries underlying each of the 350 Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, and chemistry until 2024. About one-third of all Nobel laureates came from another institution or country. Furthermore, Nobel Prize creativity is highly concentrated, with more than 80 % of discoveries made in just five countries. These findings cast new light on the Nobel laureates' demographics, geographic and historical movements, and institutional affiliations, and have implications for research policy at institutions and national levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105150"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142593948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family CEO and radical innovation: A stewardship perspective","authors":"Lorenzo Ardito ,&nbsp;Ivan Miroshnychenko ,&nbsp;Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli ,&nbsp;Alfredo De Massis","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article integrates the literature on radical innovation, the stewardship perspective, and family business research to develop and test a model examining the influence of a family CEO and the CEO's generational stage on radical innovation, considering different types of family CEOs as distinct manifestations of strategic leaders' stewardship behavior. Furthermore, building on the notion of “doing more with less”, we propose and empirically test the notion of “doing better with less”—specifically, whether the presence of a family CEO enhances the pursuit of radical innovation under resource constraints (i.e., with lower R&amp;D intensity). Using longitudinal data over an 11-year period from 227 listed firms in the automotive and pharma/biotech industries from 29 countries, we find that firms led by a family CEO, especially those led by descendants, excel at radical innovation. Descendant-led firms are also better at radical innovation with lower R&amp;D intensity, suggesting they do better with less. That is, our study shows that family CEOs at a later generational stage serve as catalysts for radical innovation, even under resource constraints. In addition to implications for theory and practice, our findings offer a more advanced understanding of the strategic leadership-innovation relationship in terms of distinct manifestations of stewardship behavior for radical innovation in firms with family leadership.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105144"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579037","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":"Adapting to policy changes: How firms' R&D responses affect their performance","authors":"Xue Gao ,&nbsp;Fang Zhang ,&nbsp;Siyang Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While researchers have shown considerable interest in investigating the effects of external shocks—such as financial, health, or environmental crises—on innovation, the impact of policy shocks, another critical type of external shocks, on innovation has been largely overlooked despite the rising political and policy disruptions on a global scale. To address this research gap, this study examines how firms adjust their R&amp;D investment in response to adverse policy shocks and the subsequent impact on their performance. The empirical context is an unexpected and significant subsidy reduction policy in the Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in 2018. Using a combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences models, we provide causal evidence of heterogeneous R&amp;D adjustments amidst negative policy changes: while many firms reduced their R&amp;D investment, some unexpectedly increased it. The policy shock, therefore, results in an overall insignificant impact on R&amp;D investments across the industry. Furthermore, we find that increasing R&amp;D investment as a reaction to policy shock is associated with an increase of 294 million renminbi (RMB) (approximately 40 million USD) in revenue or 30 million RMB (approximately 4 million USD) in profits on average. Our results suggest that R&amp;D investments demonstrate a certain degree of resilience in the face of adverse policy shocks, serving as a protective measure for firms during such policy shifts. However, given the tendency of most firms to reduce R&amp;D investments in response to adverse policy changes, these shifts may impede technological progress among less capable and resourceful firms, potentially jeopardizing their survival and contributing to a more concentrated market structure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105143"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142579036","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":"Culture of impact in agricultural research organisations: What for and how?","authors":"Marie Ferré ,&nbsp;Genowefa Blundo-Canto ,&nbsp;Geraldo Stachetti Rodrigues ,&nbsp;María-Margarita Ramírez-Gómez ,&nbsp;Graciela Luzia Vedovoto ,&nbsp;Beatriz-Elena Agudelo-Chocontá ,&nbsp;Daniela Vieira Marques ,&nbsp;Roberto Manolio Valladão Flores ,&nbsp;Gonzalo-Alfredo Rodríguez-Borray ,&nbsp;Mirian Oliveira de Souza ,&nbsp;Frédéric Goulet ,&nbsp;Ángela-Rocío Vásquez-Urriago ,&nbsp;Juliana-Ivonne Sánchez-Lozano ,&nbsp;Daniela Maciel Pinto ,&nbsp;Gregorio-Salomón Zambrano-Moreno ,&nbsp;María-Aidé Londoño-Arias ,&nbsp;Cristóbal-Alfonso Zapata-Tamayo ,&nbsp;Aurelle de Romémont","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research organisations experience increasing demands to analyse on the multidimensional societal impacts of their activities. This leads to more reflections about the integration of organisational strategies devoted to research evaluation and impact monitoring, in order to answer societal and funder's demands, improve research practices, and make research and innovations more transformative to society. Establishing a “culture of impact” within an organisation is driven by multiple factors and translates into a variety of changes at different organisational levels. We aim to understand what motivates agricultural research organisations to develop a culture of impact, and the consequences of this culture on research, management, and collaboration practices. For this, we analyse organisational trajectories of three research organisations: the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Cirad), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), and the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (AGROSAVIA). Through a cross-analysis of these cases along the reasons to integrate impact evaluation in strategic agendas, the materialisation of a culture of impact in practice, and what it entails in terms of cognitive and practical changes within their respective staff and management structures, we highlight drivers and patterns of development of a culture of impact, and circumstances that seem to either favour or hinder its emergence. This study is unique for examining various types of changes that a culture of impact can generate among individuals, in particular. It offers valuable material to enable re-interrogate and orient a research organisation's culture of impact's path in accordance with organisational values, priorities, and opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 1","pages":"Article 105140"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142573190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}