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{"title":"Responsible north–south research and innovation: A framework for transdisciplinary research leadership and management","authors":"Matthew A. French ,&nbsp;S. Fiona Barker ,&nbsp;Rebekah Henry ,&nbsp;Amelia Turagabeci ,&nbsp;Ancha Ansariadi ,&nbsp;Autiko Tela ,&nbsp;Diego Ramirez-Lovering ,&nbsp;Fitriyanty Awaluddin ,&nbsp;Ihsan Latief ,&nbsp;Isoa Vakarewa ,&nbsp;Ruzka R. Taruc ,&nbsp;Tony Wong ,&nbsp;Brett Davis ,&nbsp;Rebekah Brown ,&nbsp;Karin Leder ,&nbsp;for the RISE consortium","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The number, scale and ambition of transdisciplinary research initiatives between the global north and the global south is increasing, yet there is very little theoretical or empirical scholarship on how to lead and manage implementation to promote responsible practice. Within science, technology and innovation (STI) studies and decolonising research frameworks, and utilising collaborative autoethnography, this study codifies experience with implementing the ‘Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments’ (RISE) program (2017–2020). Our specific aim is to explore the leadership and management tensions and challenges of implementing transboundary transdisciplinary research. The findings reaffirm the importance of research leaders and managers carefully operationalising north–south research by critically reflecting on power asymmetries between disciplines, partners and locations, leveraging the potential for transdisciplinary consortia to build research capabilities in the global south, and creating a culture of reflexivity on the historical and social positionality in which research is designed, funded, implemented and evaluated. The findings foreground the role of boundary-spanning ‘integrators’ and ‘pracademics’, roles that have received little attention to date but are essential for effective delivery and societal impact beyond scientific advances. A framework for implementing north–south transdisciplinary research is outlined with five domains: (1) collaborative leadership; (2) agile management; (3) flexible consortia; (4) researcher positionality; and (5) co-design and participation. The framework can support efforts for responsibly designing and implementing large, transdisciplinary, cross-country research programs in line with ambitions for decolonising north–south research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105048"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324000970/pdfft?md5=be38450ce5e36655b617c33f22e30d94&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733324000970-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487607","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":"ERC science and invention: Does ERC break free from the EU Paradox?","authors":"Jay Prakash Nagar ,&nbsp;Stefano Breschi ,&nbsp;Andrea Fosfuri","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We explore the relationship between government-supported science and its translation into inventive activities, focusing on the European Research Council (ERC), the principal funding mechanism for top-quality research in Europe. We show that, compared to similar European research, ERC science accrues a greater number of patent citations. Moreover, patents that draw upon ERC research are of superior quality, measured by forward citations. Compared to similar European research, inventive activities arising from ERC science are more likely to be housed within universities and public research organizations. In absolute terms, however, US organizations, especially US companies, still lead in deriving the greatest benefits from ERC science. The significant disparity in corporate sector patenting linked to ERC science in the US and EU is fueled by inventions undertaken by startups, highlighting the crucial role of a dynamic startup landscape in driving inventions at the frontier of science. Overall, our findings suggest that ERC science continues to face challenges associated with the so-called European Paradox.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 8","pages":"Article 105038"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324000878/pdfft?md5=498bc311cda40c4841617a62485c5c80&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733324000878-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487625","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":"Innovation attitudes and religiosity","authors":"Duygu Buyukyazici ,&nbsp;Francesco Serti","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of religiosity on innovation has been a topic of great interest among scholars, yet its inherent complexity and endogeneity render empirical analysis a challenging task. In order to untangle these issues, our study employs a multi-faceted approach, drawing on various measures of religiosity and implementing an instrumental variable strategy within an individual-level innovation framework. We analyse the effect of religiosity on individual attitudes that are either favourable or unfavourable to innovation, capturing different aspects of an individual’s propensity to innovate. The results strongly suggest that each measure of religiosity has a somewhat negative effect on innovation attitudes. The robustness checks and sensitivity analyses support the main findings. We propose three channels from religion to innovation: time allocation, the fear of uncertainty, and conventional roles reinforced by religion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105051"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324001008/pdfft?md5=b051a65feb0ad8a5a6175c44a251917f&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733324001008-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141434796","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":"Does corruption have a sanding or greasing impact on innovation? Reconciling the contrasting perspectives through a systematic literature review","authors":"Shoeb Mohammad ,&nbsp;Jie Yang ,&nbsp;Irfan Butt","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There has been a significant increase in the number of academic studies published on the relationship between corruption and innovation in recent years. Various relationships have been conceptualized, including the “sand” and “grease” perspectives which propose that corruption reduces and increases innovation, respectively. In light of interest in the topic showing growing momentum, we review the literature on corruption and innovation for the purpose of reconciling these proposed theoretical perspectives. Following a systematic literature review methodology, we explain the composition of the literature and map the key conceptualizations of the corruption-innovation relationship. We link the variables, measures, and theories employed in the literature to proposed conceptual relationships. Furthermore, we outline the key patterns in which the sanding or greasing impact is more likely to be observed. Based on the systematic review, we propose a research agenda for corruption-innovation research and discuss policy implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105036"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141328800","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":"Employment protection laws and the commercialization of new products: A cross-country study","authors":"Maarten Cerpentier ,&nbsp;Anja Schulze ,&nbsp;Tom Vanacker ,&nbsp;Shaker A. Zahra","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although there are opposing theoretical arguments on the relationship between the strength of a country's employment protection laws (EPLs) and innovation, empirical evidence tilts towards a positive relationship. However, research has mainly focused on the early stages of the innovation process, such as R&amp;D and patenting. This study examines the role of EPLs in the later stages of the innovation process: the commercialization of new products. In particular, we focus on EPLs' relationship with two different new product commercialization outcomes: the launch and subsequent sales of new products. Using data on small European firms, we find that, controlling for invention, stricter EPLs are <em>negatively</em> associated with firms' likelihood of launching new products, but <em>positively</em> associated with the sales from new products. We discuss the implications of our results for theory and practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105039"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004873332400088X/pdfft?md5=92f5f34a659f82e230ce56d92f1915cd&pid=1-s2.0-S004873332400088X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141313589","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":"Pandemic effects: Do innovation activities of firms suffer from Long COVID?","authors":"Markus Trunschke ,&nbsp;Bettina Peters ,&nbsp;Dirk Czarnitzki ,&nbsp;Christian Rammer","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic exogenously hit many economies early 2020. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a conditional difference-in-differences design to causally identify how COVID-19 impacted firms’ innovation spending in the short and medium term. Based on a representative sample of German firms, we find that firms that were strongly negatively treated by COVID-19 substantially reduced innovation spending not only in the first year of the pandemic (2020) but also in the two subsequent years, indicating ‘Long COVID’ effects on innovation. Firms with higher pre-treatment digital capabilities showed higher innovation resilience during the pandemic. Moreover, COVID-19 also led to a decrease in innovation spending in those firms that were positively treated by COVID-19 through an unexpected positive demand shock, presumably to increase production capacity. Overall, these short and medium-term innovation reactions have a substantial repercussion on the macro level. In 2020, innovation expenditure fell by 4.7% due to COVID-19. In 2022, innovation spending was even 5.4% lower compared to the counterfactual scenario without the pandemic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105024"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141298157","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":"Economic impacts of AI-augmented R&D","authors":"Tamay Besiroglu ,&nbsp;Nicholas Emery-Xu ,&nbsp;Neil Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105037","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since its emergence around 2010, deep learning has rapidly become the most important technique in Artificial Intelligence (AI), producing an array of scientific firsts in areas as diverse as protein folding, drug discovery, integrated chip design, and weather prediction. As scientists and engineers adopt deep learning, it is important to consider what effect widespread deployment would have on scientific progress and, ultimately, economic growth. We assess this impact by estimating the idea production function for AI in two computer vision tasks that are considered key test-beds for deep learning and show that AI idea production is notably more capital-intensive than traditional R&amp;D. Because increasing the capital-intensity of R&amp;D accelerates the investments that make scientists and engineers more productive, our work suggests that AI-augmented R&amp;D has the potential to speed up technological change and economic growth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105037"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324000866/pdfft?md5=24bc0541ea5d2dd0e378272ab9064a33&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733324000866-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141290337","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":"Hedgehogs, foxes, and global science ecosystems: Decoding universities' research profiles across fields with nested ecological networks","authors":"Charles J. Gomez ,&nbsp;Dahlia Lieberman ,&nbsp;Elina I. Mäkinen","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Modern scientific research evokes ecological imagery and metaphors, given that it is global, interdependent, and diverse. Ecological network structures—like matrices of species inhabiting islands across an archipelago—can be reordered to form nested patterns. These patterns describe the overall health of ecosystems, place species on a spectrum between being described as generalists (foxes) or specialists (hedgehogs), and which of these interactions might appear or disappear. Using the number of citations universities receive for work published in a particular subfield taken from over 66 million scientific publications in OpenAlex, we construct and analyze yearly nested ecological networks of a dozen academic fields between 1990 and 2017. We find increasingly nested structures across fields infer future acknowledgment in different subfields. We argue that this framework can inform policy on scientific research and university funding and evaluation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105040"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141290336","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":"Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms","authors":"Nianchen Han ,&nbsp;Yuchen Zhang ,&nbsp;Tony W. Tong","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has rarely studied how innovators conduct knowledge search in response to an increased risk that their original ideas may be imitated (i.e., duplicative imitation threat). We address this gap by focusing on a duplicative imitation threat common to digital platforms, which allows for the entry of pirated software at a low cost with rapid distribution and presents a significant appropriability risk to the original software developers. We treat the jailbreak of Apple's iOS 7 that enabled Apple users to install pirated apps as an exogenous shock that increases such a threat, and adopt a quasi-experiment design in our study. Our empirical analysis shows that after the jailbreak, iOS app developers increase their search depth and reduce their search scope compared to Android app developers. Our findings imply that innovators' adjustment in their knowledge search is contingent upon specific characteristics of the imitation threat they face.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105028"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141250794","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 reality in the DRC is just not the reality in Rwanda” – How context factors affect transdisciplinary research projects","authors":"Rea Pärli ,&nbsp;Moustapha Byamungu ,&nbsp;Manuel Fischer ,&nbsp;Speciose Kantengwa ,&nbsp;Kokou Kintche ,&nbsp;Matieyedou Konlambigue ,&nbsp;Eva Lieberherr ,&nbsp;Johan Six ,&nbsp;Benjamin Wilde ,&nbsp;Leonhard Späth","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2024.105035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transitioning toward more sustainable livelihoods requires tackling complex challenges in innovative ways. Positioned at the intersection of innovation and transition studies, transdisciplinary research (TD) has surfaced as a method to confront sustainability challenges by integrating various scientific disciplines and engaging non-academic stakeholders. Currently, there is a growing call from both policy makers and research funders to assess the effects of TD research, especially its societal impacts. However, TD research typically involves local projects where the context may substantially shape the effects of the research conducted. In this paper we explore how understanding the context factors of a TD project contributes to the understanding of its effects. We built a working model, based on different established concepts from policy studies to conceptualize context and effects of TD project. We applied the model to a comparative case study of two regional sub-projects of one large TD project on circular bioeconomy for sustainable agriculture in Sub Saharan Africa. The core concept and design were the same for both subprojects, but they achieved different effects. We studied the differences in context factors to explain this variation. We found that a strongly developed public and private sector and access to a variety of action resources such as political support or laws, supported the implementation of innovations as well as dialogue with policy. Nevertheless, a strong public sector can also hinder a project's success, if the interest of the government is not in line with the interests of the project. Further, we found that TD projects may achieve learning and social effects by tackling certain gaps in action resources. Our findings highlight that taking the context of a project into account is key to understanding the scope of action and possibilities of a project. Thus, the context should be considered not only when planning but also - and especially - when evaluating a TD project.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"53 7","pages":"Article 105035"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733324000842/pdfft?md5=23cb8da7cd8130794bd6d39ecbdeb15e&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733324000842-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141244925","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}