SPRU Working Paper Series
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Our working papers
The SPRU Working Paper Series aims to accelerate the public availability of the research undertaken by SPRU-associated people of all categories, and exceptionally, other research that is of considerable interest within SPRU. It presents research results that in whole or part are suitable for submission to a refereed journal, to a sponsor, to a major conference or to the editor of a book. Our intention is to provide access to early copies of SPRU research.
Papers are listed in order from the most recent; select a heading to view working papers from that year.
- Read more information about the series, including submission guidelines
- An archive of papers from past years.
Recent papers
SWPS 2021-09: Drivers and effects of digitalisation on energy demand in low carbon scenarios
Noam Bergman and Tim Foxon
SWPS 2021-08: Green technologies, complementarities, and policy
Nicolò Barbieri, Alberto Marzucchi, and Ugo Rizzo
SWPS 2021-07: Appropriating the returns of patent statistics: Take-up and development in the wake of Zvi Griliches
Sandro Mendonça, Hugo Confraria, and Manuel Mira Godinho
SWPS 2021-06: The “Wheel of Logics”: Towards conceptualising stability of regimes and transformations in the Global South
Bipashyee Ghosh
SWPS 2021-05: A paradigm shift for decision-making in an era of deep and extended changes
Mauro Lombardi and Simone Vannuccini
SWPS 2021-04: Exploring the Antibiotics Innovation System and R&D policies in China: Mission Oriented Innovation?
Yuhan Bao, Adrian Ely, Michael Hopkins, Xianzhe Li and Yangmu Huang
SWPS 2021-03: Appraising research policy instrument mixes: a multicriteria mapping study in six European countries of diagnostic innovation to manage antimicrobial resistance
Josie Coburn, Frederique Bone, Michael M. Hopkins, Andy C. Stirling, Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz, Stathis Arapostathis and Martin J. Llewelyn
SWPS 2021-02: Artificial Intelligence’s New Clothes? From General Purpose Technology to Large Technical System
Simone Vannuccini and Ekaterina Prytkova
SWPS 2021-01: Exploring the links between research demand and supply: The case of Chagas
Valeria Arza and Agustina Colonna
More information
Disclaimer
The works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions.
Papers must be submitted in PDF or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to swps@sussex.ac.uk. The editors will process papers and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor.
Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-review, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process.
Referencing and feedback
Please reference papers in the usual way. Each paper contains information with regard to appropriate citation and users are advised that these 'pre-publication' versions are subject to alterations in the refereeing process. We shall also be grateful for feedback from users.
Copyright and journal submissions
Papers published in the SWPS remain the intellectual property of the author, and the author retains all copyrights. The purpose of the SWPS is to be an open-access source of research.
It is worth noting that most academic journals do allow the submission of papers that have been previously published in working paper series. However, authors are advised to .
Many academic journals also allow post-print publication, meaning authors may also be able to publish their work in the SWPS after it has been accepted for publication in a journal.
Previous editors
SPRU is grateful to Ed Steinmuller, Jim Watson, Stefano Brusoni, and Aldo Geuna for their contribution in managing the Working Paper series in past years.
Papers from past years
Select the year to view papers released at the time.
- 2020
SWPS 2020-20: Riskwork in the construction of Heathrow Terminal 2
Rebecca Vine
SWPS 2020-19: The Origin of the Sharing Economy Meets the Legacy of Fractional Ownership
Francesco Pasimeni
SWPS 2020-18: Sustainability and Industrial Challenge: The Hindering Role of Complexity
Tommaso Ciarli and Karolina Safarzynska
SWPS 2020-17: Interplay of Policy Experimentation and Institutional Change in Transformative Policy Mixes: The Case of Mobility as a Service in Finland
Paula Kivimaa and Karoline S. Rogge
SWPS 2020-16: Fostering Innovation Activities with the Support of a Development Bank: Evidence from Brazil
Marco Carreras
SWPS 2020-15: Tailoring Leadership to the Phase-Specific Needs of Large Scale Research Infrastructures
David Eggleton
SWPS 2020-14: Shaping the Directionality of Sustainability Transitions: The Diverging Development Patterns of Solar PV in Two Chinese Provinces
Kejia Yang, Johan Schot and Bernhard Truffer
SWPS 2020-13: The Wealth of (Open Data) Nations? Examining the Interplay of Open Government Data and Country-level Institutions for Entrepreneurial Activity at the Country-level
Franz Huber, Alan Ponce, Francesco Rentocchini and Thomas Wainwright
SWPS 2020-12: Capabilities for Transdisciplinary Research. An Evaluation Framework and Lessons from the ESRC Nexus Network +
Cian O’Donovan, Aleksandra (Ola) Michalec and Joshua R. Moon
SWPS 2020-11: Green Innovation and Income Inequality: A Complex System Analysis
Lorenzo Napolitano, Angelica Sbardella, Davide Consoli, Nicolò Barbieri and François Perruchas
SWPS 2020-10: The Saga of the Covid-19 Contact Tracing Apps: Lessons for Data Governance
Maria Savona
SWPS 2020-09: Subsidising Innovation over the Business Cycle
Isabel Busom and Jorge Vélez-Ospina
SWPS 2020-08: Going Revolutionary: The Impact of 4IR Technology Development on Firm Performance
Mario Benassi, Elena Grinza, Francesco Rentocchini and Laura Rondi
SWPS 2020-07: Accountability and Sustainability Transitions
Siddharth Sareen and Steven Wolf
SWPS 2020-06: Targeting Industrial Policy on Business Services: Rationales and Design for the Case of Chile
Andrés Madariaga
SWPS 2020-05: Pulling Effects in Migrant Entrepreneurship: Does Gender Matter?
Alessandra Colombelli, Elena Grinza, Valentina Meliciani and Mariacristina Rossi
SWPS 2020-04: The Role of War in Deep Transitions: Exploring Mechanisms, Imprints and Rules in Sociotechnical Systems
Phil Johnstone and Caitriona McLeish
SWPS 2020-03: Niche Acceleration driven by Expectation Dynamics among Niche and Regime Actors: China’s Wind and Solar Power Development
Kejia Yang, Ralitsa Hiteva and Johan Schot
SWPS 2020-02: Investigating the Role of BNDES as a Tool to Transmit Countercyclical Policy Decisions: Evidence from 2002-2016
Marco Carreras
SWPS 2020-01: On the Basis of Brain: Neural-Network-Inspired Change in General Purpose Chips
Ekaterina Prytkova and Simone Vannuccini
- 2019
SWPS 2019-25: Mobilizing the Transformative Power of the Research System for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Matias Ramirez, Oscar Romero, Johan Schot and Felber Arroyave
SWPS 2019-24: Job Composition and Its Effect on UK Firms in the Digital Era
Mabel Sánchez Barrioluengo
SWPS 2019-23: Start-up Subsidies: Does the Policy Instrument Matter?
Hanna Hottenrott and Robert Richstein
SWPS 2019-22: Organised Crime and Technology
Mustafa Caglayan, Alessandro Flamini and Babak Jahanshahi
SWPS 2019-21: The Value of Data: Towards a Framework to Redistribute It
Maria Savona
SWPS 2019-20: Teaming up with Large R&D Investors: Good or Bad for Knowledge Production and Diffusion?
Sara Amoroso and Simone Vannuccini
SWPS 2019-19: Experimental Innovation Policy
Albert Bravo-Biosca
SWPS 2019-18: Relating Financial Systems to Sustainability Transitions: Challenges, Demands and Dimensions
Chantal P. Naidoo
SWPS 2019-17: Innovation and Self-Employment
Tommaso Ciarli, Mattia Di Ubaldo and Maria Savona
SWPS 2019-16: Integration in Global Value Chains and Employment in Europe
Filippo Bontadini, Rinaldo Evangelista, Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona
SWPS 2019-14: The Impact of Increasing Returns on Knowledge and Big Data: From Adam Smith and Allyn Young to the Age of Machine Learning and Digital Platforms
Yao-Su Hu
SWPS 2019-13: Eco-Innovation and Firm Growth in the Circular Economy: Evidence from European SMEs
Pelin Demirel and Gamze Ozturk Danisman
SWPS 2019-12: The Rush for Patents in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: An Exploration of Patenting Activity at the European Patent Office
Mario Benassi, Elena Grinza and Francesco Rentocchini
SWPS 2019-11: Power and Export Sophistication in Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Insights from Colombian Customs Data
Filippo Bontadini
SWPS 2019-10: Trade Specialisation and Performance in Global Value Chains
Filippo Bontadini
SWPS 2019-09: DARE to be Different? Applying Diversity Heuristics to the Analysis of Collaborative Research
Frédérique Bone, Michael M. Hopkins, Ismael Ràfols, Jordi Molas-Gallart, Puay Tang, Gail Davey and Antony M. Carr
SWPS 2019-08: Multiple Regime Interactions, Conversion, and South Africa’s Liquefied Natural Gas
Marie Blanche Ting
SWPS 2019-07: Specialisation, Diversification and the Ladder of Green Technology Development
François Perruchas, Davide Consoli and Nicolò Barbieri
SWPS 2019-06: Engineering and Sustainability: Control and Care in Unfoldings of Modernity
Andy Stirling
SWPS 2019-05: As Time Went By - Long Waves in the Light of Evolving Evolutionary Economics
Francisco Louçã
SWPS 2019-04: Structural Changes and Sustainability. A Selected Review of the Empirical Evidence
Maria Savona and Tommaso Ciarli
SWPS 2019-03: To What Extent is Inclusion in the Web of Science an Indicator of Journal 'Quality'?
Diego Chavarro, Ismael Ràfols and Puay Tang
SWPS 2019-02: Towards a Taxonomy of Academic Misconduct: The Case of Business School Research
Jeremy Hall and Ben R. Martin
SWPS 2019-01: Modelling the Evolution of Economic Structure and Climate Change: A Review
Tommaso Ciarli and Maria Savona
SWPS 2019-00: Thank you
SWPS Editors
- 2018
SWPS 2018-24: Diffusion of Shared Goods in Consumer Coalitions. An Agent-Based Model
Francesco Pasimeni and Tommaso Ciarli
SWPS 2018-23: How Deep Is Incumbency? Introducing a 'Configuring Fields' Approach to the Distribution and Orientation of Power in Socio-Material Change
Andy Stirling
SWPS 2018-22: Scientific Output of US and European Universities Scales Super-Linearly with Resources
Benedetto Lepori, Aldo Geuna and Antonietta Mira
SWPS 2018-21: Do Firms Publish? A Multi-Sectoral Analysis
Roberto Camerani, Daniele Rotolo and Nicola Grassano
SWPS 2018-20: A Co-Evolutionary, Long-Term, Macro-Economic Forecast for the UK Using Demographic Projections
Nick Jagger
SWPS 2018-19: How Can Intermediaries Promote Business Model Innovation: The Case of 'Energiesprong' Whole-House Retrofits in the United Kingdom (UK) and Netherlands
Donal Brown, Paula Kivimaa and Steven Sorrell
SWPS 2018-18: Climate Resilience Pathways of Rural Households. Evidence from Ethiopia
Solomon Asfaw, Giuseppe Maggio and Alessandro Palma
SWPS 2018-17: Public Procurement and Reputation: An Agent-Based Model
Nadia Fiorino, Emma Galli, Ilde Rizzo and Marco Valente
SWPS 2018-16: Mapping Socio-Technical Change in Mobility Regimes: The Case of Kolkata
Bipashyee Ghosh and Johan Schot
SWPS 2018-15: The Limitations of the Conceptual Framework of the Heterogenous Engineer for Leadership in Megascience Projects
David Eggleton
SWPS 2018-14: Prices of Value Added and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains
Maciej J. Grodzicki
SWPS 2018-13: A Global Picture of Industrial Interdependencies Between Civil and Nuclear Infrastructures
Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone
SWPS 2018-12: The Relation between Research Priorities and Societal Demands: The Case of Rice
Tommaso Ciarli and Ismael Ràfols
SWPS 2018-11: Knowledge Sources and Impacts on Subsequent Inventions: Do Green Technologies Differ from Non-Green Ones?
Nicolò Barbieri, Alberto Marzucchi and Ugo Rizzo
SWPS 2018-10: Do Financial Constraints Hamper Environmental Innovation Diffusion? An Agent-Based Approach
Paola D’Orazio and Marco Valente
SWPS 2018-09: Energy Security, Employment and the Policy-Industry Interlock: Explaining the Role of Multi-Scalar Socio-Spatial Embeddedness in Industry Destabilization
Silver Sillak and Laur Kanger
SWPS 2018-08: The Effect of R&D Growth on Employment and Self-Employment in Local Labour Markets
Tommaso Ciarli, Alberto Marzucchi, Edgar Salgado and Maria Savona
SWPS 2018-07: Industrial Policy for a European Industrial Renaissance. A Few Reflections
Maria Savona
SWPS 2018-06: Patent-based Estimation Procedure of Private R&D: The Case of Climate Change and Mitigation Technologies in Europe
Francesco Pasimeni, Alessandro Fiorini and Aliki Georgakaki
SWPS 2018-05: Reorienting Finance Towards Energy Efficiency: The Case of UK Housing
Noam Bergman and Tim Foxon
SWPS 2018-04: Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change. A Framework and Research Agenda
Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona, Jodie Thorpe and Seife Ayele
SWPS 2018-03: System Transition and Structural Change Processes in the Energy Efficiency of Residential Sector: Evidence from EU Countries
Valeria Costantini, Francesco Crespi, Elena Paglialunga and Giorgia Sforna
SWPS 2018-02: Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Productivity in Germany, 1871-2015
Wim Naudé and Paula Nagler
SWPS 2018-01: Innovation, Structural Change, and Inclusion. A Cross Country PVAR Analysis
Amrita Saha and Tommaso Ciarli
SWPS 2018-00: Thank you.
SWPS Editors
- 2017
SWPS 2017-25: A New ‘Cut’ on Technological Innovation Aiming for Sustainability in a Globalized World
Adela Conchado and Pedro Linares
SWPS 2017-24: Resource Efficiency, Environmental Policy and Eco-Innovations for a Circular Economy: Evidence from EU Firms
Giulio Cainelli, Alessio D’Amato and Massimiliano Mazzanti
SWPS 2017-23: Exploring Perceptions of the Credibility of Policy Mixes: The Case of German Manufacturers of Renewable Power Generation Technologies
Karoline S. Rogge and Elisabeth Dütschke
SWPS 2017-22: Kalecki on Technology and Military Keynesianism
Jan Toporowski
SWPS 2017-21: Hate at First Sight? Dynamic Aspects of the Electoral Impact of Migrations: The Case of the UK and Brexit
Eugenio Levi, Rama Dasi Mariani and Fabrizio Patriarca
SWPS 2017-20: School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes in Northern Italy
Alessandro Belmonte, Vincenzo Bove, Giovanna D’Inverno and Marco Modica
SWPS 2017-19: Do Policy Mix Characteristics Matter for Low-Carbon Innovation? A Survey-Based Exploration for Renewable Power Generation Technologies in Germany
Karoline S. Rogge and Joachim Schleich
SWPS 2017-18: Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-Innovation Road to the Circular Economy
Ana de Jesus and Sandro Mendonça
SWPS 2017-17: Towards a Typology of Intermediaries in Transitions: a Systematic Review
Paula Kivimaa, Wouter Boon, Sampsa Hyysalo and Laurens Klerkx
SWPS 2017-16: Innovation, Inequality and the Skill Premium
Riccardo Leoncini
SWPS 2017-15: User-Intermediaries and the Local Embedding of Low Carbon Technologies
Jake Barnes
SWPS 2017-14: Who gains from high-tech growth? High-technology multipliers, employment and wages in Britain
Neil Lee and Stephen Clarke
SWPS 2017-13: Measures, Drivers and Effects of Green Employment: Evidence from US Local Labor Markets, 2006-2014
Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin and Davide Consoli
SWPS 2017-12: Structural Changes and Growth Regimes
Tommaso Ciarli, André Lorentz, Marco Valente and Maria Savona
SWPS 2017-11: Explaining Sociotechnical Transitions: A Critical Realist Perspective
Steve Sorrell
SWPS 2017-10: Social Innovation, Democracy and Makerspaces
Adrian Smith
SWPS 2017-09: Adoption and Diffusion of Micro-Grids in Italy. An Analysis of Regional Factors Using Agent-Based Modelling
Francesco Pasimeni
SWPS 2017-08: The Measurement of Synergy in Innovation Systems: Redundancy Generation in a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations
Loet Leydesdorff, Henry Etzkowitz, Inga Ivanova and Martin Meyer
SWPS 2017-07: Inclusive Innovation and Rapid Sociotechnical Transitions: The Case of Mobile Money in Kenya
Elsie Onsongo and Johan Schot
SWPS 2017-06: Does Managerial Experience Affect Strategic Change?
Matte Hartog and Frank M. H. Neffke
SWPS 2017-05: Coworker Complementarity
Frank Neffke
SWPS 2017-04: Technical skills, disinterest and non-functional regulation: Energy efficiency barriers viewed in an ecosystem of energy service companies
Hanna-Liisa Kangas, David Lazarevic and Paula Kivimaa
SWPS 2017-03: Employment Effects of Innovations over the Business Cycle: Firm-Level Evidence from European Countries
Bernhard Dachs, Martin Hud, Christian Koehler and Bettina Peters
SWPS 2017-02: Policy Democracy: Social and Material Participation in Biodiesel Policy-Making Processes in India
Evelien de Hoop and Saurabh Arora
SWPS 2017-01: A Typology of European Research Universities. Differentiation, Layering and Resource Distribution
Benedetto Lepori, Aldo Geuna and Valerio Veglio
SWPS 2017-00: Thank you.
SWPS Editors
- 2016
SWPS 2016-22: Why Researchers Publish in Non-Mainstream Journals: Training, Knowledge Bridging, and Gap
FillingDiego Chavarro, Puay Tang, and Ismael Ràfols
SWPS 2016-21: Multicriteria Mapping Manual - Version 2.0
Josie Coburn, Andy Stirling
SWPS 2016-20: Lost in space? NASA and the changing public-private
eco-system in spaceMariana Mazzucato, Douglas K. R. Robinson
SWPS 2016-19: Open Innovation: Revealing and Engagement in Open Data organisations
Franz Huber, Francesco Rentocchin and Thomas Wainwright
SWPS 2016-18: The Triple Challenge for Europe: The Economy, Climate Change and Governance
Jan Fagerberg, Staffan Laestadius, Ben Martin
SWPS 2016-17: Serendipity: Towards a taxonomy and a theory
Ohid Yaqub
SWPS 2016-16: Understanding the Intensity of UK Policy Commitments to Nuclear Power
Emily Cox, Phil Johnstone, Andy Stirling
SWPS 2016-15: Deep Transitions: Emergence, Acceleration, Stabilization and Directionality
Johan Schot, Laur Kanger
SWPS 2016-14: Precaution in the Governance of Technology
Andy Stirling
SWPS 2016-13: User-made Immobilities: A Transitions Perspective.
Laur Kanger, Johan Schot
SWPS 2016-12: Financing Renewable Energy: Who is Financing What and Why it Matters
Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk
SWPS 2016-11: Fossil Energy in Economic Growth: A Study of the Energy Direction of Technical Change, 1950-2012.
Gregor Semieniuk
SWPS 2016-10: The Role of Community Leadership in the Development of Grassroots Innovations.
Mari Martiskainen
SWPS 2016-09: Reviewing the evidence on the innovation impact of the EU Emission Trading System.
Karoline Rogge
SWPS 2016-08: Funding Data from Publication Acknowledgements: Coverage, Uses and Limitations.
Nicola Grassano, Daniele Rotolo, Joshua Hutton, Frédérique Lang, Michael Hopkins
SWPS 2016-07: Assessing Energy Security in a Low-Carbon Context: The Case of Electricity in the UK.
Emily Cox
SWPS 2016-06: The Complex Interactions between Economic Growth and Market Concentration in a Model
of Structural Change.Tommaso Ciarli, Marco Valente
SWPS 2016-05: Technology Development in South Africa: The Case of Wind and Solar PV.
Lucy Baker
SWPS 2016-04: Nonhumans in the Practice of Development: Material Agency and Friction in a Small-Scale Energy Program in Indonesia.
Yuti Ariani Fatimah, Saurabh Arora
SWPS 2016-03: What is Happening to our Universities?
Ben Martin
SWPS 2016-02: Shaping the Agenda of a Grand Challenge: Institutional Mediation of Priorities in Avian Influenza Research.
Matthew L. Wallace, Ismael Rafols
SWPS 2016-01: A Triple Helix Model of Medical Innovation: Supply, Demand, and Technological Capabilities in terms of Medical Subject Headings.
Alexander Petersen, Daniele Rotolo, Loet Leydesdorff
SWPS 2016-00: Thank you.
SWPS Editors
- 2015
SWPS 2015-37:Opening the Black Box of Energy Security: A Study of Conceptions of Electricity Security in the UK
Emily Cox
Download:SWPS 2015-37 [PDF 2.42MB]
SWPS 2015-36: Experiments in climate governance – a systematic review of research on energy and built environment transitions
Paula Kivimaa, Mikael Hildén, Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan, Jens Newig
Download: SWPS 2015-36 [PDF 1.28MB]
SWPS 2015-35: Social network and private provision of public goods
Bulat Sanditov, Saurabh Arora
Download: SWPS 2015-35 [PDF 805.25KB]
SWPS 2015-34: Explaining Variation in Medical Innovation: The Case of Vaccines, and the HIV AIDS effort
Ohid Yaqub
Download: SWPS 2015-34 [PDF 512.27KB]
SWPS 2015-33: Barriers to Innovation: Can Firm Age Help Lower Them?
Gabriele Pellegrino
Download: SWPS 2015-33 [PDF 1.03MB]
SWPS 2015-32: Services in Developing Economies: A New Chance for Catching-Up?
Gisela Di Meglio, Jorge Gallego, Andr?s Maroto, Maria Savona
Download: SWPS 2015-32 [PDF 4.04MB]
SWPS 2015-31: Innovative Procurement Frameworks for Energy Performance Contracting in the UK Public Sector
Colin Nolden, Steve Sorrell, Friedemann Polzin
Download: SWPS 2015-31 [PDF 838.03KB]
SWPS 2015-30: Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies
Ben R. Martin
Download: SWPS 2015-30 [PDF 808.67KB]SWPS 2015-29: Institutional Innovation in the Management of Pro-Poor Energy Access in East Africa
Lorenz Gollwitzer, David Ockwell, Adrian Ely
Download: SWPS 2015-29 [PDF 1.18MB]
SWPS 2015-28: The Green Entrepreneurial State
Mariana Mazzucato
Download: SWPS 2015-28 [PDF 1.57MB]
SWPS 2015-27: Research Assessment in the UK and Italy: Costly and Difficult, But Probably Worth it (At Least For a While)
Aldo Geuna, Matteo Piolatto
Download: SWPS 2015-27 [PDF 865.22KB]
SWPS 2015-26: The Rise of Mission-Oriented State Investment Banks: The Cases of Germany’s KfW and Brazil’s BNDES
Mariana Mazzucato, Caetano Penna
Download: SWPS 2015-26 [PDF 461.12KB]
SWPS 2015-25: From Market Fixing to Market-Creating: A New Framework for Economic Policy
Mariana Mazzucato
Download: SWPS 2015-25 [PDF 850.76KB]
SWPS 2015-24: Do Academics Doubt Their Own Research?
Lee Stapleton
Download: SWPS 2015-24 [PDF 1.04MB]
SWPS 2015-23: Quantitative Analysis of Technology Futures: A review of Techniques, Uses and Characteristics
Tommaso Ciarli, Alex Coad, Ismael Rafols
Download: SWPS 2015-23 [PDF 1.82MB]
SWPS 2015-22: Accelerating the Cleantech Revolution: Exploring the Financial Mobilisation Functions of Institutional Innovation Intermediaries
Friedemann Polzin, Paschen von Flotow, Laurens Klerkx
Download: SWPS 2015-22 [PDF 914.28KB]
SWPS 2015-21: What is a Complex Innovation System?
J. Sylvan Katz
Download: 2015-21 [PDF 644.50KB]
SWPS 2015-20: When Linder Meets Hirschman: Inter-Industry Linkages and Global Value Chains in Business Services
Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Valentina Meliciani, Maria Savona
Download: SWPS 2015-20 [PDF 2.07MB]
SWPS 2015-19: Global Structural Change and Value Chains in Services: A Reappraisal
Maria Savona
Download: SWPS 2015-19 [PDF 1.28MB]
SWPS 2015-18: Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories in Germany And the UK: From ‘Regimes’ to ‘Democracies’ in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities
Phil Johnstone, Andy Stirling
Download: SWPS 2015-18 [PDF 1.81MB]
SWPS 2015-17: Employment Protection Legislation and Firm Growth: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Anders Bornhä?l, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, Niklas Rudholm
Download: SWPS 2015-17 [PDF 411.15KB]
SWPS 2015-16: Do green jobs differ from non-green jobs in terms of skills and human capital?
Davide Consoli, Giovanni Marin, Alberto Marzucchi, Francesco Vona
Download: SWPS 2015-16 [PDF 1.31MB]
SWPS 2015-15: Unpacking Big Systems – Natural Language Processing meets Network Analysis A Study of Smart Grid Development in Denmark
Roman Jurowetzki
Download: SWPS 2015-15 [PDF 2.75MB]
SWPS 2015-14: Network (Mis)Alignment, Technology Policy and Innovation: The Tale of Two Brazilian Cities
Janaina Pamplona da Costa
Download: SWPS 2015-14 [PDF 1.24MB]
SWPS 2015-13: Socio-Technical Transitions and Policy Change – Advocacy Coalitions in Swiss Energy Policy
Jochen Markard, Marco Suter, Karin Ingold
Download: SWPS 2015-13 [PDF 1.04MB]
SWPS 2015-12: Going Beyond Instrument Interactions: Towards a More Comprehensive Policy Mix Conceptualization for Environmental Technological Change
Karoline S. Rogge, Kristin Reichardt
Download: SWPS 2015-12 [PDF 744.86KB]
SWPS 2015-11: Journal Portfolio Analysis for Countries, Cities, and Organizations: Maps and Comparisons?
Loet Leydesdorff, Gaston Heimeriks, Daniele Rotolo
Download: SWPS 2015-11 [PDF 3.75MB]
SWPS 2015-10: Research Portfolio Analysis in Science Policy: Moving from Financial Returns to Societal Benefits
Matthew L. Wallace, Ismael Rafols
Download: SWPS 2015-10 [PDF 1.28MB]
SWPS 2015-09:International Careers of Researchers in Biomedical Sciences: A Comparison of the US and the UK
Cornelia Lawson, Aldo Geuna, Ana Fernández-Zubieta, Rodrigo Kataishi, Manuel Toselli
Updated version: July 2015
Download: SWPS 2015-09 [PDF 1.92MB]
SWPS 2015-08:Estimating Direct Rebound Effects for Personal Automotive Travel in Great Britain
Lee Stapleton, Steve Sorrell, Tim Schwanen
Updated version: SWPS 2015-08 - Updated version: February 2016 [PDF 1.75MB]
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SWPS 2015-07: Exploring the Role of Servitization to Overcome Barriers for Innovative Energy Efficiency Technologies – The Case of Public LED Street Lighting in German Municipalities
Friedemann Polzin, Paschen von Flotow, Colin Nolden
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SWPS 2015-06: What Is an Emerging Technology?
Daniele Rotolo, Diana Hicks, Ben Martin
Updated version: September 2015
Download: SWPS 2015-06 [PDF 969.39KB]
SWPS 2015-05: High-Growth Firms: Stylized Facts and Conflicting Results
Fabiana Moreno, Alex Coad
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SWPS 2015-04: The Effect of Demand-Driven Structural Transformations on Growth and Technological Change
André Lorentz, Tommaso Ciarli, Maria Savona, Marco Valente
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SWPS 2015-03: SiSOB Data Extraction and Codification: A tool to analyse scientific careers
Aldo Geuna, Rodrigo Kataishi, Manuel Toselli, Eduardo Guzm?n, Cornelia Lawson, Ana Fernandez-Zubieta, Beatriz Barros
Download: SWPS 2015-03 [PDF 1.33MB]
SWPS 2015-02: Creative Destruction or Mere Niche Creation? Innovation Policy Mixes for Sustainability Transitions
Paula Kivimaa, Florian Kern
Download: SWPS 2015-02 [PDF 624.86KB]
SWPS 2015-01: Moving Out Of Academic Research: Why Scientists Stop Doing Research?
Aldo Geuna, Sotaro Shibayama
Updated version: July 2015
Download: SWPS 2015-01 [PDF 1.15MB]
- 2014
SWPS 2014-25: From fuel poverty to energy vulnerability: The importance of services, needs and practices
Stefan Bouzarovski, Saska Petrova, Sergio Tirado-Herrero
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SWPS 2014-24: Towards Innovation Democracy? Participation, Responsibility and Precaution in Innovation Governance
Andy Stirling
Download: SWPS 2014-24 [PDF 933.70KB]
SWPS 2014-23: Exploring and yet failing less: Learning from exploration, exploitation and human capital in R&D
Pablo D’Este, Alberto Marzucchi, Francesco Rentocchini
Download: SWPS 2014-23 [PDF 1.20MB]
SWPS 2014-22: Reducing energy demand: An overview of issues, challenges and approaches
Steve Sorrell
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SWPS 2014-21: Beyond market failures: The market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks
Mariana Mazzucato, Caetano C.R. Penna
Download: SWPS 2014-21 [PDF 1.90MB]
SWPS 2014-20: Distinguishing patterns of learning and inclusion through patterns of network formation in developing aricultural clusters
Matias Ramirez, Paloma Bernal, Ian Clarke, Ivan Hernandez
Download: SWPS 2014-20 [PDF 1.65MB]
SWPS 2014-19: What is Technology? Six definitions and two pathologies
Paul Nightingale
Download: SWPS 2014-19 [PDF 1.94MB]
SWPS 2014-18: That was then, this is now: Skills and Routinization in the 2000's
Davide Consoli, Francesco Vona, Francesco Rentocchini
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SWPS 2014-17: How satisfied are the self-employed? A life domain view
Martin Binder, Alex Coad
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SWPS 2014-16: Energy substitution, technical change and rebound effects
Steve Sorrell
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Paper published as:
S. Sorrell (2014), Energy Substitution, Technical Change and Rebound Effects, Energies, 7(5), 2850-2873, doi:10.3390/en7052850SWPS 2014-15: Taste and Power: The flavouring industry and flavour additive regulation
Patrick van Zwanenberg, Erik Millstone
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SWPS 2014-14: Matching MEDLINE/PubMed Data with Web of Science (WOS): A Routine in R Language
Daniele Rotolo, Loet Leydesdorff
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SWPS 2014-13: Innovation as Growth Policy: The challenge for Europe
Mariana Mazzucato, Carlota Perez
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SWPS 2014-12: Developing capabilities in the seed industry: which direction to follow?
Anabel Marin, Lilia Stubrin, Patrick van Zwanenberg
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SWPS 2014-11: Multicriteria Mapping Manual: Version 1.0
Andy Stirling, Josie Coburn
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SWPS 2014-10: Scientometric Mapping as a Strategic Intelligence Tool for the Governance of Emerging Technologies
Daniele Rotolo, Ismael Rafols, Michael Hopkins, Loet Leydesdorff
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SWPS 2014-09: Reviving demand-pull perspectives: The effect of demand uncertainty and stagnancy on R&D strategy
José García-Quevedo, Gabriele Pellegrino, Maria Savona
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SWPS 2014-08: Community-based digital fabrication workshops: A review of the research literature
Sabine Hielscher, Adrian Smith
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SWPS 2014-07: Standing in the way by standing in the middle: The case of state-owned natural gas intermediaries in Bulgaria
Ralitsa Petrova Hiteva, Tomas Maltby
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SWPS 2014-06: From sustainability to transformation: Dynamics and diversity in reflexive governance of vulnerability
Andy Stirling
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SWPS 2014-05: Determinants of patent citations in biotechnology: An analysis of patent influence across the industrial and organizational boundaries
Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Daniele Rotolo, Vito Albino
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SWPS 2014-04: Don't stop me now: Barriers to innovation and firm productivity
Alex Coad, Gabriele Pellegrino, Maria Savona
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SWPS 2014-03: Transforming Power: social science and the politics of energy choices
Andy Stirling
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SWPS 2014-02: From laggard to leader: Explaining offshore wind developments in the UK
Florian Kern, Adrian Smith, Chris Shaw, Rob Raven, Bram Verhees
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SWPS 2014-01: Productivity in services twenty years on. A review of conceptual and measurement issues and a way forward
Nicola Grassano, Maria Savona
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- 2013
SWPS 2013-17: Strategic interactions in public R&D across European countries: A spatial econometric analysis
Hakim Hammadou, Sonia Paty, Maria Savona
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Paper published as:
H. Hammadou, S. Paty, M. Savona, (2014), Strategic interactions in public R&D across European countries: A spatial econometric analysis, Research Policy, 43(7), 1217-1226SWPS 2013-16: High growth firms, innovation and competition: the case of the US pharmaceutical industry
Mariana Mazzucato, Stuart Parris
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SWPS 2013-15: Schumpeter's theological roots? Harnack and the origins of creative destruction
Paul Nightingale
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SWPS 2013-14: Interdisciplinarity and research on local issues: evidence from a developing country
Diego Chavarro, Puay Tang, Ismeal Rafols
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SWPS 2013-13: Entrepreneurs and output: Theory and empirical evidence with Spanish data
Vicente Salas-Fumas, J.Javier Sanchez-Asin, David Storey
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SWPS 2013-12: Investing in food security? Philanthrocapitalism, biotechnology and development
Sally Brooks
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SWPS 2013-11: Processes of firm growth and diversification: theory and evidence
Alex Coad and Christina Guenther
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SWPS 2013-10: Sleeping gazelles: High profits but no growth
Anders Bornhall, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt, and Niklas Rudholm
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SWPS 2013-09: Accounting for productive investment and value creation
Mariana Mazzucato, Alan Shipman
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SWPS 2013-08: Planning reform, rescaling, and the construction of the post-political: the case of The Planning Act 2008 and nuclear power consultation in the UK
Philip Johnstone
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SWPS 2013-07: Apple’s changing business model: What should the world’s richest company do with all those profits?
William Lazonick, Mariana Mazzucato, Öner Tulum
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SWPS 2013-06: Theoretical arguments forindustrialisation-driven growth and economic development
Tommaso Ciarli, Michele Di Maio
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SWPS 2013-05: Institutional voids or entry barriers? Business groups, innovation and market fevelopment in emerging economies
Fulvio Castellacci
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SWPS 2013-04:The multi-dimensional additionality of innovation policies: A multi-level application to Italy and Spain
Alberto Marzucchi, Sandro Montresor
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SWPS 2013-03: Muppets and gazelles: Political and methodological biases in entrepreneurship research
Paul Nightingale, Alex Coad
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SWPS 2013-02: Grassroots digital fabrication and makerspaces: Reconfiguring, relocating and recalbirating innovation?
Adrian Smith, Sabine Hielscher, Sascha Dickel, Johan Söderberg, Ellen van Oost
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SWPS 2013-01: Is money all? Financing versus knowledge and demand constraints to innovation
Gabriele Pellegrino, Maria Savona
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- 2012
Business Experience and Start-up Size: Buying More Lottery Tickets Next Time Around?
Alex Coad (SPRU), Julian S. Frankish (Barclay’s Bank), Paul Nightingale (SPRU), Richard G. Roberts (Barclay’s Bank), David J. Storey (Business and Management)
Abstract
This paper explores the determinants of start-up size by focusing on a cohort of 6247 businesses that started trading in 2004, using a unique dataset on customer records at Barclays Bank. In our theoretical model, post-entry growth is treated as a random walk, and start-up size is positively related to survival. In this view, business experience does not have any impact on post-entry growth (since growth is random), but is associated with higher survival if entrepreneurs with prior business experience have a larger start-up size. Quantile regressions show that prior business experience is significantly related with start-up size, as are a number of other variables such as age, education and bank account activity. Quantile treatment effects (QTE) estimates show that business experience leads to a higher start-up size, with the effect of business experience on (log) start-up size being roughly constant across the quantiles. Prior personal business experience leads to an increase in expected start-up size of about 48%. IVQTE estimates are even higher.
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New Venture Survival and Growth: When does the fog lift?
Alex Coad (SPRU) , Julian S Frankish (Barclays Bank), Richard G Roberts (Barclays Bank), David J Storey (SPRU)
Abstract
Does our ability to predict the performance of new ventures improve in the years after startup? We investigate the growth and survival of 6247 new ventures that are tracked through the customer records at Barclays Bank. We develop the concept of Gamblers Ruin as a valid approach to understanding new venture growth and survival. The Nagelkerke R2 obtained from growth rate regressions decreases significantly in the years after start-up, which suggests that the fog gets thicker with respect to growth. However, the Nagelkerke R2 of survival regressions increases in the years after start-up. Interestingly, a blip in year five suggests that macro-economic factors may have a strong effect on the amount of ‘fog.’ Our results offer little support for Strategic Entrepreneurship theory.
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Two's Company: Human Capital Composition and Performance of Entrepreneurial Pairs
Alex Coad (SPRU) Bram Timmermans (Aalborg University)
Abstract
We study the effects of diverse team composition on the survival and growth of new ventures using the Danish Linked Employer-Employee database. To get cleaner measures of diverse team composition, we focus on entrepreneurial dyads, and also investigate the asymmetric effects of team composition by distinguishing between the `primary' and the `secondary' founder. We complement existing work by showing that heterogeneity in team composition is affected by the asymmetric hierarchical structure within the team, and that a uni-dimensional diversity indicator (which is usually applied) fails to capture a number of performance effects of heterogeneous team composition. Ventures with a STEM-educated primary founder and a Business-educated secondary founder have high employment growth, while the opposite combination (Business first, STEM second) has low employment growth. Pairs of younger individuals have lower survival chances but higher employment growth. Family firms have lower employment growth, especially when formed with your mother.
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"I'm afraid I have bad news for you…" Estimating the impact of different health impairments on subjective well-being
Martin Binder (SPRU) and Alex Coad (Max Planck Institute of Economics/SPRU)
Abstract
Bad health can severely disrupt a person's life. We apply matching estimators to examine how changes in subjective health status as well as different (objective) conditions of bad health affect subjective well-being. The strongest effect is in the category alcohol and drug abuse, followed by anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses, stroke and cancer. Adaptation to health impairments depends strongly on the health impairment examined. There is a puzzling asymmetry: strong adverse reactions to deteriorations in health are observed alongside weak increases in well-being after health improvements.
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The Role of Multi-Level Regulation in the Transition towards Cleaner Production and a Circular Economy in China: The Case of Bao'an District, Shenzhen Under the 11th Five Year Plan
Adrian Ely (SPRU), Li Ping (Tsinghua University, Shenzen), Fruzsina Kemenes (University of York) and Wang Pusheng (Tsinghua University, Shenzhen)
Abstract
The “circular economy” first emerged as a movement in China in 2003, when Chinese leaders began embarking upon a series of legislative initiatives that sought to address the country’s worsening environmental problems. Led by the National Development and Reform Commission, in cooperation with the State Environmental Protection Agency (now Ministry) and other related ministries, the move towards a circular economy in China is being promoted at provincial and sub-provincial levels through policies focussing on firms, eco-parks and industrial areas. This particular paper looks at Bao’an District in Shenzhen, a rapidly developing industrial city in the Southern province of Guangdong, that is one of ten cities that were selected for pilot “circular economy” projects nationwide within the country’s 11th Five Year Plan (2006-2010). Based on interview data and documentary analysis from 2007 and 2008, the paper provides case studies of ways in which industry actors are contributing to the transition towards cleaner production and a circular economy in Bao’an District. It also investigates the role of municipal regulations in facilitating and incentivising these changes, and contrasts these with other motivations for investment in cleaner technologies. The paper identifies cost-saving as the primary motivation for investments in cleaner production technologies, and discusses technological upgrading as one of the strategies that has led not only to environmental benefits and cost-saving, but also enhanced long-term competitiveness. Avoiding formal censure through government-enforced fines was less commonly cited as a motivation, raising questions as to the role of such formal regulations in cleaner technology governance in Shenzhen. The paper also highlights less important motivations that are nevertheless of interest - attraction of government subsidies for cleaner technology projects, cultivation of good relationships with government and brand recognition/ public image. The resulting insights provide a better understanding of the decision-making context of Shenzhen’s firms (including the role of regulation within this), and point to implications for further government efforts towards encouraging cleaner production and the development of a circular economy.
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Science Policy, Complex Innovation Systems and Performance Measures
Sylvan Katz (SPRU, U of Saskatchewan, Science-Metrix)
Abstract
The design of effective science and innovation policy is partially predicated on the notion that decision makers have reliable evidence-based performance measures. The study of science systems has shown they are complex, adaptive systems with emergent properties frequently characterized by power law distributions and functions. These properties are rarely used to prepare measures that inform policy makers. A difficulty with traditional measures such as national wealth (GDP per capita), R&D intensity (GERD/GDP) and scientific impact (citations/paper) is that they are based on measures of wealth and impact (i.e. citations) that have power law distributions. Performance measures based on population averages derived from these distributions may have large or indefinable error limits making comparisons across groups misleading or uninformative. This article illustrates how a scaling model of a science system constructed from 1984-2007 Web of Science (WoS) data can be used to prepare measures with error limits that provide insight into the evolution and performance of a complex science system and answer policy relevant questions.
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- 2011
Intermediaries and Capability Building in an Emerging Resource based Cluster
Ian Clarke (Greenwich Business School, University of Greenwich) and Matias Ramirez (SPRU)
Abstract
This paper evaluates and analyses the role played by intermediary organisations in consolidating the position of an emerging resource-based cluster in exports markets. Through a purpose-built typology, the argument is made that organisations undertaking important intermediary functions act not only to facilitate the transfer and diffusion of knowledge, as previous literature has emphasized, but that in emerging clusters, their scope of activities, extending into leading joint actions by producers, coordinating new investment and enabling new knowledge, places intermediaries at the centre of the network of organisations. The implications of this for the governance of the cluster, including inclusion of diverse producers is discussed.
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Do entrepreneurs really learn? Or do they just tell us that they do?
Julian S. Frankish (Barclays Bank plc), Richard G. Roberts (Barclays Bank plc), Alex Coad (SPRU), Taylor C. Spears (SPRU), David J. Storey (СÀ¶ÊÓƵ)
Abstract
This paper examines the theory and evidence in support of entrepreneurial leaning (EL). Under this theory entrepreneurial performance is argued to be enhanced by EL which itself is enhanced by business experience. However, if business performance is strongly influenced by chance then evidence of EL will be difficult to identify. We test for EL using a large scale data set comprising 6671 new firms. We choose business survival over three years as our performance measure and then formulate three tests for EL. None of the three tests provide compelling evidence in support of EL.
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Growth Paths and Survival Chances
Alex Coad (SPRU), Julian Frankish (Barclay’s Bank, UK), Richard G. Roberts (Barclay’s Bank, UK), David J. Storey (СÀ¶ÊÓƵ)
Abstract
We investigate the growth and survival of nascent businesses by analyzing their bank records. We do not find strong evidence in favour of a taxonomy of growth paths, because we observe that every possible growth path seems to occur with roughly equal probability. However, we observe that survival depends on the business' growth path. Controlling for lagged size, we observe that longer lags of growth, and even start-up size, have significant effects on survival.
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Life satisfaction and self-employment: A matching approach
Martin Binder (Max Planck Institute of Economics) and Alex Coad (Max Planck Institute of Economics and SPRU)
Abstract
Despite lower incomes, the self-employed consistently report higher satisfaction with their jobs. But are self-employed individuals also happier, more satisfied with their lives as a whole? High job satisfaction might cause them to neglect other important domains of life, such that the fulfiling job crowds out other pleasures, leaving the individual on the whole not happier than others. Moreover, self-employment is often chosen to escape unemployment, not for the associated autonomy that seems to account for the high job satisfaction. We apply matching estimators that allow us to better take into account the above-mentioned considerations and construct an appropriate control group. Using the BHPS data set that comprises a large nationally representative sample of the British populace, we find that individuals who move from regular employment into self-employment experience an increase in life satisfaction (up to two years later), while individuals moving from unemployment to self-employment are not more satisfied than their counterparts moving from unemployment to regular employment. We argue that these groups correspond to “opportunity" and “necessity" entrepreneurship, respectively. These findings are robust with regard to different measures of subjective well-being as well as choice of matching variables, and also robustness exercises involving “simulated confounders".
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The Determinants of Regional Specialisation in Business Services: Agglomeration Economies, Vertical Linkages and Innovation
Valentina Meliciani (University of Teramo) and Maria Savona (SPRU)
Abstract
The paper accounts for the determinants of sectoral specialisation in business services across the EU-27 regions as determined by: (1) agglomeration economies (2) the region-specific structure of intermediate linkages (3) technological innovation and knowledge intensity and (4) the presence of these factors in neighbouring regions. The empirical analysis draws upon the REGIO panel database over the period 1999-2003. By estimating a Spatial Durbin Model, we find that urbanisation economies, intermediate linkages and innovation, in particular Information and Communication Technologies, are important determinants of specialisation in business services. We also find significant spatial effects in explaining regional specialisation in business services, which supports the argument of the literature on agglomeration economies.
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Management and Organisation of Knowledge Creation in Emerging Markets: a Perspective from subsidiaries of EU MNEs
Vandana Ujjual(SPRU), Parimal Patel(SPRU), Rishikesha T. Krishnan(IIM, Bangalore), Srivardhini Keshavamurthy (IIM, Bangalore), RueyLin Hsiao(National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei) and Frank Yan Zhao (Shanghai University, China)
Abstract
A key emerging trend in the globalization of innovation is that an increasing share of R&D is being undertaken in Emerging Markets, especially in India and China. This paper focuses on the involvement EU MNEs in this process. It is based on 22 interviews conducted with managers of R&D centres of 15 EU-based companies located in India and China. These companies are amongst the leading R&D spenders in 3 industries: ICT, Automobiles and Pharmaceuticals.
The declared aim of all the surveyed companies is to increase their R&D in Emerging Markets, especially India and China. The two main driving forces for this process are firstly the large market potential of these countries and the availability of a large pool of well-qualified scientists and engineers. A great deal of the activities in India and China are concerned with adapting products and processes to the local market. At the same time a number of companies are devising low cost products specifically for these markets. Another explanation for the growing volume of R&D in Emerging markets is that some of the long established R&D and engineering centres of EU firms have evolved from providing low-cost, low-level support for peripheral activities to becoming global centres for excellence providing support to the R&D carried out in the rest of the company. This is especially the case for design and development of software in the ICT companies in India. It is also important for both software and engineering services for the Automobile companies.
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Performance Characteristics of Large Firms at the Forefront of Globalization of Technology
Vandana Ujjual and Parimal Patel
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the performance characteristics of large firms that are at the forefront of globalization of their knowledge creating activities. This we do by making a comparison with firms that are much more concentrated in terms of their knowledge creation. Our analysis is based on around 500 of the world’s largest technologically active companies, with their headquarters in the EU, Japan and the US. These companies account for a large proportion of both corporate R&D spending worldwide and total EPO patenting. We examine performance according to size, volume and intensity of innovation and various measures of profitability (such as Tobin’s q and operating margin).
The results for the sample as a whole show that firms that are geographically dispersed in their technology creation are, on average, considerably larger, have a higher volume of innovative activities, and have superior economic performance. However in terms of innovation intensity the difference between the two sets of firms is negligible, i.e. they both devote very similar proportions of their total resources to innovation. The analysis also shows that there are considerable differences across sectors in the degree to which these results hold.
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Location of Innovative Activities of EU Large Firms
Parimal Patel
Abstract
This paper focuses on the main stylized facts emerging from a systematic analysis of the geographic location of knowledge-creating activities of the world’s largest technologically active firms. Together these firms accounted for more than 85% of all corporate R&D in 2006 and 70% of all EPO patent applications in the period 2001-06. Thus the decisions made by these firms in terms of location of their technology facilities have important implications for both their home countries and for the host countries. Our results show that a very high share of European firms are technologically active outside their home countries. However in terms of volume, foreign sources account for a small share of the overall technology creation amongst these firms. Moreover the degree of internationalisation of technology varies greatly according to the nationality of firms and according to their main industry of activity. The most important foreign locations of EU firms are within the EU-15, and a majority of them are active in at least one other EU-15 country. In general the most preferred location of EU firms outside Europe is the US. This is especially the case for Chemicals,Pharmaceuticals and ICT firms. Emerging countries such as India and China account for a very small but increasing proportion of these companies’ activities. Our results are consistent with those derived from the latest firm-level surveys such as that undertaken by the European Commission (IPTS).
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Stem Cells as a Driver of the Knowledge Economy:Progress and Challenges Facing Scotland
Yumiko Okamoto
Abstract
Regional science and innovation policies have diffused rapidly through OECD countries and regions, partly stimulated by evolutionary theories of learning and innovation, which hold that the regional institutional environment can play a role in stimulating innovation. The concept that became known as regional systems of innovation has received attention from both theorists and policy makers. This paper evaluates this concept using Scotland as a case study. The Scottish experience supports critics’ views against those of theorists of regional innovation systems for two reasons. First, the systems of innovation are bounded by knowledge and technology, but less by geography. Second, markets tend to limit the potential of regional-driven knowledge to foster local development. The Scottish case highlights the difficulties of pursuing regional science and innovation policies in the era of globalization.
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- 2010
Managing Intellectual Property in Universities: Patents and the Protection Failure Problem
Puay Tang, Dagmara Weckowska, André Campos, Michael Hobday
Abstract
This project investigated the entrepreneurial activities of UK universities through in-depth interviews with the key university actors in a representative sample of 40 universities across the country. The project assessed the scale and extent of the ‘patent protection failure’ problem, which revolves around the issue of universities withdrawing and abandoning patent applications. It found that TTOs are becoming more selective in their patenting process. Our findings also shed new light on university commercialisation models, the “verdict” on TTOs performance, the role of metrics in accounting for HEI performance in IP commercialisation and the impact of academic entrepreneurialism on the behaviour of researchers. Our findings also contribute to the recent discussion about the utility of a regional grouping of TTOs and a “matchmaking” forum for unexploited university IP. The report concludes with policy recommendations for Government to consider. This study was sponsored by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
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A review of the influence of long-term patterns in research and technological development (R&D) formalisation on university-industry links
André Luiz de Campos CENTRIM, University of Brighton & SPRU
Abstract
There has been growing interest in the study of the role played by university-industry links in the development and strengthening of economic systems. It is commonly agreed that university-industry links play a crucial role in the economy and many studies have examined the factors that influence their occurrence. Two sets of factors can be identified from these studies: demand-side factors (i.e. relating to industry) and supply-side factors (i.e. relating to universities). This paper reviews this literature. It concentrates on the influence of long-term patterns in R&D formalisation on university-industry links. This is done for selected advanced and late industrialising countries. The literature reviewed indicated that, in advanced countries, university-industry links become more varied as R&D becomes formalised. In late industrialising countries, university-industry links become more intense as R&D becomes formalised.Download: SEWP187 [PDF 313.49KB]
A demand side perspective on multinational corporations’ (MNC) university-industry links: the case of Unilever
André Luiz de Campos CENTRIM, University of Brighton and SPRU
Abstract
This paper considers university-industry links from the perspective of industry rather than from the usual university-centred perspective. While the literature has shown that the characteristics of business firms influence the composition and intensity of university-industry links, little is known about whether university-industry links are similar or different across the technical activities of firms; for example between research and technological development activities (R&D) or during efforts at manufacturing improvement. The paper analyses the composition and intensity of university-industry links in a disaggregate fashion, to observe them across these various activities. While these links are often treated under the common heading of 'absorptive capacity', this paper argues that the composition and intensity of the university links varies substantially across these activities. Based on a comparative embedded case study design, it examines empirical evidence from a large company’s (Unilever) technological activities related to two product groups (deodorants and margarine) in the United Kingdom (UK). We find that dramatic changes in the composition and intensity of university-industry links occur when the firm moves from research to technological development.
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Energy, growth and sustainability: five propositions
Steve Sorrell
Abstract
This paper advances five linked and controversial propositions that have both deep historical roots and urgent contemporary relevance. These are: a) the rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements are significant and limit the potential for decoupling energy consumption from economic growth; b) the contribution of energy to productivity improvements and economic growth has been greatly underestimated; c) the pursuit of improved efficiency needs to be complemented by an ethic of sufficifency; d) sustainability is incompatible with continued economic growth in rich countries; and e) a zero-growth economy is incompatible with a debt-based monetary system. These propositions run counter to conventional wisdom and each highlights either a ‘blind spot’ or ‘taboo subject’ that deserves closer scrutiny. While accepting one proposition reinforces the case for accepting the next, the former is neither necessary nor sufficient for the latter.
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Dynamics and deliberations: comparing heuristics for low carbon innovation policy
J. Ivan Scrase, Adrian Smith, Florian Kern
Abstract
Low carbon innovation policy is in flux. The neo-classical economic paradigm that has dominated energy policy in recent decades is loosening its grip under the challenges decarbonisation present to energy systems. Other frameworks for interpreting and responding to those challenges are available. We can see this plurality evident in the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, where neo-classical approaches sit alongside more interventionist industrial strategy and initiatives for engaging civil society in energy restructuring. Amongst the issues that implementation of the plan will involve, we highlight four as especially critical. These are: negotiating technological priorities and portfolios; long-term signals and adaptable policy; social innovation and technology fixes; and the roles of incumbents and outsiders in energy system transformation. We focus on two heuristics for interpreting these issues – the multi-level perspective in socio-technical transitions theory, and grid-group cultural theory. Both indicate how the framing of any issue has important consequences for subsequent policy actions.
Our analysis does not advocate one heuristic over the other. We should be wary of any framework that claims to definitively and comprehensively incorporate all dimensions to the LTCP. Rather, we suggest a more reflexive and thereby constructive dialogue over LCIP is possible when the underlying heuristics informing different perspectives are made more transparent. Reflecting upon these heuristics might improve the inevitable politics of low carbon transition by enhancing mutual understanding, identifying common ground, respecting differences, and hopefully improving the legitimacy of what are likely to be wide-scale and deep-seated changes to our energy systems and our lives.
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The Nature of Collaborative Patenting Activities
Roberto Fontana (Bocconi University) and Aldo Geuna (Universities of Torino and Grenoble)
Abstract
We investigate the reasons why different governance modes are used in a sample of successful collaborative patenting activities in Europe. First we show that collaboration activities in the patenting process are much more common than one may expect by looking only at information on co-assignment. Indeed, collaborative patenting activity accounts for more than a quarter of all patents in our sample. This figure is about eight times higher than that from co-assignment data (usually considered to assess cooperation in patenting). We then examine the impact of organizational, individual and project determinants on the choice of three possible modes of governance: coassignment, co-invention, collaborative agreement. We find that higher project complexity and technological scope are associated to tighter modes of governance. We also find a significant negative relationship between licensing and co-assignment, thus providing some support to the view that some licensing can be the result of ex-ante legal agreements rather than of the presence of a market for technology. Finally, inventor specific characteristics matter too. In particular, age increases the probability of choosing looser governance modes while better education is associated to tighter modes.
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Structural Transformations in Production and Consumption: Long-Run Growth and Income Disparities
Tommaso Ciarli (MPI, Jena, Germany), André Lorentz (MPI, Jena, Germany),Maria Savona (SPRU), Marco Valente(University of L’Aquila, and LEM, Pisa, Italy)
Abstract
The paper provides a theoretical explanation for the dramatic differences observed in the income growth and distribution across countries and within countries through time. The model we propose provides micro foundations for linking structural change to economic growth. The model formalizes the links between production technology, firm organization, and functional composition of employment on the supply side and the endogenous evolution of income distribution and consumption patterns on the demand side. Wage distribution is the main channel between the organization of firms and the consumption patterns. Firm selectionis the main trigger of capital investment, productivity increase, and cumulative causation growth through demand. We analyze the effect of different structural conditions via numerical simulations. We find that these conditions have a stunning effect on the long run rate of income growth and distribution. For example, product and demand variety have a jointly positive effect on growth when variety cumulates over time. Large jumps in technological change affect the economy in a very heterogeneous way, depending on the complexity of firm organization; the positive effect of complex organizational structures on growth can be hindered by large earning disparities.
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Missing links in nanomaterials governance: bringing industrial dynamics and downstream policies into view
Ismael Rafols (SPRU, Univ. СÀ¶ÊÓƵ and TPAC, Geogia Tech), Patrick van Zwanenberg (SPRU), Molly Morgan (SPRU), Paul Nightingale (SPRU) and Adrian Smith (SPRU)
Abstract
In this article we explore some of the analytical and policy implications of widening the focus of nanomaterials governance from risk regulation to the broader issue of the purposeful direction of the innovation process. We focus on the impact of industrial activities on nanotechnology governance, arguing that the specific characteristics of the industrial dynamics of nanomaterials – flexibility in applications and distributed innovation - limit and enable different potential interventions to shape technology. In particular, these characteristics exacerbate the difficulties of attempting to directly influence innovation trajectories. Under these conditions, we argue that policies for nanomaterials governance need to be broadened. The prevailing emphasis in the UK on policy initiatives ‘upstream’ in the R&D process, while commendable, should be complemented with policies aimed further ‘downstream’ at potential users of nanomaterials, such as renewable energy procurement or housing regulations in order to modulate technological development towards socially desirable goals.
Download: SEWP180 [PDF 532.02KB]
- 2009
Overlay Maps of Science: a New Tool for Research Policy
Ismael Rafols (SPRU, Univ. СÀ¶ÊÓƵ and TPAC, Geogia Tech), Alan Porter (TPAC, Georgia Tech) and Loet Leydesdorff (ASCoR, Univ. Amsterdam)
Abstract
We present a novel approach to visually locate bodies of research within the sciences, both at each moment of time and dynamically. This article describes how this approach fits with other efforts to locally and globally map scientific outputs. We then show how these science overlay maps help benchmark, explore collaborations, and track temporal changes, using examples of universities, corporations, funding agencies, and research topics. We address conditions of application, with their advantages, downsides and limitations. Overlay maps especially help investigate the increasing number of scientific developments and organisations that do not fit within traditional disciplinary categories. We make these tools accessible to help researchers explore the ongoing socio- cognitive transformation of science and technology systems.
Download: SEWP179 [PDF 3.84MB]
Developing an evidence-based approach to environmental policy making: insights from Defra’s Evidence & Innovation Strategy
Louise Shaxson (Delta Partnership), Michael Harrison (Defra), Molly Morgan (SPRU)
Abstract
Over the past ten years the literature on evidence-based policy making has paid increasing attention to the need to focus not only on what evidence is supplied to the policy process, but also on how it is supplied and the nature of demand for evidence from policy makers. This paper draws on such academic perspectives as well as experiences at the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to offer some insights about environmental policy making and evidence processes. We begin by analysing the drivers of change that have come to condition the types of evidence supplied to policy makers, concluding that the composition of the evidence base for environmental policy is broader and more complex than can be delivered by purely research-based approaches. This analysis is supported by the wider shift from the ‘Mode 1’ to the ‘Mode 2’ paradigm of knowledge production. The background sets the context within which we trace the process of developing and conducting Defra’s Evidence & Innovation Strategy; a systematic attempt to realign the Department’s needs for evidence with its business and policy priorities. The insights from this process lead us to propose four principles of environmental evidence-based policy making. These are offered alongside a framework which better reflects the organisational realities of environmental policy making in the UK and lends itself more readily than existing frameworks to tangible implementation in a fast-paced and rapidly changing policy environment. The framework and the principles help articulate the links between the concept of public value and the Mode 2 paradigm; but demonstrate the paucity of the tools that policy makers can use to respond to the Modernising Government agenda.
Download: SEWP181 [PDF 248.61KB]
Simulating Personal Carbon Trading: An Agent-Based Model.
Ruud Kempener (Environment & Energy Programme, SPRU)
Download: SEWP177 [PDF 617.36KB]
Electricity System Diversity in the UK and Japan - a Multicriteria Diversity Analysis.
Go Yoshizawa, Andy Stirling, Tatsujiro Suzuki (СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Energy Group)
Download: SEWP176 [PDF 2.20MB]
Will markets deliver low carbon power generation?
John Rhys (Visiting Fellow, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Energy Group)
Download: SEWP175 [PDF 134.31KB]
- 2008
The Impact of Academic Patenting on University Research and its Transfer
Gustavo Crespi (IDRC, Canada), Pablo D'Este (INGENIO (CSIC-UPV), Spain & SPRU), Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia & Bocconi University) & Aldo Geuna (University of Torino, Italy & SPRU)
December 2008Download: SEWP178 [PDF 371.57KB]
Learning and sharing in a Chinese high-technology cluster: A study of inter-firm and intra-firm knowledge flows between R&D employees.
Matias Ramirez (SPRU) and Xibao Li (School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University)
Download: SEWP174 [PDF 129.46KB]
The governance of University knowledge transfer
Aldo Geuna (SPRU & Department of Economics S. Cognetti de Martiis, University of Turin) & Alessandro Muscio (GRIF, Università Luiss Guido Carli)
Download: SEWP173 [PDF 179.89KB]
Standards compliance as an alternative learning opportunity under globalization in Latin America
Isabel Maria Bodas Freitas (Eindhoven Center for Innovation Studies (ECIS), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) & Michiko Iizuka (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht & SPRU)
Download: SEWP172 [PDF 272.12KB]
Industrial clusters and the evolution of their knowledge networks: revisiting a Chilean case.
Elisa Giuliani (DEA Facoltà di Economia, University of Pisa & SPRU) & Martin Bell (SPRU)
Download: SEWP171 [PDF 242.20KB]
What drives the formation of 'valuable' University-Industry linkages? An under-explored question in a hot policy debate.
Elisa Giuliani (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute) & Valeria Arza (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Estudios para la Transformación)
Download: SEWP170 [PDF 209.00KB]
What drives innovative output in emerging clusters? Evidence from the wine industry.
Elisa Giuliani (DEA Facoltà di Economia, University of Pisa & SPRU)
Download: SEWP169 [PDF 204.37KB]
What hampers innovation? Evidence from the UK CIS4
Pablo D'Este (SPRU&School of Management, Cranfield University), Simona Iammarino(SPRU), Maria Savona (SPRU & Faculty of Economics & Social Sciences, University of Science & Technology Lille), Nick von Tunzelmann (SPRU)
Download: SEWP168 [PDF 200.32KB ]
Diversity and network coherence as indicators of interdisciplinarity: Case studies in bionanoscience
Ismael Rafols (SPRU) & Martin Meyer (SPRU)
Download: SEWP167 [PDF 279.02KB]
Mapping Technological Trajectories as Patent Citation Networks. An Application to Data Communication Standards
Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia), Alessandro Nuvolari**, Bart Verspagen** (**Eindhoven University of Technology)
Download: SEWP166 [PDF 429.92KB]
- 2007
Remixing Cinema: the case of the Brighton Swarm of Angels
Irene Cassarino (Polytechnic of Turin) & Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP165 [PDF 295.21KB]
The determinants of home-base-augmenting and home-base-exploiting Technological activities: some new results on multinationals' locational strategies
Christian Le Bas (LEFI, Institut des Sciences de l'Homme) & Parimal Patel (SPRU)
Download: SEWP164 [PDF 144.80KB]
Incentives and uncertainty: an empirical analysis of the impact of demand on innovation
Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia and Bocconi University) & Marco Guerzoni (Schiller Universitat)
Download: SEWP163 [PDF 253.28KB]
Related variety and regional growth in Italy
Ron Boschma (Utrecht University) & Simona Iammarino (SPRU)
Download: SEWP162 [PDF 285.26KB]
The benefits from publicly funded research
Ben R. Martin & Puay Tang (SPRU)
Download: SEWP161 [PDF 1.58MB]
The transitions discourse in the ecological modernisation of the Netherlands.
Adrian Smith & Florian Kern (SPRU)
Download: SEWP160 [PDF 227.94KB] Published in , 18 (1), February 2009, pp.78-98.
Emerging in between: the multi-level govfernance of renewable energy in the English regions.
Adrian Smith (SPRU)
SEWP159 published in , 35 (12), 2007, pp. 6266-6280.
Policy instruments as innovation in governance: the case of emissions trading
Jan-Peter Voß (Öko-Institut, Berlin, and Institute for Governance Studies, University of Twente)
Download: SEWP158 [PDF 517.79KB]
Routines and representations at work - observing the architecture of conceptual design
Mike Hales and Joe Tidd (SPRU)
Download: SEWP157 [PDF 579.22KB]
A General Framework for Analysing Diversity in Science, Technology and Society
Andy Stirling (SPRU)
Download: SEWP156 [PDF 575.66KB] Published in , Vol. 4, No. 15, 2007, pp.707-719.
Global and local knowledge linkages: the case of MNE subsidiaries in Argentina
Anabel Marin and Elisa Giuliani (SPRU)
Download: SEWP155 [PDF 876.50KB]
- 2006
University IPRs and Knowledge Transfer. Is the IPR ownership model more efficient?
Gustavo Crespi (SPRU), Aldo Geuna (SPRU) and Bart Verspagen (ECIS)
Download: SEWP154 [PDF 1.30MB]
Multi-level governance: Towards an analysis of renewable energy governance in the English regions
Adrian Smith (SPRU)
Download: SEWP153 [PDF 519.23KB]
Knowledge-sourcing strategies for cross-disciplinarity in bionanotechnology
Ismael Rafols and Martin Meyer (SPRU)
Download: SEWP152 [PDF 363.82KB]
Positive Developments and Challenges before Indigenous Software Industries: Looking at Bulgaria, Thinking about CEE
Rossitza Rousseva (SPRU)
Download: SEWP151 [PDF 451.80KB]
Expectations, Network Effects anfd Timing of Technology Adoption: Some Empirical Evidence from a Sample of SMEs in Italy
Nicoletta Corrocher (CESPRI, Bocconi University) and Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia and CESPRI)
Download: SEWP150 [PDF 370.85KB]
Environmentalism and Technology
Adrian Smith (SPRU)
Download: SEWP149 [PDF 514.43KB]
Inside or OutSide? Positioning the Governance of Sociotechnical Systems
Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling (SPRU)
Download: SEWP148 [PDF 531.85KB] Published in , 9 (3-4), 2007, pp351-373
The Productivity of UK Universities
Gustavo Crespi and Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP147 [PDF 723.34KB]
Improving the Evidence Base for Energy Policy: The Role of Systematic Reviews
Steve Sorrell (SPRU)
Download: SEWP146 [PDF 713.65KB]
Peer Review and the Relevance of Science
Alister Scott (SPRU)
Download: SEWP145 [PDF 677.93KB]
Are Co-Active Researchers on Top of their Cflass? An Exploratory Comparison of Inventor-Authors with their Non-Inventing Peers in Nano-Science and Technology
Martin S. Meyer (SPRU, Helsinki University of Technology and Steunpunt O&O Statistieken)
Download: SEWP144 [PDF 2.14MB]
Exploring the "Value" of Academic Patents: IP Management Practices in UK Universities and their Implications for Third-Stream Indicators
Martin S. Meyer (SPRU, Helsinki University of Technology and Steunpunt O&O Statistieken) and Puay Tang (SPRU)
Download: SEWP143 [PDF 783.47KB]
- 2005
Labour Mobility of Academic Inventors. Career Decision and Knowledge Transfer.
Gustavo A. Crespi (SPRU and University of Chile), Aldo Geuna (SPRU) and Lionel J. J. Nesta (OFCE)
Download: SEWP139 [PDF 789.51KB]
The Structure and Evolution of Industrial Clusters: Transactions, Technology and Knowledge Spillovers
Simona Iammarino (SPRU and University of Rome) and Philip McCann (University of Reading) December 2005
Download: SEWP138 [PDF 721.39KB]
Biotechnology Alliances in the European Pharmaceutical Industry: Past, Present and Future
Jacqueline Senker (SPRU)
Download: SEWP137 [PDF 644.17KB] Published in , 3 (3) 2006, 24-39
Making Design Rules: A Multi-Domain Perspective
Stefano Brusoni (CESPRI, CRORA and Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation) and Andrea Prencipe (SPRU and University G. d'Annunzio)
Download: SEWP136 [PDF 642.96KB] Published in 2006 17 (2): 179- 189.
Speculative and Entrepreneurial Behaviour: A Study of Micro-Economic Sustainability in Argentina During the 1990s
Valeria Arza (SPRU) and Paula Español (EHESS, Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques) October 2005
Download: SEWP135 [PDF 2.40MB]
Indicators for Complex Innovation Systems
Sylvan Katz (SPRU)
Download: SEWP134 [PDF 1.30MB] Published in , 35 (7) 2006, 893-909.
Modelling and Measuring Scientific Production: Results for a Panel of OECD Countries
Gustavo Crespi and Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP133 [PDF 1.12MB]
The Impact of Dual Use Controls on UK Science: Results From a Pilot Study
Caitriona McLeish and Paul Nightingale (SPRU)
Download: SEWP132 [PDF 411.84KB]
To Know is to Be: Three Perspectives on the Codification of Knowledge
Mike Bartholomaei (SPRU)
Download: SEWP131 [PDF 198.81KB]
Intellectual Property and Inter-organizational Collaborative Networks: Navigating the Maze
Puay Tang and Jordi Molas-Gallart (SPRU)
Download: SEWP130 [PDF 118.82KB]
Exploiting the Oil-GDP Effect to Support Renewables Deployment
Shimon Awerbuch and Raphael Sauter (SPRU)
Download: SEWP129 [PDF 242.14KB] Published in , Vol. 34, No. 17, 2006, pp. 2805-2819.
Does internationalisation of technology determine technological diversification in large firms?
Christian Le Bas (Centre Walras, University of Lyon II) and Pari Patel (SPRU)
Download: SEWP128 [PDF 116.83KB]
- 2004
Labour productivity, ICT and regions: The revival of Italian "dualism"?
Simona Iammarino (SPRU), Cecilia Jona-Lasinio, Susanna Mantegazza (ISTAT, Rome)
Download: SEWP127 [PDF 227.54KB]
Product Entry in a Fast Growing Industry: the LAN Switch Market
Roberto Fontana (CESPRI, Bocconi University) and Lionel Nesta (SPRU)
Download: SEWP126 [PDF 154.69KB] Published in , Vol. 16, No. 1-2, April 2006, pp. 45-64.
Technological Capabilities, Invisible Infrastructure & the Un-social Construction of Predictability: The Overlooked Fixed Costs of Useful Research
Paul Nightingale (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP125 [PDF 16.86KB] Published in Research Policy, 33 (9) 2004, 1259- 1284.
Are 'Soft' Policy Instruments Effective? The Link Between Environmental Management Systems and the Environmental Performance of Companies
Julia Hertin (SPRU), Frans Berkhout (SPRU), Marcus Wagner (University of Luneberg), Daniel Tyteca (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Download: SEWP124 [PDF 104.72KB]
The Value and Costs of Modularity: A Cognitive Perspective
Stefano Brusoni (CESPRI and CRORA, Bocconi University), Luigi Marengo (Universita di Teramo), Andrea Prencipe (Universita G. D'Annunzio and SPRU), Marco Valente (Universita dell'Aquila and DRUID, Aalborg University)
Download: SEWP123 [PDF 1.10MB]
A Combinatorial Model of Organizational Innovation: The Case of Pilkington Plc
Anna Grandori (CRORA, Bocconi University) and Andrea Prencipe (University G. D'Annunzio and SPRU)
Download: SEWP122 [PDF 153.76KB]
Sustained Innovation: Career Engineers, Stock Markets, and the Theory of the Innovative Enterprise
William Lazonick (INSEAD and University of Massachusetts Lowell) and Andrea Prencipe (University G. D'Annunzio and SPRU)
Download: SEWP121 [PDF 373.19KB]
Change, Coordination, and Capabilities
Andrea Prencipe (SPRU)
Download: SEWP120 [PDF 100.38KB]
Knowledge and Productivity in the World's Largest Manufacturing Corporations
Lionel Nesta (SPRU) August 2004
Download: SEWP119 [PDF 181.52KB]
Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): an Exploration of the Active Role of MNC Subsidiaries in the Case of Argentina in the 1990s.
A. Marin (SPRU and Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento) and M. Bell (SPRU)
Download: SEWP118 [PDF 1.03MB]
Organisational Memory and Innovation Across Projects: Integrated Service Provision in Engineering Design Firms
Eugenia Cacciatori (CRORA, Bocconi University and SPRU)
Download: SEWP117 [PDF 115.81KB ]
Social Networks of Researchers in Business To Business Marketing: A Case Study of the IMP Group 1984-1999
Piera Morlacchi (SPRU), Ian F. Wilkinson (University of New South Wales) and Louise Young (University of Technology Sydney)
Download: SEWP116 [PDF 196.12KB] Published in , 12 (1) 2005, 3-34.
(New title: The micro-determinants of meso-level learning and innovation: evidence from a Chilean wine cluster)
When Micro Shapes the Meso: Learning Networks in a Chilean Wine Cluster
Elisa Giuliani and Martin Bell (SPRU)
Download: SEWP115 [PDF 246.93KB] Published in , 34 (1) 2005, 47-68.
The Dynamics of Innovation Networks
Lionel Nesta (SPRU) and Vincent Mangematin (INRA, Université Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble) April 2004
Download: SEWP114 [PDF 201.85KB]
Coherence of the Knowledge Base and Firm Innovative Performance: Evidence from the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Lionel Nesta (SPRU) and Pier Paolo Saviotti (INRA, Université Pierre Mendes-France, Grenoble)
Download abstract: SEWP 113 [PDF 17.02KB] Published in Journal of Industrial Economics, LIII (1) 2005, 123-142.
Committing to Vaccine R&D: A Global Science Policy Priority
Daniele Archibugi and Kim Bizzarri (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Rome)
Download abstract: SEWP112 [PDF 15.16KB] Published in Research Policy, 33 (10) 2004, 1657-1671.
A New Indicator of Technological Capabilities for Developed and Developing Countries (ArCo)
Daniele Archibugi (LSE and INRC - Rome) and Alberto Coco (Bank of Italy) January 2004
Download: SEWP111 [PDF 255.79KB]
(New title: How do firms' knowledge bases affect intra-industry heterogeneity? An analysis of the Spanish pharmaceutical industry.)
Persistent Knowledge Specialisation and Intra-Industry Heterogeneity: an Analysis of the Spanish Pharmaceutical Industry
Pablo D'Este Cukierman (SPRU)
Download: SEWP110 [PDF 245.47KB] Published in , 34 (1) 2005, 33-45
Technology Frames: The Art of Perspective and Interpretation in Strategy
Virginia Acha (SPRU)
Download: SEWP109 [PDF 90.12KB]
- 2003
Collaboration between a research university and firms and other institutions
Aldo Geuna, Patrick Llerena*, Mireille Matt* and Maria Savona (SPRU, *:BETA, University of Strasbourg)
Download abstract: SEWP108 [PDF 16.68KB] Published in F. Cesaroni et al. (eds), R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry; Kluwer Academic, 2004, pp. 145-173.
Reverse Technology Transfer: A Patent Citation Analysis of the European Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sectors
Paola Criscuolo (MERIT, SPRU)
Download: SEWP107 [PDF 154.08KB]
Socio-technical regimes and transition contexts
Frans Berkhout, Adrian Smith and Andy Stirling (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP106 [PDF 22.04KB] Published as 'Socio-technological regimes and transition contexts' in: B. Elzen, F.W. Geels and K. Green (eds), System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 48-75.
The Dynamics of Export Specialisation in the Regions of the Italian Mezzogiorno: Persistence and Change
Paolo Guerrieri and Simona Iammarino (University of Rome / IAI, Rome; SPRU / IAI)
Download: SEWP105 [PDF 305.11KB]
Governing the "New Economy": a 3-Phase Historical Model of Cumulative Gales of Creative Destruction of the United Kingdom Internet Service Providers' Market
Michèle Javary (CENTRIM)
Download: SEWP104 [PDF 155.69KB]
Firm Size and Openness: the Driving Forces of University-Industry Collaboration
Roberto Fontana (CESPRI, Bocconi), Aldo Geuna (SPRU) and Mireille Matt (BETA, Strasbourg)
Download: SEWP103 [PDF 132.78KB] Published in Y. Caloghirou, A. Constantelou and N.S. Vonortas (eds), Knowledge Flows in European Industry: Mechanisms and Policy Implications; London: , 2006. In addition, an article based on this working paper is published in , Vol. 35, 2006, pp. 309-323. (Title: Factors affecting university-industry R&D projects: the importance of searching, screening and signalling.)
A Schumpeterian Renaissance?
Chris Freeman (SPRU)
Download: SEWP102 [PDF 54.79KB]
Authority in the Age of Modularity
Stefano Brusoni (SPRU)
Download: SEWP101 [PDF 72.77KB] Published as 'The Limits to Specialization: Problem solving and coordination in 'modular networks' 2005 26 (12): 1885-1908.
Who Owns the Carbon? Interactions between the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the UK Renewables Obligation and Energy Efficiency Commitment
Steve Sorrell (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP100 [PDF 16.23KB] Published in Energy and Environment, 14 (5) 2003, 677-703.
University Patenting and its Effects on Academic Research
Aldo Geuna and Lionel Nesta (SPRU)
Download: SEWP99 [PDF 182.04KB] Published in , 35 (6) July 2006, 790-807.
Policies for Developing New Technologies
Chris Freeman (SPRU)
Download: SEWP98 [PDF 49.89KB] Published as Politicas para el desarrollo de nuevas tecnologias. In: Instituto Espanol de Comercio Exterior (ed), Claves de la Economia Mundial; Madrid, IECX, 2003, pp. 71-78.
Future Imperfect: the Response of the Insurance Industry to the Emergence of Predictive Genetic Testing
Stefano Brusoni, Rachel Cutts and Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP97 [PDF 15.98KB] Published in M. McKelvey, A. Rickne and J. Laage-Hellman (eds),The Economic Dynamics of Biotechnologies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, pp. 207-234.
Trade Reforms and Technological Accumulation: the Case of the Industrial Sector in Argentina during the 1990s
Valeria Arza (SPRU)
Download: SEWP96 [PDF 316.23KB] Published in Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 7 (2-3) 2005, 131-151. (New title: Technological performance, economic performance and behaviour: a study of Argentinian firms during the 1990s)
Specialization and Systems Integration: Where Manufacture and Services Still Meet
Keith Pavitt (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP95 [PDF 19.88KB] Published in A. Prencipe, A. Davies and M. Hobday (eds) The Business of Systems Integration; Oxford: OUP, 2003, pp. 78-91.
Applying the Open Source Development Model to Knowledge Work
Juan Mateos Garcia and W. Edward Steinmueller (SPRU)
Download: SEWP94 [PDF 445.98KB]
Problem solving and the co-ordination of innovative activities
Stefano Brusoni and Keith Pavitt (SPRU)
Download: SEWP93 [PDF 97.96KB]
The Open Source Way of Working: a New Paradigm for the Division of Labour in Software Development?
Juan Mateos Garcia and W. Edward Steinmueller (SPRU)
Download: SEWP92 [PDF 130.02KB]
What are Advances in Knowledge Doing to the Large Industrial Firm in the "New Economy"?
Keith Pavitt (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP91 [PDF 14.84KB] Published in: J.F. Christensen and P. Maskell (eds) The Industrial Dynamics of the New Digital Economy; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp. 103-120.
The Knowledge Bases of the World's Largest Pharmaceuticals Groups: what do Patent Citations to Non-Patent Literature Reveal?
Stefano Brusoni, Paola Criscuolo and Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP90 [PDF 100.46KB] (Please do not cite prepublication version) Published in: , 14 (5) July 2005, 395-415.
The Process of Innovation
Keith Pavitt (SPRU)
Download: SEWP89 [PDF 161.28KB]
The Impact of an Associative Strategy (the PROFO Program) on Small and Medium Enterprises in Chile
Jose Miguel Benavente (Oxford/Chile) and Gustavo Crespi (SPRU/Chile)
Download abstract: SEWP88 [PDF 146.02KB]
Intangible Assests and Market Value: Evidence from Biotechnology Firms
Lionel Nesta (SPRU) and Pier-Paolo Saviotti (Grenoble)
Download: SEWP87 [PDF 109.93KB]
- 2002
Transforming Technological Regimes for Sustainable Development: a role for Appropriate Technology niches?
Adrian Smith (SPRU)
Download abstract: SEWP86 [PDF 20.55KB] Published in Science and Public Policy, 30 (2) 2003, 127-135.
Capacity utilisation revisited: software, control & the growth of large technical systems.
Paul Nightingale, Tim Brady, Andrew Davies and Jeremy Hall (SPRU; CENTRIM, University of Brighton; Haskayne Business School, University of Calgary, Canada)
Download abstract: SEWP85 [PDF 16.61KB] Published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 12 (3) June 2003, pp. 477-517.
Transforming the energy system - the evolution of the German technological system for solar cells.
Staffan Jacobsson, Björn A. Andersson, Lennart Bångens (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg)
Download: SEWP84 [PDF 163.67KB]
Knowledge about knowledge since Nelson & Winter: a mixed record.
Keith Pavitt (SPRU)
Download: SEWP83 [PDF 59.00KB]
The ICT component of technological diversification: is there an underestimation of ICT capabilities among the world's largest companies?
Sandro Mendonca (ISCTE)
Download: SEWP82 [PDF 153.30KB]
Universities and industrial transformation: an interpretive and selective literature study with special emphasis on Sweden.
Staffan Jacobsson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Download: SEWP81 [PDF 133.90KB ]
The role of codified sources of knowledge in innovation: empirical evidence from Dutch manufacturing.
Stefano Brusoni (SPRU), Orietta Marsili (ECIS) and Ammon Salter (SPRU)
Download: SEWP80 [PDF 91.35KB] Published in , 15 (2) 2005, 211-231
Search strategy on product innovation process: theory and evidence from the evolution of agrochemical lead discovery process.
Surya Mahdi
Download abstract: SEWP79 [PDF 17.61KB] Published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 12 (2) April 2003, pp. 235-270.
The fruits of intellectual production: economic and scientific specialisation among OECD countries.
Keld Laursen (CEBR and DRUID) and Ammon Salter (SPRU)
Download: SEWP78 [PDF 84.49KB]
Organizing for service innovation: best-practice or configurations?
Joe Tidd (SPRU) and Frank Hull (Fordham University, New York)
Download: SEWP77 [PDF 123.43KB]
The organization of new service development in the USA and UK
Joe Tidd (SPRU) and Frank Hull (Fordham University, New York)
Download: SEWP76 [PDF 85.49KB]
Policy transfer in the development of UK climate policy for business
Adrian Smith
Download abstract: SEWP75 [PDF 11.58KB] Published as 'Policy transfer in the development of UK climate policy' in Policy & Politics, 32 (1) 2004, 79-93.
- 2001
Sources of Ideas for Innovation in Engineering Design
Ammon Salter and David Gann
Download: SEWP74 [PDF 91.49KB]
Does Proximity Matter for Knowledge Transfer from Public Institutes and Universities to Firms?
Anthony Arundel (MERIT, University of Maastricht) & Aldo Geuna (SPRU)
Download: SEWP73 [PDF 171.06KB] (A related paper has been published as: Proximity and the use of public science by innovative European firms. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 13 (6) Sept 2004, 559-580)
Ecological modernisation and EU environmental policy integration
Julia Hertin and Frans Berkhout
Download abstract: SEWP72 [PDF 16.39KB] Published as 'Analysing Institutional Strategies for Environmental Policy Integration' in Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 5 (1) 2003, 39-56
University Research Evaluation and Funding: An International Comparison
Aldo Geuna and Ben R. Martin
Download abstract: SEWP71 [PDF 14.26KB] Published in Minerva, 41, 2003, 277-304.
Challenges in the Implementation of CWC Export Controls
Daniel Feakes
Download abstract: SEWP70 [PDF 14.61KB] Published as 'Challenges in the implementation of export controls under the Chemical Weapons Convention' in: Yepes-Enríquez and L. Tabassi (eds), Treaty Enforcement and international Cooperation in Criminal Matters; The Hague: OPCW, 2002, pp. 331-343.
The Key Characteristics of Sectoral Knowledge Bases: An International Comparison
Stefano Brusoni and Aldo Geuna
Download abstract: SEWP69 [PDF 16.24KB] Published as 'An international comparison of sectoral knowledge bases: persistence and integration in the pharmaceutical industry' in Research Policy, 32, 2003, 1897-1912.
Can the Large Penrosian Firm cope with the Dynamics of Technology?
Keith Pavitt
Download: SEWP68 [PDF 56.50KB]
Making the Link: Climate Policy and the Reform of the UK Construction Industry
Steve Sorrell
Download abstract: SEWP67 [PDF 17.25KB] Published in Energy Policy, 31 (9), 2003, pp. 865-878.
Design Performance Measurement in the Construction Sector: A Pilot Study
Richard Torbett, Ammon Salter, David Gann, Mike Hobday
Download: SEWP66 [PDF 134.89KB]
The Intensification of Innovation
Mark Dodgson, David M Gann and Ammon J Salter
Download abstract: SEWP65 [PDF 19.56KB] Published in International Journal of Innovation Management, 6 (1) March 2002, pp. 53-83
Constructing Success in the Electric Power Industry: Flexibility and the Gas Turbine
Jim Watson
Download: SEWP64 [PDF 114.82KB]
The Power of Ideas: Effective Research for Environmental Decision-Making
Alister Scott
Download abstract: SEWP63 [PDF 25.21KB] Paper withdrawn
Export Controls, Chemical Trade and the Chemical Weapons Convention
Daniel Feakes
Download abstract: SEWP62 [PDF 19.86KB] Published in J. Tucker (ed) The Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation Challenges and Solutions; San Francisco: Monterey Institute of International Studies, 2001, 45-51. Available at .
The Meaning of BATNEEC: Interpreting Excessive Costs in UK Industrial Pollution Regulation
Steve Sorrell
Download abstract: SEWP61 [PDF 17.23KB] Published in Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 4, 2002, 23-40.
Matching Societal Needs and Technological Capabilities: Research Foresight and the Implications for Social Sciences
Ben R Martin
Download abstract: SEWP60 [PDF 16.75KB] Published in Social Sciences and Innovation, OECD Proceedings; Paris: Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development, 2001, Chapter 11, 105-115.
The Origin and Evolution of the University Species
Ben R Martin and Henry Etzkowitz
Download abstract: SEWP59 [PDF 18.72KB] Published in Journal for Science and Technology Studies (Tidskrift för Vetenskaps- och Teknikstudier, VEST), 13 (3-4) 2000, 9-34.
The Role of Middle Range Publications in the Development of Engineering Knowledge
Ammon J Salter and David M Gann
Download: SEWP58 [PDF 90.90KB]
A Hard Landing for the 'New Economy'? Information Technology and the United States National System of Innovation
Chris Freeman
Download abstract: SEWP57 [PDF 20.98KB] Published in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 12(2), July 2001, 115-139.
Knowledge Exchange and Learning Through International Joint Ventures: An Anglo-Japanese Experience
Joseph Tidd and Yasuhiko Izumimoto
Download abstract: SEWP56 [PDF 18.16KB] Published in Technovation, 22, 2002, 137-145.
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Innovation Management in Context: Environment, Organization & Performance
Joe Tidd
Download abstract: SEWP55 [PDF 15.99KB] Published in International Journal of Management Reviews, 3 (3), Sept 2001, 169-183.
The Effects of Project Novelty on the New Product Development Process
Joe Tidd and Kirsten Bodley
Download abstract: SEWP54 [PDF 16.35KB] Published as 'The influence of project novelty on the new product development process', in R&D Management, 32 (2) 2002, 127-138.
Public Policies to Support Basic Research: What Can the Rest of the World Learn from US Theory and Practice? (And what they should not learn)
Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP53 [PDF 20.16KB] Published in Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (3) 2001, 761-779.
The Political and Economic Context of European Defence R&D
Jordi Molas-Gallart
Download: SEWP52 [PDF 2.56KB]
The Evolution of Specialisation: Public Research in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
Aldo Geuna
Download abstract: SEWP51 [PDF 21.53KB] Published in Research Evaluation, 10(1) April 2001, 67-79.
Crafting the Virtual Prototype: How Firms Integrate Knowledge and Capabilities Across Organisational Boundaries
Luciana D'Adderio
SEWP 50 Published in Research Policy, 30 (9) Dec 2001, 1409-1424.
Technological Risk, Scientific Advice and Public 'Education': Groping for an Adequate Language in the Case of GM Foods
Alister Scott
Download abstract: SEWP49 [PDF 17.31KB] Published in Environmental Education Research, 7 (2) 2001, 129-139.
Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies and Changes in Skills
Gyu-heui Hwang
Download abstract: SEWP48 [PDF 13.13KB] Published as 'Information and communication technologies and changes in skills' International Journal of Manpower, 24 (1) 2003, 60-82.
Government Defence Research Establishments: The Uncertain Outcome of Institutional Change
Jordi Molas-Gallart
Download abstract: SEWP47 [PDF 13.24KB] Published in Defence and Peace Economics, 12, 2001, 417-437.
Knowledge Specialisation and the Boundaries of the Firm: Why Do Firms Know More Than they Do?
Stefano Brusoni, Andrea Prencipe and Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP46 [PDF 14.56KB] Published as 'Knowledge specialisation, organizational coupling and the boundaries of the firm: why do firms know more than they make?' Administrative Science Quarterly, 46 (4) 2001, 597-621.
Innovating Routines in the Business Firm: What Matters, What's Staying the Same, and What's Changing?
Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP45 [PDF 14.98KB] Published as 'Innovating routines in the business firm: what corporate tasks should they be accomplishing?' Industrial and Corporate Change, 11 (1) 2002, 117-133.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences: 3 Papers
Research and Development, Keith Pavitt
Economics of Science, Ed Steinmueller
Science Funding: Europe, Jane Calvert and Ben MartinDownload: SEWP44 [PDF 94.54KB ]
Academic Research in Europe
Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP43 [PDF 14.75KB] Published as 'Why European Union funding of academic resaerch should be increased: a radical proposal' in Science and Public Policy, 27 (6), December 2000, 455-460.
Globalisation and Inequality: The Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Developing Countries
Piergiuseppe Morone
Download abstract: SEWP42 [PDF 11.57KB] Published in Studi Economici, 80, 2003
Scale-independent Indicators and Research Evaluation
J Sylvan Katz
Download abstract: SEWP41 [PDF 18.62KB] Published in Science and Public Policy, 27 (1) February 2000 23-36.
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Prospects for Internet Telephony: Toy for Multimedia Hobbyists or Next-Generation Technology?
Nicoletta Corrocher
Download: SEWP40 [PDF 344.32KB]
Project-System Interfaces in Reorganised European Railway Networks: The Management of Large-Scale Railway Projects in the UK and Germany
Anton Geyer
Download abstract: SEWP39 [PDF 20.60KB] Published as A. Geyer and A. Davies 'Managing project-system interfaces: case studies of railway projects in restructured UK and German markets', Research Policy, 29 (7-8), Aug 2000, 991-1013.
Technology in Corporate Strategy: Change, Continuity, and the Information Revolution
K Pavitt & W E Steinmueller
Download abstract: SEWP38 [PDF 33.40KB] Published in A. Pettigrew, H. Thomas and R. Whittington (eds), Handbook of Strategy and Management, London: Sage, 2001, 344-372.
Science-Technology Linkages in an Emerging Research Platform: The Case of Combinatorial Chemistry and Biology
S Malo & A Geuna
Download abstract: SEWP37 [PDF 14.68KB] Published in Scientometrics, 47(2), 2000, 303-321.
Building the Knowledge-Based Economy in Countries in Transition - From Concepts to Policies
D Dyker & S Radosevic
Download abstract: SEWP36 [PDF 17.82KB] Published in Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 12 (1) 2000.
Patterns of Innovative Activities in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: An Analysis Based on Comparison of Innovation Surveys
S Radosevic
Download: SEWP35 [PDF 206.37KB]
The Economic Benefits of Publicly Funded Basic Research: A Critical review
A J Salter & B R Martin
Download abstract: SEWP34 [PDF 16.68KB] Published in Research Policy, 30 (3), 2001, 509-532.
The Changing Rationale for European University Research Funding: Are there Negative Unintended Consequences?
A Geuna
Download abstract: SEWP33 [PDF 35.64KB] Published in Journal of Economic Issues, XXXV (3) Sept 2001, 607-632.
An Examination of Technology Strategies for the Integration of Bioinformatics in Pharmaceutical R&D Processes
M Hopkins
Download: SEWP32 [PDF 246.86KB]
Twinning Networks: Co-Evolution and Competition of System Component Technologies in the Local Area Network Industry
R Fontana
Download: SEWP31 [PDF 284.39KB]
Does science push technology? Patents citing scientific literature
M Meyer
Download abstract: SEWP30 [PDF 15.47KB] Published in Research Policy, 29 (3), 2000, 409-434.
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Policy Networks and Advocacy Coalitions: Explaining Policy Change and Continuity in UK Industrial Pollution Policy?
A Smith
Download abstract: SEWP29 [PDF 19.39KB] Published in Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 18, 2000, 95-114
On the Economics and Analysis of Diversity
A Stirling
Download: SEWP28 [PDF 1.08MB]
Interaction between environmental policy instruments: Carbon emissions trading and Integrated Pollution Prevention Control
A Smith, S Sorell
Download abstract: SEWP27 [PDF 15.42KB] Published in International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 15 (1) 2001, 22-41
The Emerging Patterns of Change and Learning
S Radosevic, U Hotopp
Download abstract: SEWP26 [PDF 18.83KB] Published as 'The product structure of Central and Eastern European trade: the emerging patterns of change and learning.' MOCT-MOST, 9, 1999, 171-199
A Case of Electronic Commerce: The On-line Music Industry - Content, Regulation and Barriers to Development
E Janson, R Mansell
Download: SEWP25 [PDF 161.27KB]
Towards 'Digital Intermediation' in the European Information Society
R Hawkins, R Mansell, W E Steinmueller
Download abstract: SEWP24 [PDF 17.25KB] Published in the Journal of Economic Issues, 33 (2), June 1999, 383-391
Electronic Cash and the Innovation Process: A User Paradigm
L Srivastava, R Mansell
Download: SEWP23 [PDF 194.94KB ]
National systems of innovation under strain: the internationalisation of corporate R & D
P Patel, K Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP22 [PDF 18.03KB] Published in R Barrell, G Mason and M O'Mahony (eds) Productivity, Innovation and Economic Performance; Cambridge UP, 2000, 217-235.
Measures of Participation in the Digital Techno-structure: Internet Access
D Neice
Download: SEWP21 [PDF 162.09KB]
ICTs and Dematerialisation: Some Implications for Status Differentiation in Advanced Market Societies
D Neice
Download: SEWP20 [PDF 251.50KB]
Why sulphur trading failed in the UK
S Sorrell
Download abstract: SEWP19 [PDF 17.49KB] Published in S Sorrell and J Skea (eds) Pollution for Sale: Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, 170-207
A changing sense of place: are integrated IT systems reshaping the home?
J Barlow & D Gann
Download: SEWP18 [PDF 101.39KB]
Aligning internal and external networks: Taiwan's specialization in IT
S Kim & N von Tunzelmann
Download: SEWP17 [PDF 111.26KB]
Patterns of restructuring in research, development and innovation activities in Central and Eastern European countries: analysis based on S&T indicators
S Radosevic & L Auriol
Download abstract: SEWP16 [PDF 17.76KB] Published in Research Policy, 28(4) April 1999, 351-376
A Study of the R&D/Marketing Interface Using SAPPHO Methodology
Q Wang & N von Tunzelmann
Download abstract: SEWP15 [PDF 15.82KB] Published in R Oakey and W During (eds) New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990s. Vol V; London: Paul Chapman, 1998, 152-168
Technology foresight for wiring up the national innovation system: experiences in Britain, Australia and New Zealand
Ben Martin & Ron Johnston
Download abstract: SEWP14 [PDF 13.10KB] Published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 60(1) January 1999, 37-54
Aggregate resource efficiency: a review of evidence
Frans Berkhout
Download abstract: SEWP13 [PDF 10.06KB] Published in P Vellinga, F Berkhout and J Gupta (eds) Managing a Material World: Perspectives in Industrial Ecology. London: Kluwer Academic, 1998, 165-189
Construction skills training for the next millennium
David Gann & Peter Senker, Apr 1998
Download abstract: SEWP12 [PDF 16.71KB] Published in Construction Management and Economics, 16(5) September 1998, 569-580
A Cognitive Model of Innovation
Paul Nightingale, Apr 1998
Download abstract: SEWP11 [PDF 17.42KB] Published in Research Policy, 27(7) November 1998, 689-709
Key National Factors in the Emergence of Computational Chemistry Firms
Surya Mahdi and Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP10 [PDF 26.47KB] Published in the International Journal of Innovation Management, 1(4) December 1997, 355-386
Transformation of Science & Technology Systems into Systems of Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Emerging Patterns of Recombination, Path-Dependency and Change
Slavo Radosevic
Download abstract: SEWP09 [PDF 22.22KB] Published in Structural-Change-and-Economic-Dynamics, 10(3-4) December 1999, 277-320
Patterns of Internationalisation of Corporate Technology: Location versus СÀ¶ÊÓƵ Country Advantages
Pari Patel and Modesto Vega
Download abstract: SEWP08 [PDF 21.81KB] Published in Research Policy, 28(2-3) March 1999, 145-155
Technological Learning and Innovation in Industrial Clusters in the South
Michael Albu
Download: SEWP07 [PDF 376.54KB]
Do Patents Reflect the Useful Research Output of Universities?
Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP06 [PDF 13.04KB] Published in Research Evaluation, 7(2) August 1998, 105-112
The Social Shaping of the National Science Base
Keith Pavitt
Download abstract: SEWP05 [PDF 13.67KB] Published in Research Policy, 27(8) December 1998, 793-805
Technological Diversity and Industrial Networks: An Analysis of the Modus Operandi of Co-Operative Arrangements
Jorge Britto
Download: SEWP04 [PDF 205.62KB]
Plutonium: Storage, Disposal or Utilisation?
Frans Berkhout
Download abstract: SEWP03 [PDF 13.60KB] Published in F Barker (ed) Management of Radioactive Wastes. London: Thomas Telford, 1998, 129- 140
Identifying Research Priorities in Public-Sector Funding Agencies: Mapping Science Outputs onto User Needs
Marlie MacLean, Joe Anderson and Ben R Martin
Interplay of Policy Experimentation and InstitutionalChange in Transformative Policy Mixes: The Case ofMobility as a Service in Finland
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