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respol-theory-development
Use when the conceptual argument is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — building an innovation-studies mechanism or framework that an interdisciplinary readership will accept as a contribution. Builds the theory; it does not run the analysis (respol-data-analysis) or write the final contribution paragraph (respol-contribution-framing).
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# Theory Development (respol-theory-development)
## When to trigger
- The empirics are solid but the paper "just measures something" with no innovation-theory advance
- A referee says "the contribution is empirical only" or "what do we learn about innovation we didn't know?"
- The argument leans on one borrowed framework (absorptive capacity, NIS, open innovation) by name only
- A qualitative/case study has rich data but no crisp constructs or propositions yet
- The mechanism linking the innovation cause to the innovation outcome is implicit or hand-waved
## The Research Policy theory bar
RP is interdisciplinary, so "theory" is pluralist: it can be **economic** (incentives, market/coordination failures, appropriability), **managerial/organizational** (capabilities, search, recombination, governance of R&D), or **evolutionary/STS** (selection, path dependence, socio-technical regimes, the social shaping of technology). What RP will not accept is *atheoretical measurement*. The contribution must change how an innovation-studies reader understands a mechanism, an institution, or a system — and the argument must be legible across disciplines, not buried in one field's jargon.
