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respol-literature-positioning
Use when staking the contribution against the innovation-studies literature for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — anchoring in the RP/SPRU canon and showing a genuine gap rather than an incremental replication. Positions the paper; it does not build the mechanism (respol-theory-development) or write the closing claim (respol-contribution-framing).
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# Literature Positioning (respol-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The reference list is "almost entirely economics or management journals" — the RP out-of-scope tell
- A referee says the contribution is "incremental," "we already know this," or "not positioned in the right literature"
- The paper cites RP exemplars superficially but does not engage their arguments
- You cannot name in one sentence what RP readers believed before your paper and what they should believe after
- The gap is stated as "no one has studied X in country Y" (a data gap, not a knowledge gap)
## The Research Policy positioning bar
RP referees are innovation-studies insiders. They expect the paper to be **rooted in the innovation-studies conversation** — RP itself, plus the foundational lineage (Freeman, Nelson & Winter, Pavitt, Dosi, Cohen & Levinthal, Lundvall, Malerba, and the journals around RP: ICC, Technovation, JPIM where genuinely relevant). A reference base drawn only from economics or strategy journals signals the wrong audience and is a documented desk-reject trigger (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Positioning is not a citation dump: it is an argument that there is a **knowledge gap** in how innovation works or is governed, and that this paper closes it.
