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respol-contribution-framing
Use when the one-sentence "so what" is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — converting solid results into an explicit advance for innovation theory/evidence that usually carries a policy or managerial implication. Frames the claim; it does not build the mechanism (respol-theory-development) or polish prose (respol-writing-style).
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# Contribution Framing (respol-contribution-framing)
## When to trigger
- The results are in but the paper cannot say in one sentence what innovation studies now knows that it didn't
- The contribution is stated as "we find a significant effect of X on Y" (a result, not a contribution)
- There is no policy or managerial implication, or one is bolted on as a token final paragraph
- A referee says "the contribution is unclear / overclaimed / not commensurate with the evidence"
- The intro promises one contribution and the discussion delivers another
## The Research Policy contribution bar
RP rewards a **genuine contribution to innovation theory or evidence over narrow technique**. A submittable contribution states (a) what innovation-studies readers believed before, (b) what they should believe after, and (c) why it matters — almost always with a **policy or managerial implication** that follows from the mechanism, not from a generic call to "inform policymakers." The implication must be *earned*: it should change a specific design choice (a subsidy rule, an IP regime, a university-industry interface, an R&D organizational practice), not gesture at relevance.
