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research-policy
Use when targeting Research Policy or deciding whether an innovation-studies / science-technology-policy manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Research Policy (research-policy)
## Journal positioning
Research Policy, published by Elsevier, is the flagship journal of innovation studies — the interdisciplinary field studying the production, diffusion, and exploitation of science, technology, and innovation, and the policies and institutions that shape them. It draws on economics, management, sociology, geography, and political science, but it is not a pure management journal: the unit of interest is innovation and the systems, organizations, and policies around it. Research Policy rewards a clear contribution to innovation studies grounded in strong evidence or rigorous conceptual work, with relevance to science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy. The audience is innovation scholars across disciplines, so a paper must speak to the innovation conversation, not a narrow firm-strategy or general-management debate.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier / Research Policy site and the submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names Research Policy (or the innovation-studies / STI-policy field) as the venue.
- A paper studies R&D, technological change, innovation systems, science policy, IP, or the organization and economics of innovation.
- A management or economics paper about innovation needs an interdisciplinary, policy-aware home.
- The author needs Research Policy's desk-reject risks and a credible `strategic-management-journal` / `organization-science` / `journal-of-international-business-studies` alternative list.