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Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Bryson, John R. (2011). Openness, knowledge, innovation and growth in UK business services. Research policy, 40 (10), pp. 1438-1452.

Mole, Kevin F.; Hart, Mark; Roper, Stephen and Saal, David S. (2009). Assessing the effectiveness of business support services in England:evidence from a theory based evaluation. International Small Business Journal, 27 (5), pp. 557-582.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2009). Organizing the innovation process:complementarities in innovation networking. Industry and Innovation, 16 (3), pp. 273-290.

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Du, Jun (2009). Innovation, ownership and profitability. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 27 (3), pp. 424-434.

Roper, Stephen; Du, Jun and Love, James H. (2008). Modelling the innovation value chain. Research policy, 37 (6-7), pp. 961-977.

Lenihan, Helena; Hart, Mark and Roper, Stephen (2007). Industrial policy evaluation:theoretical foundations and empirical innovations: new wine in new bottles. International Review of Applied Economics, 21 (3), pp. 313-319.

Lenihan, Helena; Hart, Mark and Roper, Stephen (2005). Developing an evaluative framework for industrial policy in Ireland:fulfilling the audit trail or an aid to policy development. Quarterly Economic Commentary , pp. 69-86.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2005). Economists' perceptions versus managers' decisions:an experiment in transaction cost analysis. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29 (1), pp. 19-36.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2004). The organisation of innovation:collaboration, cooperation and multifunctional groups in UK and German manufacturing. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28 (3), pp. 379-395.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2001). Outsourcing in the innovation process:Locational and strategic determinants. Papers in Regional Science, 80 (3), pp. 317-336.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2001). Location and network effects on innovation success:evidence for UK, German and Irish manufacturing plants. Research policy, 30 (4), pp. 643-661.

Roper, Stephen Cross-border and local co-operation on the island of Ireland:An economic perspective. Political Geography, 26 (5), pp. 554-574.

Roper, Stephen and Love, James H. Innovation and export performance:evidence from UK and German manufacturing plants. Research policy, 31 (7), pp. 1087-1102.

Roper, Stephen and Love, James H. Innovation and regional absorptive capacity:the labour market dimension. Annals of Regional Science, 40 (2), pp. 437-447.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen Internal versus external R&D:a study of R&D choice with sample selection. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 9 (2), pp. 239-255.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen Organizing innovation: complementarities between cross-functional teams. Technovation, 29 (3), pp. 192-203.

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Hewitt-Dundas, Nola Service innovation, embeddedness and business performance:evidence from Northern Ireland. Regional studies, 44 (8), pp. 983-1004.

Roper, Stephen; Love, James H. and Añón Higón, Dolores The determinants of export performance:evidence for manufacturing plants in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 53 (5), pp. 586-615.

Roper, Stephen; Hewitt-Dundas, Nola and Love, James H. An ex ante evaluation framework for the regional benefits of publicly supported R&D projects. Research policy, 33 (3), pp. 487-509.

Du, Jun; Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen The innovation decision:an economic analysis. Technovation, 27 (12), pp. 766-773.

Book Section

Mole, Kevin F.; Hart, Mark; Roper, Stephen; Saal, David and Storey, D. Differential gains from Business Link support and advice:a treatment effects approach. IN: Entrepreneurship and public policy. Smallbone, David (ed.) The international library of entrepreneurship series . Edward Elgar.

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen Innovation, productivity and growth:an analysis of Irish data. IN: Small and medium-sized enterprises and the global economy. Susman, Gerald I. (ed.) Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar.

Grimes, Seamus and Roper, Stephen Knowledge-based competition:implications for sustainable development in rural Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. IN: A living countryside? The politics of sustainable development in rural Ireland. McDonagh, John; Varley, Tony and Shortall, Sally (eds) Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning . London (UK): Ashgate.

Roper, Stephen; Hewitt-Dundas, Nola and Love, James H. R&D centres in less favoured regions:towards an ex-ante impact assessment. IN: Irish regional development. O'Leary, Eoin (ed.) Dublin (IE): Liffey press.

Monograph

Hart, Mark; Driffield, Nigel L.; Roper, Stephen and Mole, Kevin F. (2008). Evaluation of regional selective assistance (RSA) and selective finance for investment in England (SFIE) 2000-2004 Report for the DTI. Discussion Paper. Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Hewitt-Dundas, Nola (2008). Service innovation, embeddedness and business performance:UK regional evidence. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Roper, Stephen; Du, Jun and Love, James H. (2006). The innovation value chain. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK). (Unpublished)

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Mangiarotti, Giovanni (2006). Organising the innovation process:complementarities in innovation networking. Working Paper. Aston University.

Mole, Kevin F.; Roper, Stephen; Hart, Mark; Storey, David and Saal, David (2006). Economic impact study of business link local service:final report. Project Report. Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Roper, Stephen; Du, Jun and Love, James H. (2006). Knowledge sourcing and innovation. Working Paper. Aston University.

Martin, Lynn; Smith, Izzy W.; Roper, Stephen and Scott, Jonathan Board gender diversity in UK firms – recent trends and performance eEffects. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham.

Bakhshi, Hasan; Edwards, John; Roper, Stephen; Scully, Judith and Shaw, Duncan Creating innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises:evaluating the short-term effects of the creative credits pilot. Working Paper. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), London UK).

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Du, Jun Innovation, ownership and profitability. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Du, Jun Innovation, ownership and profitability. Working Paper. DRUID, (DK).

Love, James H.; Roper, Stephen and Mangiarotti, G. Organizing innovation:complementarities between cross-functional teams. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Roper, Stephen; Love, James H. and Du, Jun The limits of open innovation:openness and (quasi-)markets in the organization of innovation. Working Paper. Aston University, Birmingham (UK).

Conference or Workshop Item

Love, James H. and Roper, Stephen (2003). Enabling innovation:knowledge control, sharing and coordination boundaries in UK and German manufacturing. IN: Innovation in Europe: dynamics, institutions and values. 2003-05-08 - 2003-05-09.

Roper, Stephen and Love, James H. (2001). Innovation and export performance:evidence from UK and German plants. IN: 28th EARIE annual conference. 2001-08-30 - 2001-09-02.