Rainer Kattel

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Rainer Kattel is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Kattel has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 14 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Rainer Kattel's work include Regional Development and Policy (13 papers), Innovation Policy and R&D (12 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (8 papers). Rainer Kattel is often cited by papers focused on Regional Development and Policy (13 papers), Innovation Policy and R&D (12 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (8 papers). Rainer Kattel collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, United Kingdom and United States. Rainer Kattel's co-authors include Mariana Mazzucato, Veiko Lember, Piret Tõnurist, Ringa Raudla, Tarmo Kalvet, Erkki Karo, Josh Ryan‐Collins, Ines Mergel, Baldur Þórhallsson and Wolfgang Drechsler and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Kattel

68 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Mission-oriented innovation policy and dynamic capabiliti... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2019 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mission-oriented innovation policy and dynamic capabilities in the public sector
    2018 243 citations Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato profile →
  2. Challenge-Driven Innovation Policy: Towards a New Policy Toolkit
    2019 151 citations Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rainer Kattel Estonia 22 582 528 518 376 262 72 1.8k
Alessandro Sancino United Kingdom 20 551 0.9× 219 0.4× 336 0.6× 337 0.9× 509 1.9× 67 2.0k
Susana Borrás Denmark 23 1.1k 2.0× 1.1k 2.0× 749 1.4× 574 1.5× 359 1.4× 80 2.7k
Carter Walter Bloch Denmark 21 269 0.5× 421 0.8× 455 0.9× 305 0.8× 243 0.9× 55 1.7k
Darko Milošević 4 386 0.7× 728 1.4× 1.2k 2.3× 420 1.1× 494 1.9× 5 2.6k
Michael H. Best United States 12 351 0.6× 682 1.3× 702 1.4× 249 0.7× 254 1.0× 22 1.7k
Susan Christopherson United States 30 539 0.9× 1.3k 2.5× 522 1.0× 256 0.7× 773 3.0× 54 3.1k
David A. Wolfe Canada 23 638 1.1× 857 1.6× 820 1.6× 702 1.9× 279 1.1× 70 2.2k
Markku Sotarauta Finland 26 852 1.5× 984 1.9× 363 0.7× 557 1.5× 430 1.6× 86 2.3k
Peter Navarro United States 20 215 0.4× 504 1.0× 562 1.1× 214 0.6× 286 1.1× 67 1.9k
Grahame Thompson United Kingdom 19 544 0.9× 312 0.6× 438 0.8× 76 0.2× 591 2.3× 76 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Rainer Kattel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rainer Kattel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Kattel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kattel, Rainer, et al.. (2025). Policy capacities for mission-oriented innovation policy: A case study of UKRI and the industrial strategy challenge fund. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 214. 124049–124049. 1 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer. (2023). Capacitações dinâmicas do setor público: rumo a uma nova síntese. Revista do Serviço Público. 74(1). 12–41. 3 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer, et al.. (2023). The Case of the UK's Government Digital Service: The Professionalisation of a Paradigmatic Public Digital Agency. Digital Government Research and Practice. 4(4). 1–15. 1 indexed citations
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Drechsler, Wolfgang, et al.. (2023). Islamic public administration and Islamic public value: Towards a research agenda. Public Policy and Administration. 39(4). 608–624. 5 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer, Wolfgang Drechsler, & Erkki Karo. (2022). How to Make an Entrepreneurial State. Yale University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer, Wolfgang Drechsler, & Erkki Karo. (2022). Innovation Bureaucracies: Let's Make the State Entrepreneurial.
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Kattel, Rainer. (2022). Discussion Paper 267. Econstor (Econstor). 8 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer, Wolfgang Drechsler, & Erkki Karo. (2022). How to Make an Entrepreneurial State. Yale University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Albala, Sarah, et al.. (2021). Applying market shaping approaches to increase access to assistive technology in low- and middle-income countries. Assistive Technology. 33(sup1). 124–135. 8 indexed citations
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Albala, Sarah, Frida Kasteng, Arne H. Eide, & Rainer Kattel. (2021). Scoping review of economic evaluations of assistive technology globally. Assistive Technology. 33(sup1). 50–67. 11 indexed citations
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Holloway, Catherine, Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramírez, Priya Morjaria, et al.. (2021). A review of innovation strategies and processes to improve access to AT: Looking ahead to open innovation ecosystems. Assistive Technology. 33(sup1). 68–86. 11 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer, et al.. (2020). Industriestrategie der nächsten Generation für Deutschland. Wirtschaftsdienst. 100(10). 757–762.
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Raudla, Ringa, et al.. (2018). The European Union as a Trigger of Discursive Change: The Impact of the Structural Deficit Rule in Estonia and Latvia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(2). 1–15. 5 indexed citations
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Lember, Veiko, Rainer Kattel, & Tarmo Kalvet. (2014). Public procurement, innovation and policy : international perspectives. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 27 indexed citations
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Täht, Karin, Olev Must, Kätlin Peets, & Rainer Kattel. (2014). Learning motivation from a cross-cultural perspective: a moving target?. Educational Research and Evaluation. 20(4). 255–274. 4 indexed citations
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Raudla, Ringa & Rainer Kattel. (2011). Why Did Estonia Choose Fiscal Retrenchment after the 2008 Crisis?. Journal of Public Policy. 31(2). 163–186. 60 indexed citations
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Karo, Erkki & Rainer Kattel. (2010). The Copying Paradox: Why Converging Policies but Diverging Capacities in Eastern European Innovation Systems?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2(2). 167–206. 15 indexed citations
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Davies, Susan, et al.. (2005). The effect of diet, sex and mating status on longevity in Mediterranean fruit flies (), Diptera: Tephritidae. Experimental Gerontology. 40(10). 784–792. 32 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer. (2004). GOVERNANCE OF INNOVATION POLICY: THE CASE OF ESTONIA. Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 8(4). 397–418. 8 indexed citations
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Kattel, Rainer & Rein Anton. (2004). THE ESTONIAN GENOME PROJECT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 8(1/2). 106–128. 5 indexed citations

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