respol-theory-development
Use when the conceptual argument is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — building an innovation-studies mechanism or framework that an interdisciplinary readership will accept as a contribution. Builds the theory; it does not run the analysis (respol-data-analysis) or write the final contribution paragraph (respol-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-theory-development --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Theory Development (respol-theory-development) ## When to trigger - The empirics are solid but the paper "just measures something" with no innovation-theory advance - A referee says "the contribution is empirical only" or "what do we learn about innovation we didn't know?" - The argument leans on one borrowed framework (absorptive capacity, NIS, open innovation) by name only - A qualitative/case study has rich data but no crisp constructs or propositions yet - The mechanism linking the innovation cause to the innovation outcome is implicit or hand-waved ## The Research Policy theory bar RP is interdisciplinary, so "theory" is pluralist: it can be **economic** (incentives, market/coordination failures, appropriability), **managerial/organizational** (capabilities, search, recombination, governance of R&D), or **evolutionary/STS** (selection, path dependence, socio-technical regimes, the social shaping of technology). What RP will not accept is *atheoretical measurement*. The contribution must change how an innovation-studies reader understands a mechanism, an institution, or a system — and the argument must be legible across disciplines, not buried in one field's jargon. Because R
- When to trigger
- The Research Policy theory bar
- Building the argument (the innovation-mechanism chain)
- Adapting by tradition
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the respol-theory-development skill do?
Use when the conceptual argument is the bottleneck for a Research Policy (RP) manuscript — building an innovation-studies mechanism or framework that an interdisciplinary readership will accept as a contribution. Builds the theory; it does not run the analysis (respol-data-analysis) or write the final contribution paragraph (respol-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill respol-theory-development --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.