Conquer the R&R Award - Call for Proposals

Overview, Motivation, and Goal

The Lam-Larsen Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Initiative at LFCoB is pleased to continue to offer (Since 2022) the Conquer the R&R Award. As past research task forces at the college and university levels have shown, the number one barrier for faculty publishing high impact and high rigor work is the lack of time (primarily due to high teaching and service-related obligations). This grant will support faculty who submit their work to high impact and high rigor journals on the topic of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Research and receive a Revise and Resubmit (R&R). The goals of the award are to (a) support the mission of the Initiative in becoming a center of excellence, and (b) support innovation and ethics-oriented elements of SF State’s mission1.

Award

One assigned time for faculty who receive R&R from qualifying Peer Reviewed Journals (PRJs). Assigned timeshave to be coordinated with department chair. If there are more than one faculty from the college applying for the same R&R, the release would be provided based on the order of authorship and/through the grant committee’s discussions with the authors.2,3

Eligibility

  1. Period under review: The PRJ submission must have received a revise and resubmit anytime in Academic Year.
  2. Who qualifies to apply:
    • Full-time tenured, tenure-track faculty members who are on active duties.
    • The applicant needs to demonstrate that the workload is commensurate to the assigned time provided. This canbe demonstrated by order of authorship, and/or statement from co-authors about the applicant’s role in the research project and anticipated revisions.
  3. What qualifies to apply for the award:
    • R&Rs from PRJs can be considered based on the following criteria (must meet both criteria):
      • Quality and Rigor: PRJ is listed in Financial Times 50 Journals or Dallas 24 list (for faculty from Economics see footnote4). In addition, R&Rs from Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of Product Innovation Management will be provided special considerations.
      • Relevance of the publication to I&E: This will be determined by assessing the contents of the article. In other words, the articles will be evaluated to determine if their theory development, research questions, and/or hypotheses directly investigate constructs relating to any of the following topics: Care Design, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Founders, High-technology, Innovation, Innovation strategy, Innovation management, Innovation policy and regulation, New products, New product development, Open Innovation, Product design (UI and UX), Research and Development (R&D), R&D Management, Responsible Entrepreneurship, Responsible Innovation, Start-ups, Social entrepreneurship, Social innovation, Sustainable business models, Sustainable innovation, Sustainable entrepreneurship, Technology Foresight, and Value creation.

Application Process

Faculty members who think they have met the above requirements and want to be considered forthe grant should email rieresearchprogram@sfsu.edu anytime during the academic year, with “Conquer the R&R Award” as the subject of the email and with the following items:

  1. The notification of the revise and resubmit from the journal’s editorial team
  2. The reviewer comments from the latest round of reviews
  3. The working manuscript
  4. Within five pages provide revision plan and details of assigned responsibilities (if more than one author).
  5. If more than one author, a statement from co-authors about the applicant’s role in the research project and in revising the manuscript.

The review committee reserves the right to request for additional documentation and the decisions made by the committee are final.

Other requirements

Awardees will acknowledge the support of the RI&E Research Initiative (Under the Lam-Larsen Initiatives) in all presentations and publications.

 

Footnotes:

1 - Between this grant and the Advance to Submission grant, the Initiative anticipates funding up to 3 awards for AY 2023-24.

2 - In the case of equal authorship and if all authors apply for the grant, no assigned time will be awarded and the monies allocated for the grant with be equally divided among the applicants in order to support their respective research programs. No more than one course release per paper across all authors will be awarded.

3 - Be aware that the Dean’s office will not approve any overload requests from faculty for the AY that they avail of a course release.

4 - American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Economic Studies.