OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Technology Transfer is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Collaborative innovation in emerging innovation systems: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe	54
Inclusive digital finance: the industry of equity crowdfunding	53
Internal and external networks, and incubatees’ performance in dynamic environments: entrepreneurial learning’s mediating effect	48
Digital social entrepreneurship: the N-Helix response to stakeholders’ COVID-19 needs	44
University-SME collaboration and innovation performance: the role of informal relationships and absorptive capacity	40
Start-ups, Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers	38
Technology transfer offices as providers of science and technology entrepreneurship education	37
Scientist or Entrepreneur? Identity centrality, university entrepreneurial mission, and academic entrepreneurial intention	32
The multiple faces of the entrepreneurial university: a review of the prevailing theoretical approaches	29
Gender stereotypes in equity crowdfunding: the effect of gender bias on the interpretation of quality signals	27
The role of individual ambidexterity for organizational performance: examining effects of ambidextrous knowledge seeking and offering	26
Addressing academic researcher priorities through science and technology entrepreneurship education	26
Academic entrepreneurship: founding and governance determinants in university spin-off ventures	25
The brokering role of technology transfer offices within entrepreneurial ecosystems: an investigation of macro–meso–micro factors	25
The costs of collaborative innovation	25
Complementarity effect in the innovation strategy: internal R&D and acquisition of capital with embodied technology	24
Pathways to academic entrepreneurship: the determinants of female scholars’ entrepreneurial intentions	24
Technological learning strategies and technology upgrading intensity in the mining industry: evidence from Brazil	23
Establishing successful university–industry collaborations: barriers and enablers deconstructed	22
Success factors of initial coin offerings	22
The interaction between knowledge management and technology transfer: a current literature review between 2013 and 2018	22
Widening the borders of entrepreneurial ecosystem through the international lens	22
How do entrepreneurs perform digital marketing across the customer journey? A review and discussion of the main uses	21
Emotional skills for entrepreneurial success: the promise of entrepreneurship education and policy	21
Digital technology and national entrepreneurship: An ecosystem perspective	20

University technology transfer, regional specialization and local dynamics: lessons from Italy	20
The influence of standards and patents on long-term economic growth	19
Identifying artificial intelligence (AI) invention: a novel AI patent dataset	19
Expanding corporate finance perspectives to equity crowdfunding	19
Determinants of research productivity in Korean Universities: the role of research funding	18
Advancing HEIs’ third-mission through dynamic capabilities: the role of leadership and agreement on vision and goals	17
Institutional conditions and social innovations in emerging economies: insights from Mexican enterprises’ initiatives for protecting/preventing the effect of violent events	17
Investors’ industry preference in equity crowdfunding	17
Systematic literature review paper: the regional innovation system-university-science park nexus	17
They do not look alike: what kind of private investors do equity crowdfunded firms attract?	16
Research on science and technological entrepreneurship education: What needs to happen next?	16
When incubator resources are crucial: survival chances of student startups operating in an academic incubator	16
Effective models of science, technology and engineering entrepreneurship education: current and future research	16
Are sustainability-oriented investors different? Evidence from equity crowdfunding	15
Conceptualising the entrepreneurial university: the stakeholder approach	15
A bit of basic, a bit of applied? R&D strategies and firm performance	15
University technology transfer and the evolution of regional specialization: the case of Turin	15
The birth of new HGEs: internationalization through new digital technologies	15
Do corruption and regulations matter for home country nascent international entrepreneurship?	14
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	14
Local-foreign technology interface, resource-based development, and industrial policy: how Chile and Malaysia are escaping the middle-income trap	14
Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competencies and institutional voids	13
Technology transfer in the construction industry	13
Local capacity, innovative entrepreneurial places and global connections: an overview	12
How to acquire legitimacy and become a player in a regional innovation ecosystem? The case of a young university	12
Teaching science and technology PhD students in entrepreneurship-potential learning opportunities and outcomes	12
Barriers to university–industry collaboration in an emerging market: Firm-level evidence from Turkey	12
Strategic entrepreneurial choice between competing crowdfunding platforms	12
Equity crowdfunding, market timing, and firm capital structure	12
Knowledge transfer from universities to low- and medium-technology industries: evidence from Italian winemakers	12
Filling the void of family leadership: institutional support to business model changes in the Italian Industry 4.0 experience	11
Innovation effects of universities of applied sciences: an assessment of regional heterogeneity	11
How academic researchers select collaborative research projects: a choice experiment	11
Helping the Little Guy: the impact of government awards on small technology firms	10
The valorization of non-patent intellectual property in academic medical centers	10
Migrant inventors as agents of technological change	10
Corrupt encounters of the fairer sex: female entrepreneurs and their corruption perceptions/experience	10
How do universities shape founding teams? Social proximity and informal mechanisms of knowledge transfer in student entrepreneurship	10
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	10
The productivity impact of R&D and FDI spillovers: characterising regional path development	10
Universities and start-up creation by Ph.D. graduates: the role of scientific and social capital of academic laboratories	10
Financial constraints to investing in intangibles: Do innovative and non-innovative firms differ?	10
The effect of science and technology parks on tenant firms: a literature review	9
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	9
How do human capital and R&D structure facilitate FDI knowledge spillovers to local firm innovation? a panel threshold approach	9
The influence of shared R&D-project innovativeness perceptions on university-industry collaboration performance	9
Evaluating the indirect effects of cluster-based innovation policies: the case of the Technological Research Institutes in France	9
Innovation and innovator assessment in R&I ecosystems: the case of the EU Framework Programme	9
Paving the path: drivers of standardization participation at ISO	9
Transfer of entrepreneurship education best practices from business schools to engineering and technology institutions: evidence from Pakistan	9

Innovative behavior among service workers and the importance of leadership: evidence from an emerging economy	9
How to foster innovation in SMEs: evidence of the effectiveness of a project-based technology transfer approach	9
Academic engagement with industry: the role of research quality and experience	9
How are companies paying for university research licenses? Empirical evidence from university-firm technology transfer	8
Benchmarking university technology transfer performance with external research funding: a stochastic frontier analysis	8
Knowledge transfer to industry: how academic researchers learn to become boundary spanners during academic engagement	8
The Vietnamese entrepreneurship paradox: how can entrepreneurs thrive without political and economic freedom?	8
A tale of two technological capabilities: economic growth revisited from a technological capability transition perspective	8
University–industry collaboration and firm innovation: an empirical study of the biopharmaceutical industry	8
University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development	8
Effects of knowledge spillovers between competitors on patent quality: what patent citations reveal about a global duopoly	8
Windows of opportunities for catching up: an analysis of ICT sector development in Ukraine	8
Robotisation of the manufacturing industries in the EU: Convergence or divergence?	8
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	8
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	8
Innovation intermediaries for university-industry R&D collaboration: evidence from science parks in Thailand	8
Exploring capabilities of international technology transfer intermediaries between emerging and developed countries	7
Bottom-level organizational changes within entrepreneurial and engaged models of university: insights from Italy	7
Booming house prices: friend or foe of innovative firms?	7
Engines need transmission belts: the importance of people in technology transfer offices	7
Enhancing University–Industry collaboration: the role of intermediary organizations	7
Gatekeepers in regional innovation networks: Evidence from an emerging economy	7
Who wins the race for knowledge-based competitiveness? Comparing European and North American FDI patterns	7
Big science and innovation: gestation lag from procurement to patents for CERN suppliers	7
Regional technological capabilities and green opportunities in Europe	7
Automation, organizational ambidexterity and the stability of employee relations: new tensions arising between corporate entrepreneurship, innovation management and stakeholder management	7
Environmental dynamism and cooperative innovation: the moderating role of state ownership and institutional development	7
Quality of research as source and signal: revisiting the valorization process beyond substitution vs complementarity	7
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	6
Catching up in clean energy technologies: a patent analysis	6
In pursuit of smart growth: technology transfer theories, policies and practices	6
Technological relatedness and industrial transformation:	6
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, regional clusters, and industrial districts: Historical transformations or rhetorical devices?	6
Financial performance studies of university spin-off companies (USOs) in the West Midlands	6
The formation of Coasean institutions to provide university knowledge for innovation: a case study and econometric evidence for Switzerland	6
Regional knowledge spaces: the interplay of entry-relatedness and entry-potential for technological change and growth	6
Knowledge properties and the creative response in the global economy: European evidence for the years 1990–2016	6
Does founding team composition influence external investment? The role of founding team prior experience and founder CEO	6
The effect of regional resources on innovation: a firm-centered approach	6
Do company-owned academic patents influence firm performance? Evidence from the Italian industry	6
The effects of university academic research on firm’s propensity to innovate at local level: evidence from Europe	6
Schumpeterian entrepreneurial digital identity and funding from venture capital firms	6
Does University-industry innovation community affect firms’ inventions? The mediating role of technology transfer	5
Knowledge appropriability and directed technological change: the Schumpeterian creative response in global markets	5
The role of relatedness and strategic linkages between domestic and MNE sectors in regional branching and resilience	5
Automation and related technologies: a mapping of the new knowledge base	5
Project management practices in major university-industry R&D collaboration programs – a case study	5
The European research landscape under the Horizon 2020 Lenses: the interaction between science centers, public institutions, and industry	5
Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	5
Understanding the drivers of patent performance of University Science Parks in Turkey	5
Tertiary education and science as drivers of high-technology exporting firms growth in developing countries	5
Taking a closer look at the regionally clustered firms: How can ambidexterity explain the link between management, entrepreneurship, and innovation in a post-industrialized world?	5
How does university-industry collaboration relate to research resources and technical-scientific activities? An analysis at the laboratory level	5
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	5
Environmental innovation and R&D collaborations: Firm decisions in the innovation efficiency context	4
Holistic ecosystems for enhancing innovative collaborations in university–industry consortia	4
How bricoleurs go international: a European cross-country study considering the moderating role of governmental entrepreneurship support programs	4
Biopharmaceutical innovation ecosystems: a stakeholder model and the case of Lombardy	4
The role of former collaborations in strengthening interorganizational links: evidence from the evolution of the Chinese innovation network	4
Which neighbor is more conducive to innovation? The moderating effect of partners’ innovation	4
Instrument policy mix and firm size: is there complementarity between R&D subsidies and R&D tax credits?	4
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	4
Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	4
Which political regimes foster entrepreneurship? An international examination	4
Space–time analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystems	4
A synthesis of boundary conditions with adopting digital platforms in SMEs: an intuitionistic multi-layer decision-making framework	4
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	4
Public support for research in artificial intelligence: a descriptive study of U.S. Department of Defense SBIR Projects	4
Why is Germany less entrepreneurial? A behavioral reasoning perspective	4
Industrial funding and university technology transfer: the moderating role of intellectual property rights enforcement	4
Co-evolution patterns of university patenting and technological specialization in European regions	4
Academic spin-off activities and research performance: the mediating role of research collaboration	4
Foreign direct investment (FDI): friend or foe of non-innovating firms?	4
Foreign patents for the technology transfer from laboratories of U.S. federal agencies	4
Family firm ambidexterity: the influence of paradoxical tensions and the Entrepreneurial Family’s cohesion	4
Digitalization, inter-organizational collaboration, and technology transfer	4
Leveraging SMEs technologies adoption in the Covid-19 pandemic: a case study on Twitter-based user-generated content	4