OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Technology Transfer is 10. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	115
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	104
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	75
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	61
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	46
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	44
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	42
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	41
Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux	40
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	40
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	38
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	36
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	35
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	32
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	31
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	30
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	29
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	29
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	28
Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	28
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	28
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	27
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	26
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	26
The costs of collaborative innovation	25

COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	25
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	25
Inclusive digital finance: the industry of equity crowdfunding	25
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	25
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	25
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	24
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	23
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	23
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	23
University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development	21
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	20
Academic intrapreneurship for health care innovation: the importance of influence, perception, and time management in knowledge commercialization at a University’s Medical Centre	19
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	19
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	19
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	19
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	19
Copyrights for the technology transfer of government software	18
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	18
Chasing two hares at once? Effect of joint institutional change for promoting commercial use of university knowledge and scientific research	18
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	18
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	18
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	17
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	17
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	17
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	16
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	16
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	16
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	15
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	15
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	15
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	14
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	14
A thematic review of 45 years of The Journal of Technology Transfer	14
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	14
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	14
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	14
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	14
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	14
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	13
Paving the path: drivers of standardization participation at ISO	13
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	13
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	13
Effects of knowledge spillovers between competitors on patent quality: what patent citations reveal about a global duopoly	13
Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competencies and institutional voids	13
Recalibrating, reconfiguring, and appropriating innovation: a semantic network analysis of China’s mass innovation and mass entrepreneurship (MIME) initiatives	12
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	12
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	12
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	12
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	12
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	12

Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	12
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	12
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	11
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	11
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	11
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	11
Does R&D cooperation with competitors cause firms to invest in R&D more intensively? evidence from Korean manufacturing firms	11
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	11
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	11
Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts	11
Awareness of artificial intelligence: diffusion of AI versus ChatGPT information with implications for entrepreneurship	10
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	10
How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities?	10
Identifying the implementation effect of technology transfer policy using system dynamics: a case study in Liaoning, China	10
Does NIH select the right healthcare ventures through the SBIR grant program?	10
Correction to: The influence of standards and patents on long‑term economic growth	10
Entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence: a bibliometric analysis	10
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	10
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	10