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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Technology Transfer is 11. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Revealing the impact of technological niche on value co-creation: the moderating role of the open innovation ecosystem structure	76
Science-technology coherence and invention impact: evidence from pharmaceutical patents	62
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	62
Directed technical change and renewable energies: policy incentives to promote solar innovations	56
(Re)envisioning the role of technology transfer intermediaries in socio-technical transition	51
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	50
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	50
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	47
The KSTE + I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions	44
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	42
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	39
Agglomeration and spillovers: concentration versus dispersion. Evidence from regional innovative startups in Italy	39
Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux	37
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	37
Triple Helix Twins and university impact spillovers for achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals	36
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	35
Networked governance for innovation: how intergovernmental networks shape policy-driven collaborative innovation in China	35
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	33
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	32
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	31
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	30
Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	30
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	30
Foreign technological entry, intellectual property rights, and technology diffusion: evidence from patent filings at the USPTO	28
Mapping entrepreneurial mobility: a machine learning perspective on firm survival and ecosystem dynamics	27

A configurational exploration of how organizational characteristics and multidimensional proximities influence university-industry collaborations	27
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	26
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	26
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	26
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	25
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	24
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	24
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	24
Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship	24
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	24
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	23
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	23
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	23
The role of traceability technologies in the sustainable evolution of the luxury industry	22
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	22
Building middle managers’ managerial dynamic capabilities through collaborations: exploring the microfoundations in a university–industry consortium	22
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	22
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	21
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	21
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	21
Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework	21
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	21
Academic intrapreneurship for health care innovation: the importance of influence, perception, and time management in knowledge commercialization at a University’s Medical Centre	20
Short-run pain, long-term gain? R&D investment and firm growth in Indian pharma	20
Correction: The ‘underdog’ informal Vietnamese enterprises: R&D, innovation and productivity performances	20
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	20
AI and Web3 in sustainable development: a quadruple helix approach to reshaping regional innovation and startup ecosystems in China	20
How does philanthropy influence the diffusion of knowledge? Impacts from donations on scientific publications and patents in STEM	19
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	18
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	18
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	17
Shaping regional futures: how education and career imprints of officials drive the rise of emerging industries	17
The role of research and other inputs for the development and impacts of standards	17
Web4-enabled technology transfer and firm innovation: a resource orchestration perspective	17
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	17
R&D subsidy design and innovation additionality: disentangling the mechanisms in South Korea’s innovation system	17
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	17
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	16
When complexity does not mean chaos: nonlinear dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems	16
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	16
University-industry collaborations: an international perspective	16
Does the fusion of incubatees’ entrepreneurial skills with the incubator’s services and facilities boost the performance of technology business incubators?	16
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	15
Knowledge co-creation in innovation ecosystems and breakthrough innovation: the contradictory roles of capability reconfiguration	15
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	15
The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers	15
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	15
A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship	15
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	15
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	15

A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	14
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	14
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	14
The impact of technology transfer on industrial upgrading in China: an analysis based on patent data	14
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	14
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	14
The Bell inequality: applying the lessons of compulsory licensing to AI/ML and the Big 5	14
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	14
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	14
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	14
A thematic review of 45 years of The Journal of Technology Transfer	13
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	13
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	13
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	13
A novel method to identify potential collaborators with a patent-based knowledge graph	13
Beyond the firm: how government R&D support and digital capacity shape firms’ R&D response to underperformance	13
Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts	13
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	12
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	12
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	12
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	12
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	12
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	12
Exploring the research landscape and theoretical frameworks of enterprise scientific capability: a bibliometric investigation	12
Local industrial cohesion as a diffusion mechanism for incremental knowledge: evidence from business and economic indicators in U.S. Counties	12
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	12
Awareness of artificial intelligence: diffusion of AI versus ChatGPT information with implications for entrepreneurship	12
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	11
Technology transfer as an enabler for the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurial universities	11
When the marketplace comes to the research laboratory: technology transfer efficiency of innovation-driven publicly funded research centers	11
Research on the impact of policy tool combinations on digital technology R&D alliances in complex network environments	11
Breaking data silos: How does public data open access influence enterprise collaborative innovation?	11
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	11
Predicting post-campaign scenarios of equity crowdfunded firms: a machine learning approach with interaction effect analysis	11
How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities?	11
Entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence: a bibliometric analysis	11
To entrepreneur or not to entrepreneur? How identity discrepancies influence enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship	11
Identifying the implementation effect of technology transfer policy using system dynamics: a case study in Liaoning, China	11