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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	135
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	107
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	90
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	67
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	47
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	47
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	46
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	43
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	42
Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux	39
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	37
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	33
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	33
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	32
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	31
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	31
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	30
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	30
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	29
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	29
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	29
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	28
Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship	28
Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	28
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	27

Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	27
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	26
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	26
Inclusive digital finance: the industry of equity crowdfunding	26
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	25
The costs of collaborative innovation	25
University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development	23
Building middle managers’ managerial dynamic capabilities through collaborations: exploring the microfoundations in a university–industry consortium	23
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	22
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	21
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	20
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	20
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	20
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	20
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	20
Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework	19
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	19
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	19
Chasing two hares at once? Effect of joint institutional change for promoting commercial use of university knowledge and scientific research	19
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	18
Academic intrapreneurship for health care innovation: the importance of influence, perception, and time management in knowledge commercialization at a University’s Medical Centre	18
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	17
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	17
Copyrights for the technology transfer of government software	17
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	17
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	17
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	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	16
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	16
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	16
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	16
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	16
A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship	15
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	15
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	15
University-industry collaborations: an international perspective	15
The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers	15
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	15
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	15
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	15
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	14
A thematic review of 45 years of The Journal of Technology Transfer	14
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	14
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	14
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	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	12
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	12
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	12

Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	12
Recalibrating, reconfiguring, and appropriating innovation: a semantic network analysis of China’s mass innovation and mass entrepreneurship (MIME) initiatives	12
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	12
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	12
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	11
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	11
Technology transfer as an enabler for the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurial universities	11
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	11
Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts	11
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	11
Entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence: a bibliometric analysis	11
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	11
How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities?	11
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	11
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	11
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	11
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	11
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	10
Awareness of artificial intelligence: diffusion of AI versus ChatGPT information with implications for entrepreneurship	10
Correction to: The influence of standards and patents on long‑term economic growth	10
Identifying the implementation effect of technology transfer policy using system dynamics: a case study in Liaoning, China	10
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	10