OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Technology Transfer is 9. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	143
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	95
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	70
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	50
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	50
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	48
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	44
(Re)envisioning the role of technology transfer intermediaries in socio-technical transition	44
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	41
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	36
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	33
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	32
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	32
The KSTE + I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions	32
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	32
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	31
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	30
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	29
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	29
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	29
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	29
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	28
Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship	28
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	28

Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	27
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	26
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	26
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	25
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	24
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
The costs of collaborative innovation	23
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	21
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	21
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	21
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	21
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	21
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	21
Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework	20
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	20
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	20
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	19
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	19
Academic intrapreneurship for health care innovation: the importance of influence, perception, and time management in knowledge commercialization at a University’s Medical Centre	19
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	19
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	19
Copyrights for the technology transfer of government software	18
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	17
Shaping regional futures: how education and career imprints of officials drive the rise of emerging industries	17
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	17
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	17
University-industry collaborations: an international perspective	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
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	16
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	16
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	16
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	16
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	16
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	16
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	15
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	15
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	15
A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship	15
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	15
The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers	15
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	15
Effects of knowledge spillovers between competitors on patent quality: what patent citations reveal about a global duopoly	14
Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	14
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	14
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	14
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	13
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	13

From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	13
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	12
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	12
A novel method to identify potential collaborators with a patent-based knowledge graph	12
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	12
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	12
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	12
Recalibrating, reconfiguring, and appropriating innovation: a semantic network analysis of China’s mass innovation and mass entrepreneurship (MIME) initiatives	12
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	11
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	11
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	11
Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts	11
Technology transfer as an enabler for the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurial universities	11
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	11
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	11
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	11
How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities?	11
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	10
Does R&D cooperation with competitors cause firms to invest in R&D more intensively? evidence from Korean manufacturing firms	10
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	10
Identifying the implementation effect of technology transfer policy using system dynamics: a case study in Liaoning, China	10
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	9
Exploring the impact of knowledge network heterogeneity on new product development: a perspective on knowledge combination	9
Productivity of innovation: the effect of innovativeness on start-up survival	9
Does NIH select the right healthcare ventures through the SBIR grant program?	9
Awareness of artificial intelligence: diffusion of AI versus ChatGPT information with implications for entrepreneurship	9
When the marketplace comes to the research laboratory: technology transfer efficiency of innovation-driven publicly funded research centers	9
Are sustainability-oriented investors different? Evidence from equity crowdfunding	9
Entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence: a bibliometric analysis	9
Entrepreneurial finance in Europe and the Russian war against Ukraine	9
Analyzing the direct role of governmental organizations in artificial intelligence innovation	9
To entrepreneur or not to entrepreneur? How identity discrepancies influence enthusiasm for academic entrepreneurship	9