OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Revealing the impact of technological niche on value co-creation: the moderating role of the open innovation ecosystem structure	67
Agglomeration and spillovers: concentration versus dispersion. Evidence from regional innovative startups in Italy	61
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	56
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	48
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	48
Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux	46
Directed technical change and renewable energies: policy incentives to promote solar innovations	43
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	43
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	41
(Re)envisioning the role of technology transfer intermediaries in socio-technical transition	41
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	37
The KSTE + I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions	36
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	35
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	33
Science-technology coherence and invention impact: evidence from pharmaceutical patents	33
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	32
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	32
Triple Helix Twins and university impact spillovers for achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals	31
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	30
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	30
Mapping entrepreneurial mobility: a machine learning perspective on firm survival and ecosystem dynamics	28
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	28
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	27
Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	26
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	26

Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	26
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	25
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	25
Foreign technological entry, intellectual property rights, and technology diffusion: evidence from patent filings at the USPTO	25
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	24
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	22
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	22
Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship	22
The role of traceability technologies in the sustainable evolution of the luxury industry	22
A configurational exploration of how organizational characteristics and multidimensional proximities influence university-industry collaborations	22
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	21
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
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	21
Building middle managers’ managerial dynamic capabilities through collaborations: exploring the microfoundations in a university–industry consortium	21
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
Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework	20
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	20
Correction: The ‘underdog’ informal Vietnamese enterprises: R&D, innovation and productivity performances	19
AI and Web3 in sustainable development: a quadruple helix approach to reshaping regional innovation and startup ecosystems in China	19
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	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
Web4-enabled technology transfer and firm innovation: a resource orchestration perspective	18
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	18
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	18
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	18
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	18
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	17
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	17
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	16
Shaping regional futures: how education and career imprints of officials drive the rise of emerging industries	16
How does philanthropy influence the diffusion of knowledge? Impacts from donations on scientific publications and patents in STEM	16
R&D subsidy design and innovation additionality: disentangling the mechanisms in South Korea’s innovation system	15
Does the fusion of incubatees’ entrepreneurial skills with the incubator’s services and facilities boost the performance of technology business incubators?	15
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	15
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	15
The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers	14
When complexity does not mean chaos: nonlinear dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems	14
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	14
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	14
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	14
The impact of technology transfer on industrial upgrading in China: an analysis based on patent data	14
The role of research and other inputs for the development and impacts of standards	14
University-industry collaborations: an international perspective	14
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	14
A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship	13
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	13
Knowledge co-creation in innovation ecosystems and breakthrough innovation: the contradictory roles of capability reconfiguration	13
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	13

The Bell inequality: applying the lessons of compulsory licensing to AI/ML and the Big 5	13
A novel method to identify potential collaborators with a patent-based knowledge graph	13
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	13
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	13
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	13
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	12
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	12
A thematic review of 45 years of The Journal of Technology Transfer	12
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	12
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	12
Beyond the firm: how government R&D support and digital capacity shape firms’ R&D response to underperformance	12
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	12
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	12
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	12
Local industrial cohesion as a diffusion mechanism for incremental knowledge: evidence from business and economic indicators in U.S. Counties	11
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	11
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	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
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	11
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	11
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	11
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	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