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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	106
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	99
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	71
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	59
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	43
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	40
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	39
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	39
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	38
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	38
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	37
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	35
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	34
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	34
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	32
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	30
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	29
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	29
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	28
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	27
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	27
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	26
Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	25
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	24
The costs of collaborative innovation	24

University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development	24
Inclusive digital finance: the industry of equity crowdfunding	24
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	24
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	24
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	23
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	23
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	23
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	21
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	21
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	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
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	19
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	19
Chasing two hares at once? Effect of joint institutional change for promoting commercial use of university knowledge and scientific research	19
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	19
Copyrights for the technology transfer of government software	18
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	18
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	18
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	17
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	16
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	16
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	16
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	16
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	16
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	16
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	16
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	16
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	15
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	15
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
Effects of knowledge spillovers between competitors on patent quality: what patent citations reveal about a global duopoly	14
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	14
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	14
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	14
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	14
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	13
Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	13
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	13
Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competencies and institutional voids	13
Paving the path: drivers of standardization participation at ISO	13
The birth of new HGEs: internationalization through new digital technologies	13
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	13
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	12
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	12
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	12
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	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
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	11

Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	11
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	11
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	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	10
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	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
Correction to: The influence of standards and patents on long‑term economic growth	10
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	10
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	10
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	10
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	10