OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industry and Innovation is 3. 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
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	47
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	42
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	36
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	32
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	31
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	29
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	26
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	26
On the resilience of innovation systems	25
Correction	24
Location determinants of high-tech firms: an intra-urban approach	24
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	22
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	22
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	21
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	21
Skills shortage and innovation	21
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	21
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	20
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	19
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	19
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	18
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	18
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	16
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	15
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	15

Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	14
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	14
Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	14
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	13
Market orientation and innovation behaviour: how do service employees benefit from their uniplex and multiplex intrafirm network centrality?	13
On the sudden rise of Dutch science at the end of the nineteenth century: a core-periphery approach	13
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	13
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	13
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	13
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	13
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	12
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	12
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	12
R&D investments under financing constraints	12
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	12
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	12
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	11
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	11
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	11
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	10
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	10
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	9
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	9
Do European firms obey the rules? Environmental innovativeness in light of institutional frameworks	9
Robots and firm reshoring	9
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	9
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	9
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	9
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	8
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	8
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	8
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	7
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	7
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	7
The relationship between profit-sharing schemes and R&D activities: evidence from German firm-level data	7
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	7
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	7
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	7
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	7
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	7
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	6
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	6
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	6
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	6
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	6
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	5
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	5
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	5
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	5
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	5

Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	5
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	5
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	5
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	4
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	4
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	4
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	4
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	4
Digitalisation and global value chain participation: evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms	4
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	4
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	4
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	4
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	4
Reaching for the stars: analyzing market entry in the space economy	4
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	4
What facilitates the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem-specific experimentation? A dynamic capabilities perspective	4
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	4
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	4
Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics	3
CSR spillover effects of corporate M&As by U.S. Acquirers	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science	3
Promote or inhibit? The influence of partner repeatedness in university-industry alliance portfolios on firm innovation performance	3
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth	3
Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue	3
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions	3
When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions	3
The role of initial and gradual trust in growing and unlocking regional industrial specialisations	3
Open innovation in science: assessing the formation and function of SME-university collaborations through the proximity matrix	3
How a firm’s knowledge base influences its external technology sourcing strategy: the case of biopharmaceutical firms	3
R&D policy instrument mix sequencing: evaluating the impact of receiving R&D grants and R&D tax credits over time on firm-level R&D	3