OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industry and Innovation is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	33
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	29
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	27
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	24
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	23
Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil	21
Digital capability gaps in traditional industries: influencing factors and strategic responses	20
A tale of two cities: mission-oriented innovation policy in China’s green industries	19
Innovation, entrepreneurship and the academic context	18
Imitation or innovation? New ventures’ NPD strategies in emerging markets	17
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	17
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	17
Two birds with one stone: can public financial support help firms to address financial and non-financial obstacles to research and innovation?	16
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	15
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	15
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	15
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	15
Co-Worker complementarities and new firm survival	14
Opening the black box of artificial intelligence technologies: unveiling the influence exerted by type of organisations and collaborative dynamics	14
Draw to a close: inventor triad dynamics and invention quality	13
The wealth of (Open Data) nations? Open government data, country-level institutions and entrepreneurial activity	13
Family-managed firms, external sources of knowledge and innovation	12
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	11
Directionality challenges for transformative innovation policy: lessons from implementing climate goals in the process industry	11
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	10

R&D investments under financing constraints	10
Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed?	10
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	10
Penalties imposed on board chairs and corporate innovation: evidence from China	10
International breadth in coopetition and innovation performance: evidence from the Spanish biotechnology industry	9
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	9
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	9
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	9
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	9
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	9
Exploring the nexus of organisational culture and sustainability for green innovation	9
How open is innovation research? – An empirical analysis of data sharing among innovation scholars	9
Steering responsible innovation: the impact of EU REACH legislation on the novelty and toxicity of chemical inventions	9
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	9
Stepping up to the mark? Firms’ export activity and environmental innovation in 14 European countries	8
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	8
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	8
Doors and walls: physical barriers and knowledge sharing	8
Disrupting regional efficiency gaps via Industry 4.0 firm investments	8
International and domestic R&D coopetition: the influence of information redundancy on innovation performance	8
An empirical study of drivers for the adoption of logistics innovation	8
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	7
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	7
Financial resources for research and innovation in small and larger firms: Is it a case of the more you have, the more you do?	7
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	7
Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas	7
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	7
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	7
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	7
Beyond business as usual? How organisations navigate tensions between circular economy and intellectual property right strategies	7
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	7
Disentangling regional innovation capability: what really matters?	6
On the resilience of innovation systems	6
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	6
Innovation under constraints: the role of open innovation in Ghana	6
Million dollar baby -A primer on film finance practices in the U.S. movie industry	6
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	5
Correction	5
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	5
Location determinants of high-tech firms: an intra-urban approach	5
A managerial mental model to drive innovation in the context of digital transformation	5
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	5
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	5
The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music industry	5
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	5
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
Introduction to special issue on corporate and startup collaborations in an age of disruption: looking beyond the dyad	4
Skills shortage and innovation	4
Organisations’ Resources and External Shocks: Exploring Digital Innovation in Family Firms	4
Overcoming the liability of patenting in early-stage ventures with market orientation	4

Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	4
The employment implications of additive manufacturing	4
Character trait, context or… create! Innovative practices among creative entrepreneurs	4
Helping start-ups and public organisations to align: Co-producing the co-creation context in a public hospital	4
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	4
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	3
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	3
How do changing institutional logics affect innovation? The cases of Online Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in Korea	3
Do European firms obey the rules? Environmental innovativeness in light of institutional frameworks	3
R&D subsidies and firm innovation: does human capital matter?	3
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	3
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	3
Introduction to the special issue on “the twin (digital and green) transition: handling the economic and social challenges”	3
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	3
Heterogeneity of optimal balance between exploration and exploitation:the moderating roles of firm technological capability and industry alliance network position	2
Coding for intangible competitive advantage - mapping the distribution and characteristics of software-developing firms in the Swedish economy	2
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	2
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	2
An emergent grounded theory of AI-driven digital transformation: Canadian SMEs’ perspectives	2
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	2
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	2
Transitioning through a crisis: industrial customer responses to a green technology innovation scheme	2
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	2
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	2
Diffusion with generational cohorts	2
The relationship between profit-sharing schemes and R&D activities: evidence from German firm-level data	2
The role of proximity relations in the integration process into the network: an analysis of CEOs’ life narratives	2
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	2
Exploration and the termination of inventions: the role of the structure of the firm’s knowledge base and its failure experience	2
DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm	2
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	2
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	2
Productivity and HGEs: resilience and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	2
Pharmaceutical spending and early-stage innovation in EU countries	2