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

Article	Citations
Shaping knowledge ecosystems through University–industry collaboration: exploring the ‘second-order’ impact of knowledge sharing	81
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	53
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	51
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	47
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	41
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	37
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	36
Correction	35
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	35
On the resilience of innovation systems	32
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	32
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	32
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	32
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	30
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	29
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	28
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	26
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	23
Knowledge sources for Industry 4.0 technologies in European regions: the role of inward FDIs	23
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	22
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	22
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	21
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	21
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	21
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	19

Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	19
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	18
The dynamics of a global innovation system: green methanol as a marine transportation fuel	18
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	17
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	17
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	17
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	17
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	16
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	15
In and out of Pasteur’s quadrant: revisiting trends in corporate science	15
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	15
R&D investments under financing constraints	13
Empowering corporate ventures: the role of incumbents’ supplier support on internal corporate venture innovation	13
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	12
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	11
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	11
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	11
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	11
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	11
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	11
Robots and firm reshoring	11
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	10
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	10
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	10
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	10
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	10
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	10
AI in innovation research: an overview of transformers	9
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	9
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	9
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	9
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	9
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	8
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	8
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	8
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	8
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	8
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	8
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	8
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	8
Sticky partnerships or fresh starts? How failed project applications shape organisations’ collaborative behaviour in R&D networks	7
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	7
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	7
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	7
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	7
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	6
“Twin transition” and HRM practices: empirical evidence from Italian firms	6
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	6

Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	6
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	6
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	6
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	6
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	6
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	5
Reaching for the stars: analyzing market entry in the space economy	5
Diversifying impact: exploring conditions for business incubator value capture across multiple domains	5
Digitalisation and global value chain participation: evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms	5
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	5
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	5
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	5
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	5
The role of initial and gradual trust in growing and unlocking regional industrial specialisations	4
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	4
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	4
When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions	4
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth	4
What facilitates the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem-specific experimentation? A dynamic capabilities perspective	4
Re-visiting innovation ecosystem S-curves: disentangling network effects and complementarity in technology diffusion	4
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science	4
Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics	4
CSR spillover effects of corporate M&As by U.S. Acquirers	4
Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue	4
Open for business: can open science partnerships mitigate barriers to academia-industry collaboration and science-based innovation?	3
The downside of co-author success in scientific collaborations	3
Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed?	3
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	3
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	3
Exploration and the termination of inventions: the role of the structure of the firm’s knowledge base and its failure experience	3
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	3
Promote or inhibit? The influence of partner repeatedness in university-industry alliance portfolios on firm innovation performance	3
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	3
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	3
International and domestic R&D coopetition: the influence of information redundancy on innovation performance	3
Innovation under constraints: the role of open innovation in Ghana	3
How do changing institutional logics affect innovation? The cases of Online Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in Korea	3
Internal migration, diversity, and innovation: new evidence from the relaxation of migration barriers in China	3
How a firm’s knowledge base influences its external technology sourcing strategy: the case of biopharmaceutical firms	3
Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil	3
Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting	3
Unveiling the drivers of SMEs’ cooperation with universities. Do firms’ CEO characteristics matter?	3
Transitioning through a crisis: industrial customer responses to a green technology innovation scheme	3
Do China’s special economic zones increase incentives to invest in R&D?	3