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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring regional innovation ecosystems: an empirical study in China	40
The evolution of knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems: co-evolving entrepreneurial activity and innovation policy in the West Swedish maritime system	39
A strategic alignment framework for the entrepreneurial university	33
Organisations’ Resources and External Shocks: Exploring Digital Innovation in Family Firms	29
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	25
Location determinants of high-tech firms: an intra-urban approach	24
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	23
Temporary organisations in the creation of dynamic capabilities: effects of temporariness on innovative capacity and strategic flexibility	22
Local innovation ecosystem: structure and impact on adaptive capacity of firms	21
A managerial mental model to drive innovation in the context of digital transformation	20
Editorial: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems	17
Aligning the design of intermediary organisations with the ecosystem	17
Knowledge exchange and innovation in clusters: a dynamic social network analysis	17
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	17
R&D subsidies and firm innovation: does human capital matter?	17
Open innovation in science: assessing the formation and function of SME-university collaborations through the proximity matrix	15
Disentangling regional innovation capability: what really matters?	15
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	15
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	15
Directionality challenges for transformative innovation policy: lessons from implementing climate goals in the process industry	14
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	14
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	13
Firms and innovation in the new industrial paradigm of the digital transformation	13
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	13
Heterogeneity of optimal balance between exploration and exploitation:the moderating roles of firm technological capability and industry alliance network position	12

The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors	11
Understanding the Heterogeneous Additionality of R&D Subsidy Programs of Different Government Levels	11
Skills shortage and innovation	10
Introduction to the special issue on “the twin (digital and green) transition: handling the economic and social challenges”	10
Character trait, context or… create! Innovative practices among creative entrepreneurs	10
The wealth of (Open Data) nations? Open government data, country-level institutions and entrepreneurial activity	10
Cast apart by the elites: how status influences assortative matching in industrial clusters	9
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	9
Stepping up to the mark? Firms’ export activity and environmental innovation in 14 European countries	9
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth	9
Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland	9
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	9
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	9
Market orientation and innovation behaviour: how do service employees benefit from their uniplex and multiplex intrafirm network centrality?	9
Spill over or Spill out? – A multilevel analysis of the cluster and firm performance relationship	9
Financial resources for research and innovation in small and larger firms: Is it a case of the more you have, the more you do?	9
The role of intangibles in firm-level productivity – evidence from Germany	9
Entrepreneurship, complexity and the emergent order in the techno-economic scenario of the twenty-first century. Evidence from a field study in Tuscany	8
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	8
Family-managed firms, external sources of knowledge and innovation	8
PhD trained employees and firms’ transitions to upstream R&D activities	8
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	8
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	8
Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting	8
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	8
How open is innovation research? – An empirical analysis of data sharing among innovation scholars	8
How industry projects can stimulate academic engagement: an experimental study among U.S. engineering professors	7
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	7
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	7
Managing start-up – incumbent digital solution co-creation: a four-phase process for intermediation in innovative contexts	7
The employment implications of additive manufacturing	7
On the resilience of innovation systems	7
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	7
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	7
Foreign vs. domestic multinationals in R&D linkage strategies	7
Understanding the process of knowledge accumulation and entrepreneurial learning in startups	7
CEO characteristics and the Doing-Using-Interacting mode of innovation: a new upper echelons perspective	6
DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm	6
Unlocking innovation for net zero: constraints, enablers, and firm-level transition strategies	6
Continuous innovation failure, top management team relational capital and the overseas R&D activities of companies in emerging economies	6
The role of initial and gradual trust in growing and unlocking regional industrial specialisations	6
An emergent grounded theory of AI-driven digital transformation: Canadian SMEs’ perspectives	6
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	5
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	5
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	5
The role of proximity relations in the integration process into the network: an analysis of CEOs’ life narratives	5
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	5
Getting along with frenemies: enhancing multi-competitor coopetition governance through artificial intelligence and blockchain	5
Do European firms obey the rules? Environmental innovativeness in light of institutional frameworks	5
Asbestos, leaded petrol, and other aberrations: comparing countries’ regulatory responses to disapproved products and technologies	5

Automated governance mechanisms in digital labour platforms: how Uber nudges and sludges its drivers	5
The architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems	5
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	4
The puzzle of sharing scientific data	4
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
The search for hypercompetition: evidence from a Nordic market study	4
Disrupting regional efficiency gaps via Industry 4.0 firm investments	4
When opposites attract: a review and synthesis of corporate-startup collaboration	4
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	4
Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas	4
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	4
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	4
Pharmaceutical spending and early-stage innovation in EU countries	4
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	4
An empirical study of drivers for the adoption of logistics innovation	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science	3
Robots, skills and temporary jobs: evidence from six European countries	3
The leading role of support organisations in cluster networks of developing countries	3
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	3
Corporate Venture Capital and Startup Outcomes: The Roles of Investment Timing and Multiple Corporate Investors	3
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	3
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	3
Crisis-induced innovation and crisis-induced innovators	3
How a firm’s knowledge base influences its external technology sourcing strategy: the case of biopharmaceutical firms	3
The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music industry	3