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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	102
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	74
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	61
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	59
Shaping knowledge ecosystems through University–industry collaboration: exploring the ‘second-order’ impact of knowledge sharing	45
Workforce size adaptation under uncertainty: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	45
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	42
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	41
Correction	38
On the resilience of innovation systems	37
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	37
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	37
Knowledge work and occupational stress	36
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	35
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	32
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	30
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	28
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	27
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	26
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	25
Knowledge sources for Industry 4.0 technologies in European regions: the role of inward FDIs	24
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	22
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	22
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	22
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	22

Opening the gates: how public data reduces entry barriers and fuels AI entrepreneurship activity in China	21
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	21
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	19
The dynamics of a global innovation system: green methanol as a marine transportation fuel	18
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	18
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	16
Technological complexity and global capabilities in SMEs. A survey in an Italian industrial region	16
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	15
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	15
In and out of Pasteur’s quadrant: revisiting trends in corporate science	14
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	14
Empowering corporate ventures: the role of incumbents’ supplier support on internal corporate venture innovation	14
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	13
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	13
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	12
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	12
Government funding and firms’ non-funded innovation trajectory	12
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	12
Mapping critical raw materials in green technologies	12
When digital meets green: digital and circular practices among European start-ups and scale-ups	12
R&D investments under financing constraints	12
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	12
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	11
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	11
Knowing brown and inventing Green? A conversation on award-winning research into the automotive transition	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	11
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	11
Robots and firm reshoring	11
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	10
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	10
Do place-based policies shape the industrial diversification path in underdeveloped cities? Evidence from China’s development zone policy	10
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	9
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	9
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	9
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	9
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	8
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	8
Tax incentives and intra-group shifting of R&D activities	8
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	8
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	8
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	7
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	7
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	7
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	7
AI in innovation research: an overview of transformers	6
AI product innovation and occupational exposure: automation and augmentation in commercial AI deployments	6
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	6
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	6

Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	6
Sticky partnerships or fresh starts? How failed project applications shape organisations’ collaborative behaviour in R&D networks	6
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	6
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	6
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	6
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	6
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	6
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	6
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	6
Exploring agency–structure dynamics in green path development: evidence from the emerging battery industries in Arendal and Gothenburg	5
Digitalisation and global value chain participation: evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms	5
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	5
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	5
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	5
Reaching for the stars: analyzing market entry in the space economy	5
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	5
Innovation and internationalisation in the digital era: new theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence	5
“Twin transition” and HRM practices: empirical evidence from Italian firms	5
Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics	4
What facilitates the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem-specific experimentation? A dynamic capabilities perspective	4
Too much of a good thing? Digitalisation breadth, performance and organisational skills	4
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	4
Diversifying impact: exploring conditions for business incubator value capture across multiple domains	4
Re-visiting innovation ecosystem S-curves: disentangling network effects and complementarity in technology diffusion	4
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
Innovation ecosystems for a Circular Economy	4
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	4
When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions	4
Unveiling the global trade network of digital production technologies: a new product classification	4
Reading from the same page: how does industry-specific information disclosure affect green innovation in heavily polluting firms?	4
Open for business: can open science partnerships mitigate barriers to academia-industry collaboration and science-based innovation?	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
Internal migration, diversity, and innovation: new evidence from the relaxation of migration barriers in China	3
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	3
Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting	3
Promote or inhibit? The influence of partner repeatedness in university-industry alliance portfolios on firm innovation performance	3
The downside of co-author success in scientific collaborations	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
Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil	3
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	3
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	3
CSR spillover effects of corporate M&As by U.S. Acquirers	3
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions	3
How a firm’s knowledge base influences its external technology sourcing strategy: the case of biopharmaceutical firms	3
Forging sustainable transitions: a systematic literature review on sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems	3
Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed?	3
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	3