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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	62
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	46
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	42
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	39
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	35
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	34
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	29
Correction	28
On the resilience of innovation systems	27
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	27
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	26
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	26
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	26
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	25
Skills shortage and innovation	25
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	23
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	23
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	22
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	22
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	21
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	20
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	20
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	19
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	17
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	17

Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	15
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	15
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	15
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	15
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	14
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	14
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	14
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	14
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	14
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	14
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	13
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	13
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	13
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	13
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	13
R&D investments under financing constraints	13
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	12
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	11
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	10
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	10
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	10
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	10
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	10
Robots and firm reshoring	10
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	9
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	9
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	9
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	9
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	8
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	8
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	8
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	8
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	8
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	8
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	8
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	8
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	7
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	7
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	7
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	7
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	7
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	7
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	7
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	7
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	7
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	6
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	6
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	6
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	6
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	6

Sticky partnerships or fresh starts? How failed project applications shape organisations’ collaborative behaviour in R&D networks	6
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	6
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	6
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	6
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	6
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	6
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	6
“Twin transition” and HRM practices: empirical evidence from Italian firms	6
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	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
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	5
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	5
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
Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue	4
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions	4
CSR spillover effects of corporate M&As by U.S. Acquirers	4
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
Open innovation in science: assessing the formation and function of SME-university collaborations through the proximity matrix	4
Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics	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
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	4
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth	4
The role of initial and gradual trust in growing and unlocking regional industrial specialisations	4
What facilitates the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem-specific experimentation? A dynamic capabilities perspective	4
Promote or inhibit? The influence of partner repeatedness in university-industry alliance portfolios on firm innovation performance	3
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	3
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	3
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science	3
Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting	3
Open for business: can open science partnerships mitigate barriers to academia-industry collaboration and science-based innovation?	3
Family-managed firms, external sources of knowledge and innovation	3
International and domestic R&D coopetition: the influence of information redundancy on innovation performance	3
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	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
Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed?	3
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	3
Unveiling the drivers of SMEs’ cooperation with universities. Do firms’ CEO characteristics matter?	3
When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions	3