OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industry and Innovation is 8. 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
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
Editorial: Innovation policies and practices within innovation ecosystems	17
Aligning the design of intermediary organisations with the ecosystem	17
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
Open innovation in science: assessing the formation and function of SME-university collaborations through the proximity matrix	15
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	14
Directionality challenges for transformative innovation policy: lessons from implementing climate goals in the process industry	14
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
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	13
Heterogeneity of optimal balance between exploration and exploitation:the moderating roles of firm technological capability and industry alliance network position	12

Understanding the Heterogeneous Additionality of R&D Subsidy Programs of Different Government Levels	11
The long-term effect of research grants on the scientific output of university professors	11
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
Skills shortage and innovation	10
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
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
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
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