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 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
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	27
On the resilience of innovation systems	27
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	26
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
Skills shortage and innovation	25
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	25
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	23
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	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

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
Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	15
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	15
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
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
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
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
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
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	10
Robots and firm reshoring	10
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
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	9
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
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
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