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Papers

(The median citation count of R & D Management is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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Government sponsorship and innovation: the Gazelle Plan in China's Zhongguancun Science Park	120
The SME R&D intensity and product innovation relationship: the mediating role of quality management in the context of a developing country	55
Untangling the Relationship Between Technology Portfolio Reconfiguration and Firm Performance: Detrimental or Beneficial?	42
Dare to Sell! Impacts of “Make and/or Buy” Decision Strategies on Outbound Open Innovation	40
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Open innovation ecosystem organizing from a process view: a longitudinal study in the making of an innovation hub	39
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Unveiling the complex U‐shaped relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and exploratory/exploitative innovations: strategic planning as a moderator	30
Open social innovation in response to grand challenges: promotor influence as change agent	30
Characteristics and factors for the innovation performance of New R&D Institutes at start‐up stages: an exploratory study from China	27
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Frontiers in Social Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems. By NeilMalhotra, Harvard Business Review Press: Boston, 2022, IS	22
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Managing business model innovation uncertainties in 5G technology: a future‐oriented sensemaking perspective	19
The effects of entrepreneurial ecosystems, knowledge management capabilities, and knowledge spillovers on international open innovation	18
Creative ambivalence: implementing need‐solution pairs in household 3D printing	18
IT as a driver of R&D processes and strategic renewal	17
Effect of agglomeration on firms’ research and development investment: a U‐shaped relationship	17
Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals, Partners and Technologies. Elizabeth J.Altman, DavidKiron, JeffSchwartz, and RobinJones. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, London, UK, 2023, ISBN 9780262047	17
Ecosystem‐Level Business Model Alignment and Sensemaking	17
Emergence of communities through interdependent dynamics of physical, cognitive and virtual contexts: the case of collaborative spaces	16
Planting the Seeds of Innovation: Established Companies' Startup Cooperation Capability, Its Mechanisms, and Innovation Outcomes	16

Places and spaces of collaborative R&D and innovation: navigating the role of physical and virtual contexts	16
Society and Technology – Opportunities and Challenges. Edited by EwaLechman and MagdalenaPopowska. Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology. Routledge: New York, 2021, ISBN	16
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Gender, occupational diversity of R&D teams and patents generation: an application to Spanish firms	16
R&D investments in emerging market firms: the role of institutional investors and board interlocks	15
The contribution of Design Thinking to the R of R&D in technological innovation	15
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Limits of open innovation during the organizational change: a case study of a Partner Campus	15
R&D subsidies, novelty of firm innovation and industrial technological complexity: the knowledge recombinant view	15
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The role of innovative work behavior and organizational support for business model innovation	14
50+ years of R&D Management: a retrospective synthesis and new research trajectories	14
Entrepreneurial Bricolage and Disruptive Innovation: The Joint Effect of Learning From Failure and Institutional voids	13
Collaboration of corporates with coworking spaces: different pathways to develop innovation capabilities	13
Managing Data Sovereignty: An Organizational Competence for Successful Open Value Creation	13
Unlocking the Potential of Big Data: Establishing System Trust Through Open Innovation Ecosystems	13
The role of makerspaces in innovation processes: an exploratory study	12
Harnessing the innovative potential of start‐ups for corporate entrepreneurship in incumbent firms: a study of asymmetric buyer–supplier relationships	12
From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems	12
The top‐down pattern of social innovation and social entrepreneurship. Bricolage and agility in response to COVID‐19: cases from China	11
Why to be a maker? Personal values as motivational goals	11
Management and marketing innovations: the role of management practices, international learning, and impacts on innovation performance	11
Innovation contests: attracting new solvers and new high‐quality solutions	11
Multinational R&D decentralization in emerging markets: subsidiary evolution, autonomy, and influence in global innovation	11
Exploring the dynamics of openness and formal appropriability and its impact on innovation performance in start‐ups	10
Innovation and Collaboration in the Digital Era: The Role of Emotional Intelligence for Innovation Leadership and Collaborative InnovationJaraPascual, De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston, 2021, ISBN‐13 978‐311	9
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Adaptability among inbound tour operators in a disrupted business environment	8
The role of status diversity in the innovative performance of R&D teams	8
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Facilitating Individual Innovation from the Perspective of Social Network Ties: A Fuzzy‐Set QCA Approach	7
The dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems: an empirical investigation	7
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Non‐R&D Subsidies and Digital Product Innovation in China	6
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Conflict and performance in research teams: how principal investigator can influence this relationship	6
R&D Management Under Disruption and Uncertainty: An Open Innovation Perspective	6
Evaluating internal and external knowledge sources in firm innovation and productivity: an industry perspective	6
R&D employee tenure in MNC subsidiaries: the role of institutional distance and experience	6
Boundary organisations in regional innovation systems: traversing knowledge boundaries for industry 4.0 regional transformations	6
Research, patents, and IPO valuation under the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act of 2002	5
R&D management at a time of crisis: what are we learning from the initial response to the COVID‐19 pandemic?	5
Commonalities and specificities of dynamic capabilities: a mixed methods study of UK high‐tech SMEs	5
The innovation antecedents behind the servitization–performance relationship	5
University knowledge spillovers and innovation of hidden champions: evidence from Italy	5
Knowledge‐brokering activities as enactors of innovative constructive deviance in open R&D projects	5
Key aspects of establishing research, knowledge, and innovation‐based hubs as part of the local innovation ecosystem	5

How competitive intensity drives firms to speed up new product development? The mediating effect of knowledge integration and the moderating effect of market orientation	5
Using a Standard‐Based Innovation Management System Approach—A Catalyst for Innovation Legitimacy?	5
Engaging with startups through corporate accelerators: the case of H‐FARM's White Label Accelerator	5
The microfoundations of mission‐led interdisciplinary collaborations: The role of design principles	5
The relationship between digital technologies and the circular economy: a systematic literature review and a research agenda	5
How firms use inbound Open Innovation practices over time: evidence from an exploratory multiple case study analysis	5
Product and Process Innovation: Evaluating Supplier Diversity and Geographic Proximity in Importing by Non‐MNEs	5
How does information technology capabilities affect business sustainability? The roles of ambidextrous innovation and data‐driven culture	4
Start‐ups' use of knowledge spillovers for product innovation: the influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems and virtual platforms	4
Who has an R&D investment opportunity? Who goes ahead? How much do they invest?	4
When is R&D beneficial for family firms? The concurrent roles of CSR and economic conditions	4
Temporary business model innovation – SMEs’ innovation response to the Covid‐19 crisis	4
Roles of big data analytics and organizational culture in developing innovation capabilities: a hybrid PLS‐fsQCA approach	4
Innovation search: the role of innovation intermediaries in the search process	4
Motivating R&D team creativity: the social cognitive effect of external developmental feedback and internal goal interdependence	4
Assessing the drivers and capabilities for faster product launch: a scale for time‐to‐market reduction in start‐ups	4
Knowledge spillovers or R&D collaboration? Understanding the role of external knowledge for firm innovation	4
Ambidexterity within a multinational context: how organisations can leverage explorative and exploitative reverse innovation	4
Policy Imprints: The Impact of National Innovation Policy in Firms' Founding Period on Subsequent Innovation Strategies	4
Business models for the sharing economy: charting the multidisciplinary research field	4
The use of social media in different phases of the new product development process: a systematic literature review	4
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Governance mechanisms implementation in the evolution of digital platforms: a case study of the Internet of Things platform	3
The interplay between the contextual conditions and the advancement of the technological maturity in inter‐organisational collaborative R&D projects: a qualitative study	3
Successful Crowdfunding by Lead Investors: The Role of Social Capital	3
Open innovation for institutional entrepreneurship: how incumbents induce institutional change to advance autonomous driving	3
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The downsides of specialization: the impact of business incubator's specialization on startups' R&D efficiency and venture capital financing	3
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Technological disruption and patent activities: adoption of robots by Chinese manufacturing firms	3
Environmental scanning, resource orchestration, and disruptive innovation	3
How can open innovation support SMEs in the adoption of I4.0 technologies? An empirical analysis	3
Determinants of competitive advantage: The roles of innovation orientation, fuzzy front end, and internal competition	3
How top management team social status impacts innovation	3
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The effects of family involvement on proactive R&D management capability: detrimental or beneficial?	2
Digitalization and employment in Europe: the role of firm's size and the complementarity of R&D	2
Unearthing Role Dynamics Within Innovation Ecosystem Emergence: A Case Study of Data‐Driven Circularity	2
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What “V” of the big data influence SMEs' open innovation breadth and depth? An empirical analysis	2
The rise of open innovation in Chinese academia: a systematic review of the literature	2
Does constructive feedback improve idea quality in idea contests? Exploring the role of hierarchy and feedback overlap	2
Disrupt through digital: a study on the challenges faced when digitalizing R&D	2
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Cultural distance and the permanence of acquired CEOs in cross‐border high‐tech acquisitions: combining the acquirer's and CEO's perspectives	2
Nonlinear spatial innovation spillovers and regional open innovation: evidence from China	2
How does the space influence Living Labs? Evidence from two automotive experiences	2
Design principles of hybrid approaches in new product development: a systematic literature review	2
Market dominance, R&D grant funding, and innovation outcomes	2
Crowdsourcing in patent examination: overcoming patent examiners' local search bias	2
Pay more, earn more: The shared value approach and contingence of high‐tech industry	2
Pursuing opportunities in distance: the determinants of overseas R&D by Chinese multinationals	1
The impact of the timing of patent allowance on technology licensing performance: evidence from university invention commercialization	1
Rapid setup and management of medical device design and manufacturing consortia: experiences from the COVID‐19 crisis in the UK	1
Servitization in global markets: role alignment in global service networks for advanced service provision	1
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Thematic evolution, emerging trends for sharing economy business model research, and future research directions in the post‐COVID‐19 era	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on the New Silk Road of Innovation: R&D Networks, Knowledge Diffusions, and Open Innovation	1
The Automation Advantage: Embrace the Future of Productivity and Improve Speed, Quality, and Customer Experience Through AI. By BhaskarGhosh, RajendraPrasad, and GayathriPallail. McGra	1
Creativity and Innovation: Theory, Research, and Practice. 2nd edBy Jonathan A.Plucker (ed.), New York: Routledge, 2022. 346 pp. £42.39 (paperback). ISBN‐978‐1‐64632‐191‐9	1
Negative performance feedback, CEO tenure, and punctuated equilibrium innovation	1
Organizational support for digital transformation in the metaverse: a contingent pathway from user experience to digitalization resistance	1
Inter‐organizational cooperation, financial constraints, and firm's innovation: evidence from five African countries	1
Political Connection and Dynamic Adjustment in R&D Investment: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Firms	1
Grand challenges, corporate legitimacy, and community integration: an integrative smart technology model	1
Evolutionary Ideas: Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges. By SamTatam, Harriman House Publishing: Hampshire, 2022, ISBN 978‐0‐85719‐787‐0, paperback, £9.99, pp. 240.	1
How Focal Firms Navigate Resource Complementarity Uncertainty of Innovation Ecosystems in Emerging Economies	1
R&D employee training, the stock of technological knowledge, and R&D productivity	1
Business Design Thinking and Doing: Frameworks, Strategies and Techniques for Sustainable Innovation. By Angèle M.Beausoleil, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN 978‐3‐03086‐488‐0, paper	1
Toward a sustainable sharing economy with business model innovations in the clothing industry	1
The role of cross‐sector partnerships in the dynamics between places and innovation ecosystems	1
Ecosystem effectuation: creating new value through open innovation during a pandemic	1