OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Technology Transfer is 10. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	155
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	102
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	74
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	50
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	50
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	50
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	47
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	44
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	43
Knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurial ecosystems and the geography of high growth firms redux	40
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	36
The KSTE + I approach and the advent of AI technologies: evidence from the European regions	35
(Re)envisioning the role of technology transfer intermediaries in socio-technical transition	35
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	34
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	33
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	32
Venture capital and technology commercialization: evidence from China	32
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	32
Enhancing knowledge spillover of innovation through artificial intelligence: an empirical investigation	32
Reverse knowledge spillover theory of public sector entrepreneurship	31
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	30
Academic entrepreneurship in the humanities and social sciences: a systematic literature review and research agenda	30
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	29
A configurational exploration of how organizational characteristics and multidimensional proximities influence university-industry collaborations	29
Network variance of scientific team and knowledge creation: a network embeddedness perspective	28

Do not judge a business idea by its cover: The relation between topics in business ideas and incorporation probability	28
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	25
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	25
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	24
The costs of collaborative innovation	23
Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	23
Building middle managers’ managerial dynamic capabilities through collaborations: exploring the microfoundations in a university–industry consortium	22
The determinants of European universities patenting and co-patenting with companies	21
Integrating philosophy and psychology to enhance creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship: the W.O.M.B. model	21
AI and medical imaging technology: evolution, impacts, and economic insights	21
Collaborative research in healthcare: uncovering the impact of industry collaboration on the service innovativeness of university hospitals	21
University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development	21
Publisher Correction: Contrasting patterns and dynamics of patent offshoring in European regions	21
Collaborative innovation network embeddedness and a firm’s technological impact: Does prior networking experience matter?	21
Strategy and business model development for business incubators: a systematic literature review and framework	20
The geography of the continuum of entrepreneurship activities—a first glance based on German data	20
An empirical investigation into UK university–industry collaboration: the development of an impact framework	20
The performance effects of corporate venture capital: a meta-analysis	20
Too many or too few Standards Setters? Evidence from the Performance of Firms engaged in Standardization	19
Academic intrapreneurship for health care innovation: the importance of influence, perception, and time management in knowledge commercialization at a University’s Medical Centre	19
Shaping regional futures: how education and career imprints of officials drive the rise of emerging industries	18
Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland	18
The creation of academic spin-offs: University-Business Collaboration matters	18
Copyrights for the technology transfer of government software	18
Patenting uncertainty and its impact on innovation: evidence from the United States	18
Publisher Correction: What semantic analysis can tell us about long term trends in the global STI policy agenda	17
How does regulatory uncertainty shape the innovation process? Evidence from the case of nanomedicine	17
Engagement of family executive members in intrapreneurship in the family business	17
Venture creation patterns in academic entrepreneurship: the role of founder motivations	17
Foundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems configurations	17
Estimating the value of satellite-derived measurements of evapotranspiration to inform irrigation scheduling in California almond orchards	17
Entrepreneurial universities and the third mission paradigm shift from economic performance to impact entrepreneurship: Germany’s EXIST program and ESG orientation	17
University-industry collaborations: an international perspective	16
Beyond ambidexterity: universities and their changing roles in driving regional development in challenging times	16
The power of knowledge: unraveling the influence of knowledge characteristics on inter-firm patent transfers	16
The evolution of university technology transfer research: a text mining approach	16
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	16
Does the fusion of incubatees’ entrepreneurial skills with the incubator’s services and facilities boost the performance of technology business incubators?	16
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	16
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	15
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	15
A knowledge spillover narrative theory of entrepreneurship	15
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	15
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	15
A thematic review of 45 years of The Journal of Technology Transfer	14
Heterogeneous university research and firm R&D location decisions: research orientation, academic quality, and investment type	14
Many are called, few are chosen: the role of science in drug development decisions	14
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	14
A novel method to identify potential collaborators with a patent-based knowledge graph	14
Open disclosure using invention pledges: a case study of IBM	14

Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	13
The key to knowledge: evaluating the role of gatekeepers on regional inventive performance	12
Beyond standard practice: Tailoring technology transfer practices through convergent diagramming	12
Innovation intermediaries: a review, bibliometric analysis, and research agenda	12
From high-tech clusters to open innovation ecosystems: a systematic literature review of the relationship between science and technology parks and universities	12
Identifying the emergence of academic entrepreneurship within the technology transfer literature	11
Technology transfer and innovation efficiency in a large emerging economy: an integrative perspective of absorptive capacity and the technology ladder	11
How does R&D collaboration shape the patent quality of universities?	11
Developing a knowledge ecosystem for large-scale research infrastructure	11
Spatio-temporal evolution, country differences and the role of proximity: an investigation of international patenting	11
Blockchain unlocking collaborative opportunities for environmental sustainability through innovation intermediaries	11
Entrepreneurial gendered ambidexterity in Belarusian SMEs	11
Transforming academic knowledge into industrial innovation: the double-edged sword of learning from universities	11
Star help and knowledge transfer: an event study analysis of star interactions observed from acknowledgement texts	11
Local industrial cohesion as a diffusion mechanism for incremental knowledge: evidence from business and economic indicators in U.S. Counties	11
The African entrepreneurial ecosystem index: conceptual, methodological and empirical flaws and the way forward	11
Technology transfer as an enabler for the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurial universities	11
Identifying the implementation effect of technology transfer policy using system dynamics: a case study in Liaoning, China	11
Does R&D cooperation with competitors cause firms to invest in R&D more intensively? evidence from Korean manufacturing firms	10
Do weak institutions undermine global innovation production efficiency?	10
Entrepreneurship and artificial intelligence: a bibliometric analysis	10
Awareness of artificial intelligence: diffusion of AI versus ChatGPT information with implications for entrepreneurship	10
When the marketplace comes to the research laboratory: technology transfer efficiency of innovation-driven publicly funded research centers	10
Design of a living lab for autonomous driving: an investigation under the lens of the triple helix model	10
Entrepreneurial finance in Europe and the Russian war against Ukraine	10