OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Technology Transfer is 9. 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.)

Article	Citations
Technology transfer for sustainable rural development: evidence from homestead withdrawal with compensation in Chengdu–Chongqing	99
More relational or more digital? The synchronous and ambivalent influences of firm capabilities on value co-creation	93
Identifying technology spillovers: evidence from firm-level patents, R&D intensity, and market value	69
Innovation policies and firms’ productivity: the Italian Industry 4.0 Plan for digital transformation	55
An economic analysis of standard reference materials	39
Patent-based indicators for predicting patent commercialization: a study of the diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations	38
The role of competition on equity crowdfunding	37
How firms use coordination activities in university–industry collaboration: adjusting to or steering a research center?	37
Unpacking technology transfer coverage: a quantitative study of the Italian press	36
The impact of digitalization and virtualization on technology transfer in strategic collaborative partnerships	36
Evaluating the resource orchestration of evolving disruptive technologies within ecosystem-based business models: evidence from the Indian railways	35
Automation and related technologies: a mapping of the new knowledge base	33
Holistic ecosystems for enhancing innovative collaborations in university–industry consortia	32
Understanding the drivers of patent performance of University Science Parks in Turkey	32
The case of the interrupting funder: dynamic effects of R&D funding and patenting in U.S. universities	29
Understanding university technicians’ role in creating knowledge exchange routines and capabilities: a research agenda	28
Private entrepreneurial support organizations in European fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	27
Exploring Department of the Navy SBIR Phase III awards and corresponding public sector commercialization success factors	26
The role of non-economic goals in academic spin-offs	26
Turning creative ideas into successful innovations: differential effects of network structure for radical and incremental innovation	25
Academic engagement with industry: the role of research quality and experience	24
Co-evolution patterns of university patenting and technological specialization in European regions	24
The role of the academic relations of former graduate students in university-firm collaboration	24
An explorative study of how benefit corporation business incubators can support sustainable entrepreneurial development: evidence from Italy	24
Environmental innovation and R&D collaborations: Firm decisions in the innovation efficiency context	24

“Balanced” or “polarized” entrepreneurial ecosystem types? Evidence from Italy	23
Strategic entrepreneurial choice between competing crowdfunding platforms	22
Task complementarity in academic work: a study of the relationship between research, education and third mission tasks among university professors	22
Analysis of factors influencing attitude and intention to use electric vehicles for a sustainable future	22
Still collaborating? Strengthening intellectual property protection and collaborative innovation choice for enterprises	21
Innovation intermediaries for university-industry R&D collaboration: evidence from science parks in Thailand	21
Is there a public innovation gap? Evidence from technology transfer	21
Tackling digital transformation strategy: how it affects firm innovation and organizational effectiveness	20
Impact of technology transfer offices on university spin-off bankruptcy	19
Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	19
A game theory analysis of regional innovation ecosystems	18
Gender stereotypes in equity crowdfunding: the effect of gender bias on the interpretation of quality signals	18
Academic artists’ engagement and commercialisation	18
Development burdens: state contact centers, administrative burden, and economic development policy	18
Technological diversification, technology portfolio properties, and R&D productivity	18
The link between technical knowledge transfer in alliances and resource efficiency: ambidexterity in development of R&D and appropriation capabilities	17
Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success	17
Biomedical entrepreneurship in U.S. regions	17
Supply chain constraints and research spending: an international investigation	16
Corporate entrepreneurship strategy in universities: emerging leadership in austerity time	16
A micro-level study of research impact and motivational diversity	16
Noneconomic public value creation by private ventures: scale development and empirical validation in the academic entrepreneurship context	15
Quality of research as source and signal: revisiting the valorization process beyond substitution vs complementarity	15
Examining the impact of e-leadership on strategic innovation at work: a moderated-mediation model	15
The entrepreneurial university: strategies, processes, and competing goals	15
The role of leading companies in artificial intelligence applications	14
How do competitors and partners shape corporate R&D investments	14
TFP, ICT and absorptive capacities: micro-level evidence from Colombia	13
Entrepreneurial support organizations in sustainable knowledge-driven ecosystems	13
Migrant inventors as agents of technological change	13
The Vietnamese entrepreneurship paradox: how can entrepreneurs thrive without political and economic freedom?	13
The effect of technological relatedness on firm sales evolution through external knowledge sourcing	13
An inquiry into the linkages between entrepreneurial perspectives and sustainable value creation in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship	13
Schumpeterian entrepreneurial digital identity and funding from venture capital firms	13
Drivers of academic engagement in public–private research collaboration: an empirical study	13
Paving the path: drivers of standardization participation at ISO	12
Entrepreneurial growth in digital business ecosystems: an integrated framework blending the knowledge-based view of the firm and business ecosystems	12
Technological relatedness and industrial transformation:	12
Impact of initial business model on the growth trajectory of new technology-based firms: a path dependency perspective	12
MSME technology adoption, entrepreneurial mindset and value creation: a configurational approach	12
Managerial power and ambidextrous innovation: the moderating role of absorptive capacity and resource slack	11
Acknowledging diversity in knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship: assessing the Brazilian small business innovation research	11
Entrepreneurial ecosystems governance: critical perspectives and steps forward	11
Public biofoundries as innovation intermediaries: the integration of translation, sustainability, and responsibility	11
The digital commercial revolution: U.S. business sales and the entrepreneurial exploitation of information and communications technology	11
Conceptualising the entrepreneurial university: the stakeholder approach	11
New technology transfer metrics for the National Institute of Standards and Technology	11
University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities	11
Is higher education more important for firms than research? Disentangling university spillovers	11
More digitalization does not always imply more technology transfer: an analysis within the horizon Europe strategy	11

Strategic legislation for the promotion of university–industry collaborations: a case study of Taiwan	11
Leveraging SMEs technologies adoption in the Covid-19 pandemic: a case study on Twitter-based user-generated content	11
The role of university leaders’ overseas experience in facilitating technology transfer	10
COVID-19 bust, policy response, and rebound: equity crowdfunding and P2P versus banks	10
Does the innovative city pilot policy improve university–industry collaborations in China?	10
Knowledge properties and the creative response in the global economy: European evidence for the years 1990–2016	10
Publisher Correction: Entrepreneurial orientation as a theory of new value creation	10
Innovative entrepreneurship in emerging and developing economies: the effects of entrepreneurial competencies and institutional voids	10
The effects of the limited exhaustibility of knowledge on firm size and the direction of technological change	9
Students as scientists’ co-pilots at the onset of technology transfer: a two-way learning process	9
The co-evolution of ecosystem and university’s roles: a focus on the integration of technologies and cultural heritage	9
The spread of academic invention: a nationwide case study on French data (1995–2012)	9
The impact of entrepreneurial overconfidence on incubator effectiveness	9
Advancing industrial wastewater treatment through comprehensive evaluation and innovative technology: a G1-entropy improved TOPSIS model approach	9
Does the intensity of use of social media influence the economic sustainability of the university?	9
The role of relatedness and strategic linkages between domestic and MNE sectors in regional branching and resilience	9