OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industry and Innovation is 2. 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
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	43
A debate: does Lean Startup represent a giant leap?	41
The wealth of (Open Data) nations? Open government data, country-level institutions and entrepreneurial activity	36
Digital capability gaps in traditional industries: influencing factors and strategic responses	28
Two birds with one stone: can public financial support help firms to address financial and non-financial obstacles to research and innovation?	27
Imitation or innovation? New ventures’ NPD strategies in emerging markets	27
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	25
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	24
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	23
Opening the black box of artificial intelligence technologies: unveiling the influence exerted by type of organisations and collaborative dynamics	21
A tale of two cities: mission-oriented innovation policy in China’s green industries	21
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	21
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	20
Co-Worker complementarities and new firm survival	20
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	20
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	19
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	19
Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil	19
R&D investments under financing constraints	18
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	17
Family-managed firms, external sources of knowledge and innovation	17
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	15
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	15
Corporation–start-up collaboration: how can the tensions stemming from asymmetries be managed?	14
Penalties imposed on board chairs and corporate innovation: evidence from China	14

How open is innovation research? – An empirical analysis of data sharing among innovation scholars	13
Steering responsible innovation: the impact of EU REACH legislation on the novelty and toxicity of chemical inventions	13
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	13
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	13
Exploring the nexus of organisational culture and sustainability for green innovation	13
International breadth in coopetition and innovation performance: evidence from the Spanish biotechnology industry	13
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	12
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	12
Directionality challenges for transformative innovation policy: lessons from implementing climate goals in the process industry	12
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	11
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	11
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	11
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	10
Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	10
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	9
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	9
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	9
International and domestic R&D coopetition: the influence of information redundancy on innovation performance	9
Draw to a close: inventor triad dynamics and invention quality	9
Skill endowment, routinisation and digital technologies: evidence from U.S. Metropolitan Areas	9
An empirical study of drivers for the adoption of logistics innovation	9
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	8
Stepping up to the mark? Firms’ export activity and environmental innovation in 14 European countries	8
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	8
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	8
Beyond business as usual? How organisations navigate tensions between circular economy and intellectual property right strategies	8
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	8
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	8
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	7
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	7
Innovation under constraints: the role of open innovation in Ghana	7
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	7
Disentangling regional innovation capability: what really matters?	7
Million dollar baby -A primer on film finance practices in the U.S. movie industry	7
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	7
Location determinants of high-tech firms: an intra-urban approach	6
A managerial mental model to drive innovation in the context of digital transformation	6
Correction	5
Doors and walls: physical barriers and knowledge sharing	5
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	5
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	5
On the resilience of innovation systems	5
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	5
Disrupting regional efficiency gaps via Industry 4.0 firm investments	5
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	5
Financial resources for research and innovation in small and larger firms: Is it a case of the more you have, the more you do?	5
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	4
Introduction to special issue on corporate and startup collaborations in an age of disruption: looking beyond the dyad	4
The evolution of niche: variety in knowledge networks in the global music industry	4
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	4

Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	4
Reaching for the stars: analyzing market entry in the space economy	4
Exploration and the termination of inventions: the role of the structure of the firm’s knowledge base and its failure experience	4
How do changing institutional logics affect innovation? The cases of Online Electric Vehicle and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle in Korea	4
Overcoming the liability of patenting in early-stage ventures with market orientation	4
Helping start-ups and public organisations to align: Co-producing the co-creation context in a public hospital	4
Do European firms obey the rules? Environmental innovativeness in light of institutional frameworks	4
Transitioning through a crisis: industrial customer responses to a green technology innovation scheme	3
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	3
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	3
Introduction to the special issue on “the twin (digital and green) transition: handling the economic and social challenges”	3
Skills shortage and innovation	3
Organisations’ Resources and External Shocks: Exploring Digital Innovation in Family Firms	3
DUI it yourself: Innovation and activities to promote learning by doing, using, and interacting within the firm	3
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	3
Heterogeneity of optimal balance between exploration and exploitation:the moderating roles of firm technological capability and industry alliance network position	3
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	3
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	2
When opposites attract: a review and synthesis of corporate-startup collaboration	2
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	2
R&D subsidies and firm innovation: does human capital matter?	2
The employment implications of additive manufacturing	2
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	2
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	2
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	2
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	2
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	2
Character trait, context or… create! Innovative practices among creative entrepreneurs	2
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	2
Coding for intangible competitive advantage - mapping the distribution and characteristics of software-developing firms in the Swedish economy	2
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	2
Diffusion with generational cohorts	2
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	2
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	2