OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industry and Innovation is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	75
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	49
Shaping knowledge ecosystems through University–industry collaboration: exploring the ‘second-order’ impact of knowledge sharing	47
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	40
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	34
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	32
Correction	32
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	30
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	30
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	28
On the resilience of innovation systems	28
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	27
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	27
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	27
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	26
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	26
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	25
Knowledge sources for Industry 4.0 technologies in European regions: the role of inward FDIs	24
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	22
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	22
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	21
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	20
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	19
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	19

The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	18
Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	18
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	17
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	17
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	17
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	15
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	15
The dynamics of a global innovation system: green methanol as a marine transportation fuel	15
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	15
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	15
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	15
In and out of Pasteur’s quadrant: revisiting trends in corporate science	14
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	14
R&D investments under financing constraints	14
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	14
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	13
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	11
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	11
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	10
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	10
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	10
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	10
Robots and firm reshoring	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	10
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	10
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	9
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	9
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	8
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	8
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	8
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	8
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	8
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	8
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	8
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	8
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	8
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	8
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	8
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	7
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	7
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	7
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	7
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	7
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	7
Sticky partnerships or fresh starts? How failed project applications shape organisations’ collaborative behaviour in R&D networks	7
AI in innovation research: an overview of transformers	7
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	7
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	6

Digital technologies and eco-innovation. Evidence of the twin transition from Italian firms	6
Employment externalisation in response to a temporary exogenous shock: an adjustment costs perspective	6
Unpacking the role of relatedness in technological diversification in the US metropolitan statistical areas	6
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	6
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	6
“Twin transition” and HRM practices: empirical evidence from Italian firms	5
Building synthetic worlds: lessons from the excessive infatuation and oversold disillusionment with the metaverse	5
The business case for sustainability: six takes on a cultural artefact	5
Industrial path development in the UK space sector: processes of legitimacy building in the establishment of Space 2.0	5
Hampered by creation: the unintended consequences of COVID-19 policies on creative firms	5
Scenarios of technological progress in Italy: what can we expect?	4
Reaching for the stars: analyzing market entry in the space economy	4
CSR spillover effects of corporate M&As by U.S. Acquirers	4
Complementors’ interactions in the wind energy ecosystem: coopetitive dynamics	4
The role of complementary interregional linkages for functional upgrading and downgrading of global value chains in EU regions	4
Learning by exporting for marketing innovation	4
Automation, firm employment and skill upgrading: firm-level evidence from China	4
Shortcuts to award winning research: analogies from ‘shortcuts to innovation: the use of analogies in knowledge production’	4
R&D policy instrument mix sequencing: evaluating the impact of receiving R&D grants and R&D tax credits over time on firm-level R&D	4
Innovation dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence: introduction to the special issue	4
Digitalisation and global value chain participation: evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms	4
Star inventors, knowledge complexity and collaborative ties: what drives deference in invention teams?	4
The role of initial and gradual trust in growing and unlocking regional industrial specialisations	4
Open innovation in science: assessing the formation and function of SME-university collaborations through the proximity matrix	4
What facilitates the effectiveness of innovation ecosystem-specific experimentation? A dynamic capabilities perspective	4
Geography and the speed of green technology diffusion	3
Promote or inhibit? The influence of partner repeatedness in university-industry alliance portfolios on firm innovation performance	3
Introduction to the Special Issue on Open Innovation in Science	3
How a firm’s knowledge base influences its external technology sourcing strategy: the case of biopharmaceutical firms	3
Set skilled workers free: the mobility of workers and innovation in Brazil	3
Venture Capital Financing and Green Patenting	3
When do state-owned enterprises innovate? The moderating role of pro-market institutions	3
Internal migration, diversity, and innovation: new evidence from the relaxation of migration barriers in China	3
Randomisation as a tool for organisational decision-making: a debatable or debilitating proposition?	3
New digital technologies and firm performance in the Italian economy	3
New regional industrial path development and innovation networks in times of economic crisis	3
Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry: An Integrating Framework to Analyse Technological Novelty and Breadth	3
Open for business: can open science partnerships mitigate barriers to academia-industry collaboration and science-based innovation?	3
R&D investment and innovation performance under vertical partner concentration	3