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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	49
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	49
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	38
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	32
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	32
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	31
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	30
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	27
Correction	27
On the resilience of innovation systems	25
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	25
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	23
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	23
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	22
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	22
Skills shortage and innovation	22
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	21
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	21
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	20
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	19
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	17
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	16
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	15
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	15
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	14

Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	14
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	14
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	14
Market orientation and innovation behaviour: how do service employees benefit from their uniplex and multiplex intrafirm network centrality?	14
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	13
On the sudden rise of Dutch science at the end of the nineteenth century: a core-periphery approach	13
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	13
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	13
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	13
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	13
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	12
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	12
R&D investments under financing constraints	12
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	12
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	12
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	12
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	11
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	11
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	11
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	10
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	10
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	9
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	9
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	9
Robots and firm reshoring	9
The relationship between profit-sharing schemes and R&D activities: evidence from German firm-level data	9
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	9
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	9
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	9
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	8
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	8
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	8
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	8
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	7
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	7
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	7
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	7
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	7
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	7
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	7
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	7
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	7
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	7
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	6
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	6
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	6
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	6
E-skills and income inequality within European regions	6
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	6
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	6

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