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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	57
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	44
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	38
What kinds of relatedness promote new firm formation? Evidence from Italy	37
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	34
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	32
Correction	28
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	28
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	27
The timing of diversification and startup firms’ survival: a resource-based perspective	27
On the resilience of innovation systems	26
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	26
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	24
Skills shortage and innovation	24
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	23
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	23
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	22
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	22
Path dependency, social capital and the geography of dirty inventions	20
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	19
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	18
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	18
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	17
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	16
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	15

The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	15
Generating tacit knowledge across borders: international collaboration and design innovation in Norway	15
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	14
Does diversity make collaborative subsidies effective? ICT sector in Korea	14
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	14
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	14
Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	14
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	13
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	13
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	13
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	13
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	13
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	13
R&D investments under financing constraints	13
The impact of institutional voids and ecosystem logics in the spread of ecosystems in emerging economies	13
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	12
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	12
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	11
Robots and firm reshoring	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	10
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	10
Crowds, citizens, and science: a multi-dimensional framework and agenda for future research	10
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	10
How does basic research improve innovation performance in the world’s major pharmaceutical firms?	10
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	9
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	9
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	9
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	9
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	9
Influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems on innovation ecosystems in peripheral regions: the case of the Champagne-Ardenne region	8
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	8
Foreign market expansion of ecosystems: a process model	8
Ambidexterity and innovation in cluster SMEs: evidence from Indonesian manufacturing	7
The rise of the digital service economy in European regions	7
R&D subsidy and corporate innovation: an integrated view of resource allocation and resource utilisation	7
How employees are affected by working in R&D-investing firms	7
The search for alternatives to internal combustion: instantiation mechanisms of institutional logics among scientists and engineers	7
An innovation systems approach to decoding China’s technological catch-up: the case of the semiconductor industry	7
Grand innovation challenges: celebrating 30 years of Industry and Innovation with a special issue	7
The impact of China’s total carbon emission control policy on low carbon total factor productivity	7
Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms	7
Three incumbents restructuring the Swedish energy and steel regimes: the case of Hybrit	7
Does digital economy policy benefit green innovation? Evidence from heavily polluting industries in China	7
Unleashing economic growth through circular business models and innovation networks: a configurational analysis	6
Disparities in robot adoption among U.S. manufacturers: a critical economic development challenge	6
“Twin transition” and HRM practices: empirical evidence from Italian firms	6
Knowledge spillovers through high-skilled migration network: evidence from OECD countries	6
We’ve got the power: an exploration of relational power and discontinuous continuity in a creative ecosystem of techno-music	6
Sticky partnerships or fresh starts? How failed project applications shape organisations’ collaborative behaviour in R&D networks	6

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