OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industry and Innovation is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping knowledge ecosystems through University–industry collaboration: exploring the ‘second-order’ impact of knowledge sharing	81
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	53
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	51
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	47
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	41
Fast as a gazelle – young firms gaining from educational diversity	37
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	36
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	35
Correction	35
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	32
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	32
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	32
On the resilience of innovation systems	32
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	30
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	29
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	28
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	26
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	23
Knowledge sources for Industry 4.0 technologies in European regions: the role of inward FDIs	23
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	22
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	22
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	21
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	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	19

Artefacts, routines, and co-production: a pioneering case of artificial intelligence-based health services in Argentina	19
The emergence of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: the interplay between early entrepreneurial activity and public policy in the Korean online gaming industry	18
The dynamics of a global innovation system: green methanol as a marine transportation fuel	18
The price of mistrust: the impact of a medical ethics scandal on scientific capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa	17
Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	17
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	17
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	17
Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”	16
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	15
In and out of Pasteur’s quadrant: revisiting trends in corporate science	15
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	15
R&D investments under financing constraints	13
Empowering corporate ventures: the role of incumbents’ supplier support on internal corporate venture innovation	13
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	12
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	11
Which innovations for Circular Business Models? A product life-cycle categorisation	11
Advanced digitalisation and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: firm-level evidence from developing and emerging economies	11
Robots and firm reshoring	11
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	11
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	11
Education, routine, and complexity-biased Key Enabling Technologies: evidence from Emilia-Romagna, Italy	11
Competitive dynamism in nascent markets: trademarks and superstar firm entry in the metaverse	10
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	10
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	10
Public R&D funding and new regional specialisations: The contingent role of technological relatedness	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	10
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	10
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	10