OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industry and Innovation is 9. 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
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	28
Correction	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
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	26
On the resilience of innovation systems	26
Skills shortage and innovation	24
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	24
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	23
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	23
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	22
Direct and moderating effects of public R&D support on external knowledge acquisition: the interaction with performance feedback	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
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	18
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	18
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	17
International doctoral graduates as inventors in the German innovation system	16
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
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	15
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
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
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
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
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
Robots and firm reshoring	11
Industrial land policy and economic complexity of Chinese Cities	11
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
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
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	9
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