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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
R&D networks and their effects on knowledge exploration versus knowledge exploitation: Evidence from a spatial econometric perspective	102
Economic complexity and the global asset-seeking strategies of Chinese multinationals	74
Information accessibility and knowledge creation: the impact of Google’s withdrawal from China on scientific research	61
Platform participants hedging risk: post-alliance technology search of a platform participant and a rival platform	59
Workforce size adaptation under uncertainty: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	45
Shaping knowledge ecosystems through University–industry collaboration: exploring the ‘second-order’ impact of knowledge sharing	45
On trademarks and innovation: a retrospective, 10 years later	42
Patent assertion entities and follow-on innovation. Evidence from patent acquisitions at the USPTO	41
Correction	38
Does employee’s diversity help innovation?: Evidence from Canadian firms	37
On the resilience of innovation systems	37
Digitalisation in European regions: unravelling the impact of relatedness and complexity on digital technology adoption and productivity growth	37
Knowledge work and occupational stress	36
Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China	35
Managing where you are: agglomeration economies, managerial industry experience and innovation in South-East Asia	32
Dancing with strangers: a dyadic view of university-industry research collaborations	30
The impact of the EU General data protection regulation on product innovation	28
Exploring the foundations of ‘the architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems’	27
How does Confucianism influence green innovation? Evidence from China	26
How spatial proximity facilitates distant search – a social capital perspective on local open innovation	25
Knowledge sources for Industry 4.0 technologies in European regions: the role of inward FDIs	24
Attractiveness, ethnicity, and stage financing: exploring heuristics in venture capital staging	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	22
Corporate environmental R&D: does organisational innovation matter?	22

Cultivating green innovation in established organisations and fields	21
Opening the gates: how public data reduces entry barriers and fuels AI entrepreneurship activity in China	21
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
Technological complexity and global capabilities in SMEs. A survey in an Italian industrial region	16
Linking external collaborations, eco-innovation and sustainable growth. An empirical analysis on the Italian manufacturing firms	16
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
Old and new: a dynamic capabilities perspective of learning and unlearning	15
Intellectual property crises induced by incumbent firms and latecomer firms’ catch-up performance: evidence from different sectoral environments	14
Empowering corporate ventures: the role of incumbents’ supplier support on internal corporate venture innovation	14
In and out of Pasteur’s quadrant: revisiting trends in corporate science	14
Go and conquer the world? Entrepreneurs’ international experience and the target of different types of foreign markets	13
Is eco-innovation employment-friendly? Evidence from China	13
When digital meets green: digital and circular practices among European start-ups and scale-ups	12
R&D investments under financing constraints	12
Graduate hiring as a human capital outcome of university-industry innovation collaboration	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	12
Government funding and firms’ non-funded innovation trajectory	12
Overcoming innovation barriers through collaboration in emerging countries: the case of Colombian manufacturing firms	12
Mapping critical raw materials in green technologies	12
Firms’ patenting and collective cumulative knowledge: evidence from the largest R&D investors in the world	11
Robots and firm reshoring	11
Corporate board network and green technological innovation: a view of guanxi culture in China	11
The double-edged sword of customer participation on new product development performance: the contingent roles of relational and environmental factors	11
Knowing brown and inventing Green? A conversation on award-winning research into the automotive transition	11
On the road to regional ‘Competitive Environmental Sustainability’: the role of the European structural funds	11
Do place-based policies shape the industrial diversification path in underdeveloped cities? Evidence from China’s development zone policy	10
Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward*	10
The heterogenous relationship between migration and innovation: Evidence from Italy	10
The relationship between robotics and housing prices: evidence from housing markets in Chinese cities	10