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Firm Innovation and Growth

Firm Innovation and Growth is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1952. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution of firm size distribution, innovation's impact on firm survival and employment, growth rates, R&D influence, industry dynamics, small firms' behavior, technological change, market entry effects, and profitability.

  • Innovation
  • Firm Survival
  • Employment
  • Growth Rates
  • R&D
  • Industry Dynamics
  • Small Firms
  • Technological Change
  • Market Entry
  • Profitability
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Firm Innovation and Growth

Which countries lead Firm Innovation and Growth research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.1k and 703 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.1k works
  2. 2 United States 703 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 219 works
  4. 4 India 211 works
  5. 5 Italy 203 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 186 works
  7. 7 Germany 155 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 147 works
  9. 9 South Korea 140 works
  10. 10 Spain 133 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 35.0%United States: 21.8%United Kingdom: 6.8%India: 6.5%6 others listed: 29.9%35%largest
China1,128 · 35.0%United States703 · 21.8%United Kingdom219 · 6.8%India211 · 6.5%6 others listed965 · 29.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Firm Innovation and Growth research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Firm Innovation and Growth research, followed by Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Xiamen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  2. 2 Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 20 works
  3. 3 Xiamen UniversityChina 20 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 17 works
  5. 5 Peking UniversityChina 17 works
  6. 6 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 Renmin University of ChinaChina 15 works
  8. 8 Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 15 works
  9. 9 Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina 15 works
  10. 10 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Firm Innovation and Growth?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Firm Innovation and Growth include Andrei Shleifer, Christian M. Ringle and Harry Eugene Stanley.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  2. 2 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  3. 3 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Firm Innovation and Growth?

The most cited paper in Firm Innovation and Growth is "Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage" (Jay Bryan Barney, 2004), with 38,420 citations. Next come "Dynamic capabilities and strategic management" (32,830) and "The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research" (11,251).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage Jay Bryan Barney · Advances in strategic management Book chapter 19 May 2004 38,420
2 Dynamic capabilities and strategic management David J. Teece, Gary Paul Pisano, Amy Shuen · Strategic Management Journal Aug 1997 32,830
3 The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research Scott A. Shane, Sankaran Venkataraman · Academy of Management Review 2000 11,251
4 The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view Margaret A. Peteraf · Strategic Management Journal Mar 1993 10,786
5 How to do Xtabond2: An Introduction to Difference and System GMM in Stata David Malin Roodman · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata Mar 2009 9,842
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Where is Firm Innovation and Growth research done?

The largest centres of Firm Innovation and Growth research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and Wuhan (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 181 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 98 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 74 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 69 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 59 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 57 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 57 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 56 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 55 works
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Where is the best place to study Firm Innovation and Growth?

Among universities, judged by research, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhejiang Gongshang U…Shanghai University …Renmin University of…Southwestern Univers…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 75.916.2%32.2×20 +187.5%
2Zhejiang Gongshang UniversityChina 68.436.9%14.6×10 +41.4%
3Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina 65.819.2%34.2×15 +121.7%
4Renmin University of ChinaChina 65.216.4%10.9×15 +75.9%
5Xiamen UniversityChina 64.312.3%5.2×20 +181.5%
6Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina 64.221.7%30.9×14 +139.4%
7Bocconi UniversityItaly 63.322.9%28.3×11 -12.5%
8Peking UniversityChina 62.113.9%1.9×17 +55.2%
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 61.917.8%2.5×10 +30.3%
10University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 60.315.2%5.2×14 +117.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Firm Innovation and Growth, country by country

Is Firm Innovation and Growth research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Firm Innovation and Growth as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Firm Innovation and Growth0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Firm Innovation and Growth over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Firm Innovation and Growth10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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