| Technology ventures: from idea to enterprise T Byers, R Dorf, A Nelson McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2014 | 755* | 2014 |
| Measuring knowledge spillovers: What patents, licenses and publications reveal about innovation diffusion AJ Nelson Research policy 38 (6), 994-1005, 2009 | 355 | 2009 |
| Conceptualizing academic entrepreneurship ecosystems: A review, analysis and extension of the literature CS Hayter, AJ Nelson, S Zayed, AC O’Connor The Journal of Technology Transfer 43, 1039-1082, 2018 | 345 | 2018 |
| " Defining What We Do--All Over Again": Occupational Identity, Technological Change, and the Librarian/Internet-Search Relationship A Nelson, J Irwin Academy of Management Journal, 2013 | 269 | 2013 |
| Help-seeking and help-giving as an organizational routine: Continual engagement in innovative work S Grodal, AJ Nelson, RM Siino Academy of Management Journal 58 (1), 136-168, 2015 | 178 | 2015 |
| “If chemists don’t do it, who is going to?” Peer-driven occupational change and the emergence of green chemistry J Howard-Grenville, AJ Nelson, AG Earle, JA Haack, DM Young Administrative Science Quarterly 62 (3), 524-560, 2017 | 126 | 2017 |
| “Who are you?… I really wanna know”: Product meaning and competitive positioning in the nascent synthesizer industry C Anthony, AJ Nelson, M Tripsas Strategy Science 1 (3), 163-183, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
| From the ivory tower to the startup garage: Organizational context and commercialization processes AJ Nelson Research policy 43 (7), 1144-1156, 2014 | 99 | 2014 |
| From the editors—Achieving fit and avoiding misfit in qualitative research J Howard-Grenville, A Nelson, H Vough, TB Zilber Academy of Management Journal 64 (5), 1313-1323, 2021 | 94 | 2021 |
| Do innovation measures actually measure innovation? Obliteration, symbolic adoption, and other finicky challenges in tracking innovation diffusion A Nelson, A Earle, J Howard-Grenville, J Haack, D Young Research Policy 43 (6), 927-940, 2014 | 81 | 2014 |
| How to share “a really good secret”: Managing sharing/secrecy tensions around scientific knowledge disclosure AJ Nelson Organization Science 27 (2), 265-285, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
| Cacophony or harmony? Multivocal logics and technology licensing by the Stanford University Department of Music AJ Nelson Industrial and Corporate Change 14 (1), 93-118, 2005 | 70 | 2005 |
| Putting university research in context: Assessing alternative measures of production and diffusion at Stanford AJ Nelson Research Policy 41 (4), 678-691, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| The sound of innovation: Stanford and the computer music revolution AJ Nelson MIT Press, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Chapter Five. challenges in University Technology Transfer and the promising role of Entrepreneurship Education A Nelson, T Byers The Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic …, 2015 | 56* | 2015 |
| Teaching technology commercialization: introduction to the special section AJ Nelson, E Monsen The Journal of Technology Transfer 39, 774-779, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Organizational modularity and intra-university relationships between entrepreneurship education and technology transfer A Nelson, T Byers University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer, 275-311, 2005 | 42 | 2005 |
| “A towering virtue of necessity”: Interdisciplinarity and the rise of computer music at Vietnam-era Stanford CCM Mody, AJ Nelson Osiris 28 (1), 254-277, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations T Weiss, R Eberhart, M Lounsbury, A Nelson, V Rindova, J Meyer, ... Journal of Management Inquiry 32 (4), 251-277, 2023 | 21 | 2023 |
| Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose: Entrepreneurialism and the changing nature of employment relations RN Eberhart, S Barley, A Nelson Entrepreneurialism and society: New theoretical perspectives 81, 13-41, 2022 | 21 | 2022 |
