Here's a good example of influential paper published outside of academia by a company which was really small at the time: http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/is1/a

Here's a good example of influential paper published outside of academia by a company which was really small at the time: http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/is1/articles/04/10/lop/mps.pdf http://www.onboard.jetbrains.com/is1/articles/04/10/lop/mps.... It has a plenty of citations: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=11133136420094763520&as_sdt=40000005&sciodt=0,22&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1113313642009476352... It all resulted in an innovative product: https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/