OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economics of Innovation and New Technology is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Social capital, the knowledge filter and innovative start-ups: the Italian evidence	89
Public funding reform and university innovation: quasi-experimental evidence from Scotland's free tuition policy	40
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	37
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	34
Building a scientific community? The WOEPS workshop and the evolution of the economics of science, 1994–2023	21
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	18
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	18
R&D lags in economic models	16
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	12
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	11
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	11
Obituary	10
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	10
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	10
Does participation in technology standard-setting promote Chinese firms’ technological innovation performance?	10
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	9
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	8
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	8
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	8
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	8
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	8
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	8
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	8

Unlocking innovation potential: the non-linear effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation breadth	8
Which policy can better promote technology R&D? Subsidies or nationalization?	8
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	8
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	8
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	8
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	7
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	7
Tangible and intangible proximities in the access to Venture Capital by Innovative Start-up Companies	7
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	7
Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	7
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	6
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	6
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
Technological path-dependency in AI adoption: evidence from Italian firms	5
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4
R&D and CEO turnover	4
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	4
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	4
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
Australian insights: labor quality, technology penetration, and economic growth	4
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	4
Digital infrastructure and regional economic disparities: Evidence from the broadband China strategy	4
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	4
Environmental regulations, industrial R&D, and reduction in toxic emissions: the interplay of the public and private sectors to achieve sustainable manufacturing production	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	3
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	3
R&D investment and network effects: A dynamic model of the search engine market	3
Cross-industry innovation for sustainable repositioning through cluster collaboration	3
Beyond productivity, does the adoption of agricultural technologies improve food consumption and reduce poverty? Empirical evidence from Benin	3
Innovation and skill premium	3
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	3
Automation-skill complementarity: the returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption	3
Machine learning in healthcare: a new pattern of diffusion for general purpose technologies	3
Can the development of digital finance stimulate enterprise innovation? Empirical evidence from China	3
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	3

A theory based analysis of path dependence	3
Private R&D, environmental policy, and greenhouse gas emissions	3
Breaking in or breaking through? How local specialisations shape the integration of AI technologies	3
Cooperative environmental corporate social responsibility and environmental R&D organizations	3
Subsidising innovation outside or within firms’ existing knowledge bases: which is best for radical innovation?	2
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	2
Knowledge spillovers and public investment in innovation: empirical evidence from the United Kingdom	2
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	2
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	2
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	2
Gender differences among innovators: a patent analysis of stars	2
How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	2
Assessing the impact of digital technology diffusion policies. Evidence from Italy	2
The capital saving, intangible, and skill intensive direction of technological change in Europe	2
Complementarity between product and process innovation in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	2
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	2
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	2
The role of information technology and workplace organization in firm productivity: evidence from Spanish firms	2
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	2
From experimentation to scaling: what shapes the funnel of AI adoption?	2
Explaining differences in the returns to R&D in Argentina: the role of contextual factors	2
Remote work, skill upgrading, and wage inequality post-COVID	2
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	2
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	2
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	2
4.0 Technological transformations: heterogeneous effects on regional growth	2
A composite innovation factor based on the constrained MAR model	2
Homophily inertia and innovative activity: cross-country firm-level evidence	2
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	1
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	1
Digitalisation, institutions and governance, and diffusion: mechanisms and evidence	1
Is a firm’s productivity level affected by its number and types of innovation cooperation partners?	1
The long-term effects of R&D subsidies on firm performance: evidence from a regression discontinuity design	1
Firm patenting and types of innovation. An empirical investigation on patenting determinants in developing countries	1
Decarbonisation and new path development in the German lignite energy generation industry	1
Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation	1
How does carbon trading market promote green technology innovation?	1
Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC	1
R&D timing when CSR aware firms engage in a research joint venture	1
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	1
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Cobb–Douglas R&D production function, appropriability and opportunity: effects on R&D, technological progress and knowledge sharing	1
The diffusion of renewable energy production in European countries: the role of incentives	1
Innovative activity among knowledge intensive entrepreneurial firms: an exploratory study of homophilic relationships	1
Digital transition in a turbulent world: European regional growth opportunities in 17 years’ time	1
Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports	1
Independent and major equity market and commodity return sources around the time of hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling revolution: a differences-in-decompositions approach	1
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	1
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	1
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Sustainable energy transition, knowledge co-creation and trade: the case of EU residential energy efficiency	1
Disentangling neutral, directional, and complementarity effects of technological change: evidence from 32 OECD countries, 1994–2019	1
The impact of R&D incentives and sectoral knowledge stocks on R&D outcomes	1
Inside the biotech: a dialogue between Rosenberg, Babbage, Smith, and Schumpeter	1
CSR and corporate science	1
Firm survival and innovation: direct and indirect effects of knowledge for SMEs	1
Generic technology R&D decision with technology spillover, cost difference, and bargaining power under oligopoly competition	1