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

Article	Citations
Social capital, the knowledge filter and innovative start-ups: the Italian evidence	101
Public funding reform and university innovation: quasi-experimental evidence from Scotland's free tuition policy	51
FDI-related spillovers of climate change mitigation technologies and greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries	42
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	23
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	19
Building a scientific community? The WOEPS workshop and the evolution of the economics of science, 1994–2023	18
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	17
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	16
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	16
R&D lags in economic models	15
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	14
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	13
Obituary	12
Does participation in technology standard-setting promote Chinese firms’ technological innovation performance?	12
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	12
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	11
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	11
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	11
Unlocking innovation potential: the non-linear effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation breadth	10
The role of carbon emission trading system in driving firm-level innovation and cross-region pollution	10
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	9
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	9
Introduction: innovation, knowledge dynamics, and the economics of science – A memorial issue in honor of Paul A. David	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	9

Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	9
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	8
Which policy can better promote technology R&D? Subsidies or nationalization?	8
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	8
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	8
Can strong intellectual property rights protection induce an innovator to shirk?	8
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	8
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	7
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	7
Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Tangible and intangible proximities in the access to Venture Capital by Innovative Start-up Companies	7
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	7
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	6
Spatiotemporal dynamics of creative performance and innovation capacity in Europe: a multidimensional perspective	6
Cross-ownership and cooperative R&D under research subsidy policy	6
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Digital infrastructure and regional economic disparities: Evidence from the broadband China strategy	5
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	5
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	5
Technological path-dependency in AI adoption: evidence from Italian firms	5
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	5
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	5
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
Gender homophily and diversity in patenting: academic and corporate assignees in inventor’s collaborations	5
Environmental regulations, industrial R&D, and reduction in toxic emissions: the interplay of the public and private sectors to achieve sustainable manufacturing production	5
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
A theory based analysis of path dependence	4
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	4
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
Australian insights: labor quality, technology penetration, and economic growth	4
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	4
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	4
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4
International collaborations and the patenting intensity of US inventors	4
Automation-skill complementarity: the returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption	4
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	4
Breaking in or breaking through? How local specialisations shape the integration of AI technologies	3
From experimentation to scaling: what shapes the funnel of AI adoption?	3
Cooperative environmental corporate social responsibility and environmental R&D organizations	3
Can the development of digital finance stimulate enterprise innovation? Empirical evidence from China	3
FDI and innovation spillovers: evidence from Chilean firms	3

Experimental economics in the control of quadruple helix projects in local innovation systems in Colombia	3
Innovation and skill premium	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
The role of information technology and workplace organization in firm productivity: evidence from Spanish firms	3
A composite innovation factor based on the constrained MAR model	3
Socioeconomic impact of environmental product and process innovation in the context of global trade	3
Private R&D, environmental policy, and greenhouse gas emissions	3
Beyond productivity, does the adoption of agricultural technologies improve food consumption and reduce poverty? Empirical evidence from Benin	3
Machine learning in healthcare: a new pattern of diffusion for general purpose technologies	3
Assessing the impact of digital technology diffusion policies. Evidence from Italy	3
4.0 Technological transformations: heterogeneous effects on regional growth	3
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	2
Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC	2
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	2
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	2
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	2
How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	2
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	2
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	2
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	2
Complementarity between product and process innovation in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	2
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	2
Generic technology R&D decision with technology spillover, cost difference, and bargaining power under oligopoly competition	2
Homophily inertia and innovative activity: cross-country firm-level evidence	2
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	2
Skills over credential: wage premiums and remote work in the post-Pandemic economy	2
Gothic moonshots	2
Subsidising innovation outside or within firms’ existing knowledge bases: which is best for radical innovation?	2
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	2
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	2
Knowledge spillovers and public investment in innovation: empirical evidence from the United Kingdom	2
Assessing the impact of homophily on knowledge collaboration and innovative outcomes	2
The capital saving, intangible, and skill intensive direction of technological change in Europe	2
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	2
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	2
Remote work, skill upgrading, and wage inequality post-COVID	2
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	2
Starting up AI	2
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	2
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	2
Economic adjustment during the great recession: the role of managerial quality	1
Inventive capabilities in the division of innovative labor	1
Innovative activity among knowledge intensive entrepreneurial firms: an exploratory study of homophilic relationships	1
Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports	1
Corporate social responsibility and innovation in unionised markets	1
The diffusion of renewable energy production in European countries: the role of incentives	1
The impact of R&D incentives and sectoral knowledge stocks on R&D outcomes	1
Digital transition in a turbulent world: European regional growth opportunities in 17 years’ time	1
Digitalisation, institutions and governance, and diffusion: mechanisms and evidence	1
Artificial intelligence and firms’ labor income share: measurement and analysis based on LLM	1
R&D timing when CSR aware firms engage in a research joint venture	1
When machines set prices: artificial intelligence investment and firm markups in China	1
Is a firm’s productivity level affected by its number and types of innovation cooperation partners?	1
Persistence of R&D intensities in the world's top investors in R&D	1
From globalization to reshoring? The role of Industry 4.0 in global value chains across Europe	1
Decarbonisation and new path development in the German lignite energy generation industry	1
The long-term effects of R&D subsidies on firm performance: evidence from a regression discontinuity design	1
Sustainable energy transition, knowledge co-creation and trade: the case of EU residential energy efficiency	1
Firm survival and innovation: direct and indirect effects of knowledge for SMEs	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation	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
A rational choice of technology in a strategic setting	1
Disentangling neutral, directional, and complementarity effects of technological change: evidence from 32 OECD countries, 1994–2019	1
Measuring firm innovativeness across countries, sectors and time	1
Cobb–Douglas R&D production function, appropriability and opportunity: effects on R&D, technological progress and knowledge sharing	1
Inside the biotech: a dialogue between Rosenberg, Babbage, Smith, and Schumpeter	1
CSR and corporate science	1
How does carbon trading market promote green technology innovation?	1
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis	1
Financing instruments for innovation in the EU: panel evidence from the SAFE survey	1
Strategic incentives and policy levers in the economics of AI alignment	1