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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?	64
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	35
R&D lags in economic models	29
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	26
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	22
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	14
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	14
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	14
Obituary	11
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	11
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	10
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	8
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D with spillovers under consumer-friendly firms	8
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	8
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	7
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	6
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	6
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	6
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	6
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	6
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	5
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	5
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	5
The role of socio-historic factors and income inequality in global innovation	5

Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	5
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	5
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	5
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	5
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	5
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	5
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	5
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	4
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	4
R&D and CEO turnover	4
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	4
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	4
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	4
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	4
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	4
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	4
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	3
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	3
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	3
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	3
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	3
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	3
Labour-augmenting technical change data for alternative elasticities of substitution: growth, slowdown, and distribution dynamics	3
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	3
Business model experimentation in SMEs: the application of a dual scaling technique	3
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	3
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	3
A lasting connection: colonial ties and scientific capabilities in sub-Saharan Africa	3
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	3
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	3
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	3
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	3
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	3
Innovation and skill premium	2
From experimentation to scaling: what shapes the funnel of AI adoption?	2
Cross-industry innovation for sustainable repositioning through cluster collaboration	2
Gender differences among innovators: a patent analysis of stars	2
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	2
Assessing the impact of digital technology diffusion policies. Evidence from Italy	2
Beyond productivity, does the adoption of agricultural technologies improve food consumption and reduce poverty? Empirical evidence from Benin	2
Can the development of digital finance stimulate enterprise innovation? Empirical evidence from China	2
The role of information technology and workplace organization in firm productivity: evidence from Spanish firms	2
The impact of automation on employment and its social implications: evidence from Chile	2
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	2
Automation-skill complementarity: the returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption	2
R&D investment and network effects: A dynamic model of the search engine market	2
Private R&D, environmental policy, and greenhouse gas emissions	2
Reputational impact on startup accelerator’s information disclosure and performance	2
4.0 Technological transformations: heterogeneous effects on regional growth	2

Complementarity between product and process innovation in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	1
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	1
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	1
The impact of R&D incentives and sectoral knowledge stocks on R&D outcomes	1
Explaining differences in the returns to R&D in Argentina: the role of contextual factors	1
What determines initial coin offering success: a cross-country study	1
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	1
Generic technology R&D decision with technology spillover, cost difference, and bargaining power under oligopoly competition	1
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	1
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	1
How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	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
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	1
Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC	1
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	1
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	1
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	1
Digital transition in a turbulent world: European regional growth opportunities in 17 years' time	1
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	1
Firm survival and innovation: direct and indirect effects of knowledge for SMEs	1
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	1
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis	1
Subsidising innovation outside or within firms’ existing knowledge bases: which is best for radical innovation?	1
Previous intrapreneurship experience as a determinant of entrepreneurial activity and performance	1
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	1