OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economics of Innovation and New Technology is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	75
R&D lags in economic models	32
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	31
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	30
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	16
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	15
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	14
Obituary	14
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	14
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	12
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	11
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	10
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	10
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	8
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	8
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D with spillovers under consumer-friendly firms	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	7
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	7
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	7
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	7
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	6
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	6

Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	6
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	6
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	6
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	6
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	5
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	5
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	5
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
The role of socio-historic factors and income inequality in global innovation	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	5
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	5
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	5
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	4
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
Business model experimentation in SMEs: the application of a dual scaling technique	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	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
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4