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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Social capital, the knowledge filter and innovative start-ups: the Italian evidence	108
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	22
Green R&D cooperation and environmental policies in network industries	20
Building a scientific community? The WOEPS workshop and the evolution of the economics of science, 1994–2023	17
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	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	15
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	15
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	14
R&D lags in economic models	14
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	13
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	12
Does the timing of AI exposure matter? Generational composition, human capital, and productivity	12
Obituary	12
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	12
Does participation in technology standard-setting promote Chinese firms’ technological innovation performance?	11
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	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 interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
Strategic environmental corporate social responsibility with improvements in pollutant reduction technology: Cournot vs. Bertrand	9
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	9
Unlocking innovation potential: the non-linear effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation breadth	9
Introduction: innovation, knowledge dynamics, and the economics of science – A memorial issue in honor of Paul A. David	9

Can strong intellectual property rights protection induce an innovator to shirk?	9
Spatiotemporal dynamics of creative performance and innovation capacity in Europe: a multidimensional perspective	8
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	8
From lock-in to convergence: network homophily and biotechnology in the evolution of cultured meat	8
Which policy can better promote technology R&D? Subsidies or nationalization?	8
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	8
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	8
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	8
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	7
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	7
Cross-ownership and cooperative R&D under research subsidy policy	7
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	7
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	7
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	7
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	7
Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	6
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	6
Digital transformation and productivity growth in European light manufacturing industries: evidence from panel data (2015–2022)	6
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	6
Technological path-dependency in AI adoption: evidence from Italian firms	6
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	6
International patent surge: why do countries file patents abroad?	6
Tangible and intangible proximities in the access to Venture Capital by Innovative Start-up Companies	6
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	5
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	5
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	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
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Digital infrastructure and regional economic disparities: Evidence from the broadband China strategy	5
Gender homophily and diversity in patenting: academic and corporate assignees in inventor’s collaborations	5
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	5
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	5
Artificial intelligence as a complement to other innovation activities and as a method of invention	5
Australian insights: labor quality, technology penetration, and economic growth	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	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
When machines pay workers more: AI adoption and labor's rising share in Chinese manufacturing	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
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	4
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	4

Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty