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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	79
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	36
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	33
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	33
R&D lags in economic models	18
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	17
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	17
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	17
Obituary	15
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	14
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	12
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	11
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	10
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	10
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	8
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D with spillovers under consumer-friendly firms	8
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	8
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	8
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	8
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	7
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	7
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	7
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	7

Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	7
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	7
Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	7
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	7
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	7
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	6
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	6
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	6
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	5
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	5
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	5
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	5
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	5
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	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
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4