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 2022-05-01 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
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
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	8
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
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
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
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	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
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
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