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

Article	Citations
Social capital, the knowledge filter and innovative start-ups: the Italian evidence	89
Public funding reform and university innovation: quasi-experimental evidence from Scotland's free tuition policy	40
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	37
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	34
Building a scientific community? The WOEPS workshop and the evolution of the economics of science, 1994–2023	21
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	18
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	18
R&D lags in economic models	16
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	12
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	11
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	11
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	10
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	10
Does participation in technology standard-setting promote Chinese firms’ technological innovation performance?	10
Obituary	10
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	9
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	8
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	8
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	8
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	8
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	8
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	8
Unlocking innovation potential: the non-linear effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation breadth	8

Which policy can better promote technology R&D? Subsidies or nationalization?	8
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	8
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	8
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	8
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	8
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
Tangible and intangible proximities in the access to Venture Capital by Innovative Start-up Companies	7
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	7
Homophilous founding teams and AI ventures’ innovation	7
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	6
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	6
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
Technological path-dependency in AI adoption: evidence from Italian firms	5
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	5
R&D and CEO turnover	4
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	4
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	4
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
Australian insights: labor quality, technology penetration, and economic growth	4
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	4
Digital infrastructure and regional economic disparities: Evidence from the broadband China strategy	4
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	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
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4