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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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
Green R&D cooperation and environmental policies in network industries	25
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	19
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	17
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	16
Building a scientific community? The WOEPS workshop and the evolution of the economics of science, 1994–2023	15
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	14
R&D lags in economic models	14
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	13
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	13
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	12
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	11
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	11
Does participation in technology standard-setting promote Chinese firms’ technological innovation performance?	11
Obituary	11
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	10
Can strong intellectual property rights protection induce an innovator to shirk?	9
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	9
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	9
The role of carbon emission trading system in driving firm-level innovation and cross-region pollution	9
Unlocking innovation potential: the non-linear effect of digital transformation on firms’ innovation breadth	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	8
Strategic environmental corporate social responsibility with improvements in pollutant reduction technology: Cournot vs. Bertrand	8

Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	8
Introduction: innovation, knowledge dynamics, and the economics of science – A memorial issue in honor of Paul A. David	8
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	8
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	8
Which policy can better promote technology R&D? Subsidies or nationalization?	8
Gender disparities in Chinese patenting activities: females increasingly participate but collaborate less	8
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	7
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	7
Cross-ownership and cooperative R&D under research subsidy policy	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	7
Tangible and intangible proximities in the access to Venture Capital by Innovative Start-up Companies	7
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
Spatiotemporal dynamics of creative performance and innovation capacity in Europe: a multidimensional perspective	6
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	6
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	6
Broadband competition, network effects and FTTx diffusion in Latin America	6
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	6
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
Digital infrastructure and regional economic disparities: Evidence from the broadband China strategy	5
Technological path-dependency in AI adoption: evidence from Italian firms	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	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
Gender homophily and diversity in patenting: academic and corporate assignees in inventor’s collaborations	5
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	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
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4
When machines pay workers more: AI adoption and labor's rising share in Chinese manufacturing	4
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	4
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	4
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
Australian insights: labor quality, technology penetration, and economic growth	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	4
Strategic sectors and essential jobs: a taxonomy for industrial policies	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
International collaborations and the patenting intensity of US inventors	4
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	4
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	4