OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Economics of Innovation and New Technology is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Exuberance by design? Hyping cryptocurrencies markets through token underpricing	59
Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports	31
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	27
The Oscar goes to … robots or humans? Competition in a directed technical change model with monetary policy	24
Two faces of failure in innovation: a multinomial logit approach	20
R&D and CEO turnover	14
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	13
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	13
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	13
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	10
The diffusion of renewable energy production in European countries: the role of incentives	9
Firm patenting and types of innovation. An empirical investigation on patenting determinants in developing countries	8
Structural holes in networks of cross-organizational R&D teams	8
‘With no siblings, but with a home’: Single Patent-code Inventions (SPIs) and regional technological diversification	8
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	8
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	8
Mapping research on digital innovation in the health sector: a bibliometric approach	7
Cobb–Douglas R&D production function, appropriability and opportunity: effects on R&D, technological progress and knowledge sharing	7
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	6
IPO underpricing and corporate innovation: evidence from China	5
Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?	5
R&D lags in economic models	5
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	5
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	5
The long-term effects of R&D subsidies on firm performance: evidence from a regression discontinuity design	5

Agglomeration, recombinant innovation and the role of market reforms in a transitioning China	5
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	5
The impact of biomedical innovation on the disability of elderly Medicare recipients, 2013–2019	5
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	5
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	5
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	5
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	4
The upheaval years: a literature review on firms’ digitalization new era	4
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	4
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	4
Licensing of a product innovation by an outside innovator to a Stackelberg duopoly	4
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	4
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	4
Is learning by exporting technology specific? Evidence from Chinese firms	3
Mission-oriented R&D and growth of Japan 1988–2016: a comparison with private and public R&D	3
Are Robots stealing jobs? Empirical evidence from 10 developing countries	3
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	3
Impact of the combination intensity and balance of patent policy on firm patent quality	3
Financing small and innovative firms during COVID-19	3
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	3
Are Robots, Software, ICT and physical capital related to productivity? A panel quantile approach	3
North–South trade, technology diffusion, and uneven development	3
Business model experimentation in SMEs: the application of a dual scaling technique	3
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	3
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	3
Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation: corrigendum	3
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	3
Firm age and loan financing with patents as collateral of Chinese startups: the roles of innovations and experience	3
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	3
Will renewal fee reduction introduce low-quality patents? Evidence from patents endorsed LOR in the UK	3
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	2
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	2
Explaining differences in the returns to R&D in Argentina: the role of contextual factors	2
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	2
International competitiveness and innovation dynamics in the European automotive industry: a creative, self-reinforcing and greening relation	2
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	2
Is a firm’s productivity level affected by its number and types of innovation cooperation partners?	2
Obituary	2
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	2
Monopolistic price-setting behavior of information technology firms	2
A Schumpeterian approach to entry barrier and firm profitability: cycle time of technology	2
The uneven role of users in service innovation performance	2
Non-fungible token (NFT) markets on the Ethereum blockchain: temporal development, cointegration and interrelations	2
Complementarities in the sourcing, use and exploitation of managerial and technological innovations	2
Consumer environmental awareness and green R&D subsidy policy under Cournot–Bertrand comparisons	2
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	2
A lasting connection: colonial ties and scientific capabilities in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	1
Call for papers: special issue on ‘innovation and strategic autonomy for competitiveness’	1
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	1

Automation-skill complementarity: the returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption	1
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	1
Innovation and firm performance: influence of ownership and professionalization	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	1
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	1
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	1
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	1
Institutional investors and the moral hazards of technology investment: Evidence from China	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	1
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	1
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	1
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	1
Labour-augmenting technical change data for alternative elasticities of substitution: growth, slowdown, and distribution dynamics	1
Implementation of digital twins as a tool for increasing the efficiency of business operations	1
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	1
How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	1
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	1
Innovation and employment growth in developing countries: the role of market structure	1
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	1
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	1
Previous intrapreneurship experience as a determinant of entrepreneurial activity and performance	1
Does urban agglomeration affect innovation convergence: evidence from China	1
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	1
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	1