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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	70
R&D lags in economic models	29
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	26
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	26
The complementary effects of environmental policy and oil prices on innovation: evidence from OECD countries	15
The increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour: a repeated cross-country investigation	14
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	14
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	13
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	11
Obituary	11
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	10
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	9
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	8
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	8
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	8
High-tech trade as determinant of the US bilateral trade balance	7
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	7
Coevolution of technical change and income inequality in developed and developing countries	7
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D with spillovers under consumer-friendly firms	7
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	7
Green knowledge production functions with latent group structures in the presence of human capital spillovers and fiscal policies	6
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	6
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	6
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	6
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	6

More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	6
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	6
Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	6
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	5
The role of socio-historic factors and income inequality in global innovation	5
Characterizing Spanish deindustrialization in a context of international productive fragmentation: a subsystem approach	5
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	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
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	4
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	4
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
Business model experimentation in SMEs: the application of a dual scaling technique	4
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	4
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	4
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	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
Innovation and skill premium	3
Assessing the impact of digital technology diffusion policies. Evidence from Italy	3
Cross-industry innovation for sustainable repositioning through cluster collaboration	3
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	3
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	3
Labour-augmenting technical change data for alternative elasticities of substitution: growth, slowdown, and distribution dynamics	3
Beyond productivity, does the adoption of agricultural technologies improve food consumption and reduce poverty? Empirical evidence from Benin	3
Private R&D, environmental policy, and greenhouse gas emissions	3
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	3
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	3
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	3
A lasting connection: colonial ties and scientific capabilities in sub-Saharan Africa	3
From experimentation to scaling: what shapes the funnel of AI adoption?	3
Can the development of digital finance stimulate enterprise innovation? Empirical evidence from China	3
Automation-skill complementarity: the returns to soft skills in different stages of technology adoption	3
Synergistic governance and innovation: the positive effect of cross-holding partners	3
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	3
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	2
The role of information technology and workplace organization in firm productivity: evidence from Spanish firms	2
4.0 Technological transformations: heterogeneous effects on regional growth	2
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	2
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	2
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	2
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	2
R&D investment and network effects: A dynamic model of the search engine market	2
The impact of automation on employment and its social implications: evidence from Chile	2

Reputational impact on startup accelerator’s information disclosure and performance	2
Subsidising innovation outside or within firms’ existing knowledge bases: which is best for radical innovation?	2
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	2
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	2
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	2
Complementarity between product and process innovation in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Gender differences among innovators: a patent analysis of stars	2
A composite innovation factor based on the constrained MAR model	2
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	2
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	2
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	2
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	1
Previous intrapreneurship experience as a determinant of entrepreneurial activity and performance	1
Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports	1
Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation	1
CSR and corporate science	1
Generic technology R&D decision with technology spillover, cost difference, and bargaining power under oligopoly competition	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	1
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	1
Decarbonisation and new path development in the German lignite energy generation industry	1
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	1
The impact of R&D incentives and sectoral knowledge stocks on R&D outcomes	1
Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC	1
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	1
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	1
Sustainable energy transition, knowledge co-creation and trade: the case of EU residential energy efficiency	1
Explaining differences in the returns to R&D in Argentina: the role of contextual factors	1
Independent and major equity market and commodity return sources around the time of hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling revolution: a differences-in-decompositions approach	1
Digital transition in a turbulent world: European regional growth opportunities in 17 years' time	1
The long-term effects of R&D subsidies on firm performance: evidence from a regression discontinuity design	1
Firm survival and innovation: direct and indirect effects of knowledge for SMEs	1
R&D timing when CSR aware firms engage in a research joint venture	1
What determines initial coin offering success: a cross-country study	1
How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	1