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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unanticipated consequences: concerns about the sale of taxpayer-funded technologies to foreign entities	75
R&D lags in economic models	32
The unequal implications of Industry 4.0 adoption: evidence on productivity growth and convergence across Europe	31
The effects of environmental innovations on labor productivity: how does it pay to be green	30
Evidence on an endogenous growth model with public R&D	16
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
How do local government fiscal revenue targets affect green technology innovation in China?	14
Obituary	14
How localised are knowledge spillovers? Evidence from microgeographic data on UK patent citations	12
Fueling firm productivity: the role of institutional quality and innovation in a developing economy	11
Optimizing effects of firms’ technological and non-technological processes on export-led innovation	10
The effect of external innovation on firm employment	10
The interdependence of intellectual property rights and sales in the manufacturing industry: evidence from the triangle of patents, trademarks, and sales	9
Research and development expenditure gap: does women’s political empowerment matter?	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
The U-shaped relationship between patent age and patent value: evidence from assigned patents in China	7
Financing patterns of working capital and physical investment: their effects on innovation and productivity	7
Cooperative and non-cooperative R&D with spillovers under consumer-friendly firms	7
Research on evolution of intellectual property collaborative governance strategies of multi-entities in open source community	7
Innovation, competition, and incomplete adoption of a superior technology	7
Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms	7
Input additionality of R&D tax reliefs: results from a panel LP-IV approach	6
Public support prevalence and innovation behavior. Uruguay 2007–2015	6

Innovative behavior of minorities, women, and Immigrants	6
More is less: multidisciplinarity and the dynamics of scientific knowledge	6
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
Impact of technological change on growth trajectory of India: a multivariate-BVAR analysis	5
Industrial designs and firm performance: evidence from publicly traded Canadian companies, 1990–2014	5
R&D and CEO turnover	5
Innovation-driven economic growth under global turbulence: how countries strengthen innovation systems to deal with threats	5
Forecasting innovative start-ups through automatic variable selection and MIDAS regressions	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
Are product and process innovations supermodular? Complementary returns to product and process innovations	5
The role of socio-historic factors and income inequality in global innovation	5
Breakthrough inventions in China: the role of intra- and inter-regional collaboration and local knowledge base	5
Female R&D teams and patents as quality signals in innovative firms	5
Dual use inventions: identification and characterization using patent data	5
The impact of factor tax structure on firm innovation: evidence from China	4
Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany	4
Impact of taxes on IP values and innovation	4
The impact of ultra-fast broadband on labor income: an event study approach	4
Influence of educational composition on firm innovation and performance	4
Environmental technology licensing by an outside innovator in a vertically differentiated duopoly	4
Business model experimentation in SMEs: the application of a dual scaling technique	4
Information asymmetry, risk aversion and R&D subsidies: effect-size heterogeneity and policy conundrums	4
Robots and labor regulation: a cross-country/cross-industry analysis	4
Adopting sustainable irrigation technologies in Italy: a study on the determinants of inter- and intra-farm diffusion	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
Cross-industry innovation for sustainable repositioning through cluster collaboration	3
Assessing the impact of digital technology diffusion policies. Evidence from Italy	3
4.0 Technological transformations: heterogeneous effects on regional growth	3
The value of Indian patents: an empirical analysis using citation lags approach	3
Homophilic relationships and innovative behavior	3
To diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance	3
Can the development of digital finance stimulate enterprise innovation? Empirical evidence from China	3
Beyond productivity, does the adoption of agricultural technologies improve food consumption and reduce poverty? Empirical evidence from Benin	3
Complementarity between product and process innovation in small and micro-enterprises in Johannesburg, South Africa	3
Innovation and skill premium	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
Private R&D, environmental policy, and greenhouse gas emissions	3
From experimentation to scaling: what shapes the funnel of AI adoption?	3
The role of information technology and workplace organization in firm productivity: evidence from Spanish firms	3
R&D investment and network effects: A dynamic model of the search engine market	3
Reconciling open science with technological sovereignty	3
When Matthew met Matilda: the Argentinean gender gap in the allocation of science and technology public grants	3
Innovation, asymmetric information and the capital structure of new firms	3
A composite innovation factor based on the constrained MAR model	2
Market valuation of international patenting using a real option approach: the moderating role of uncertainty	2
Synergy in environmental compliance, innovation and export on SMEs’ growth	2
Cross-ownership on R&D and social welfare in mixed oligopoly	2

How much is too much? Inter-city brokerage in ICT industry innovation networks	2
Determinants of inter-organizational cooperation in SMEs innovation	2
The impact of automation on employment and its social implications: evidence from Chile	2
The geographical component in firms’ perception of innovation barriers: the case of Ecuador	2
Takeovers and licensing in spatial competition	2
Family ownership, finance for innovation, and exports. Evidence from European micro and small firms	2
Patents, family, and size: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms	2
The nonlinear impact of FinTech on the real economic growth: evidence from China	2
Gender differences among innovators: a patent analysis of stars	2
The interplay between governance mechanisms of blockchain platforms	2
Subsidising innovation outside or within firms’ existing knowledge bases: which is best for radical innovation?	2
Is Schumpeter right? Fintech and economic growth	2
The role of the state and the intensification of R&D in China: evidence from large and medium-sized Chinese manufacturing firms	2
Explaining differences in the returns to R&D in Argentina: the role of contextual factors	2
CSR and corporate science	1
Do funding agencies select and enable novel research: evidence from ERC	1
The alienability of innovation: evidence from patent transfers	1
Homophily inertia and innovative activity: cross-country firm-level evidence	1
Determinants of innovation novelty: evidence from Australian administrative data	1
Digitalisation, institutions and governance, and diffusion: mechanisms and evidence	1
The diffusion of renewable energy production in European countries: the role of incentives	1
Evolutionary game analysis on the diffusion of general purpose technologies with government multiple supports	1
Inside the biotech: a dialogue between Rosenberg, Babbage, Smith, and Schumpeter	1
Digital transition in a turbulent world: European regional growth opportunities in 17 years' time	1
Decarbonisation and new path development in the German lignite energy generation industry	1
What determines initial coin offering success: a cross-country study	1
R&D timing when CSR aware firms engage in a research joint venture	1
Impact of technical barriers to trade measures on innovation – evidence from chinese manufacturing firms	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
Generic technology R&D decision with technology spillover, cost difference, and bargaining power under oligopoly competition	1
Cobb–Douglas R&D production function, appropriability and opportunity: effects on R&D, technological progress and knowledge sharing	1
The long-term effects of R&D subsidies on firm performance: evidence from a regression discontinuity design	1
The impact of R&D incentives and sectoral knowledge stocks on R&D outcomes	1
Sustainable energy transition, knowledge co-creation and trade: the case of EU residential energy efficiency	1
Previous intrapreneurship experience as a determinant of entrepreneurial activity and performance	1
Do deep regional trade agreements facilitate international research collaboration?	1
Patent infringement litigation, executive team risk appetite and corporate innovation	1
Effects of co-patenting across national boundaries on patent quality. An exploration in pharmaceuticals	1
Environmental technology licensing with multi-product competition in a vertically differentiated duopoly	1
Political failure: a missing piece in innovation policy analysis	1
Firm patenting and types of innovation. An empirical investigation on patenting determinants in developing countries	1
Firm survival and innovation: direct and indirect effects of knowledge for SMEs	1
Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation	1