Carolina Castaldi

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Carolina Castaldi is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Carolina Castaldi has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 27 papers in Strategy and Management and 21 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Carolina Castaldi's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (17 papers), Intellectual Property and Patents (15 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (14 papers). Carolina Castaldi is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (17 papers), Intellectual Property and Patents (15 papers) and Economic Growth and Productivity (14 papers). Carolina Castaldi collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Carolina Castaldi's co-authors include Bart Los, Koen Frenken, Meindert Flikkema, Ard‐Pieter de Man, M. J. Janssen, Alexander S. Alexiev, Giovanni Dosi, Floortje Alkemade, Armando Calabrese and Marco S. Giarratana and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Carolina Castaldi

62 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carolina Castaldi Netherlands	21	945	544	405	298	184	66	1.7k
Spyros Arvanitis Switzerland	23	1.1k 1.2×	955 1.8×	368 0.9×	255 0.9×	135 0.7×	115	2.0k
Francesco Rentocchini Italy	20	556 0.6×	546 1.0×	427 1.1×	270 0.9×	109 0.6×	49	1.3k
Xielin Liu China	17	833 0.9×	786 1.4×	391 1.0×	106 0.4×	166 0.9×	68	1.5k
Martin Woerter Switzerland	25	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	424 1.0×	433 1.5×	98 0.5×	73	2.4k
Nola Hewitt‐Dundas United Kingdom	19	993 1.1×	1.0k 1.9×	656 1.6×	158 0.5×	216 1.2×	55	1.9k
Silvia Rita Sedita Italy	23	601 0.6×	845 1.6×	482 1.2×	251 0.8×	186 1.0×	65	1.7k
Bernd Ebersberger Austria	23	1.1k 1.2×	850 1.6×	409 1.0×	94 0.3×	219 1.2×	71	1.8k
Cees van Beers Netherlands	18	720 0.8×	766 1.4×	379 0.9×	179 0.6×	72 0.4×	51	1.8k
Helena Lenihan Ireland	18	642 0.7×	382 0.7×	218 0.5×	109 0.4×	164 0.9×	55	1.3k
Nick von Tunzelmann United Kingdom	19	871 0.9×	893 1.6×	555 1.4×	105 0.4×	313 1.7×	39	1.8k

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Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2025). Inclusive Intellectual Property Rights? The Case of Collective Trademarks. The Journal of Development Studies. 62(3). 501–518.

Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2025). European regions transitioning to green markets: the role of related capabilities and public procurement policies. Research Policy. 55(2). 105374–105374. 1 indexed citations

Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2025). Beyond business as usual? How organisations navigate tensions between circular economy and intellectual property right strategies. Industry and Innovation. 1–32. 2 indexed citations

Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2024). Servitization as a strategy for diffusing radical technologies: An analysis of U.S. top corporate R&D investors. Research Policy. 54(1). 105123–105123. 3 indexed citations

Flikkema, Meindert, et al.. (2024). When do trademarks improve the measurement of innovation? An analysis of innovations from Dutch SMEs. Science and Public Policy. 51(5). 923–938. 7 indexed citations

Flikkema, Meindert, et al.. (2023). Why use or forgo formal and informal appropriation mechanisms? A qualitative study of sustainable innovations from small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises. Business Strategy and the Environment. 33(3). 1937–1961. 4 indexed citations

Herrmann, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Open innovation in nascent ventures: Does openness influence the speed of reaching critical milestones?. Technovation. 124. 102732–102732. 15 indexed citations

Castaldi, Carolina & Kyriakos Drivas. (2023). Relatedness, Cross-relatedness and Regional Innovation Specializations: An Analysis of Technology, Design, and Market Activities in Europe and the US. Economic Geography. 99(3). 253–284. 26 indexed citations

Castaldi, Carolina. (2021). Sustainable innovation and intellectual property rights: friends, foes or perfect strangers?. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2019). A taxonomy of firm-level IPR application practices to inform policy debates. Econstor (Econstor). 2 indexed citations

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Janssen, M. J., Carolina Castaldi, & Alexander S. Alexiev. (2018). In the vanguard of openness: which dynamic capabilities are essential for innovative KIBS firms to develop?. Industry and Innovation. 25(4). 432–457. 29 indexed citations

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Janssen, M. J. & Carolina Castaldi. (2018). Services, innovation, capabilities, and policy: Toward a synthesis and beyond. Science and Public Policy. 45(6). 863–874. 12 indexed citations

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Faber, Jan, et al.. (2016). Venture capitalist-induced relational fit and new venture performance: a Dutch biotech comparative case analysis. Venture Capital. 18(3). 237–256. 6 indexed citations

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Janssen, M. J., Carolina Castaldi, & Alexander S. Alexiev. (2015). Dynamic capabilities for service innovation: conceptualization and measurement. R and D Management. 46(4). 797–811. 94 indexed citations

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Flikkema, Meindert, et al.. (2015). Explaining the Trademark-Innovation Linkage: the Role of Patents and Trademark Filing Strategies.. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2015(1). 16624–16624. 20 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2011). Path dependence in technologies and organizations : a concise guide. Econstor (Econstor). 201104. 100–103. 3 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2011). Strategic purchasing and innovation: a relational view. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 23(9). 983–1000. 28 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina & Giovanni Dosi. (2008). Technical Change and Economic Growth: Some Lessons from Secular Patterns and Some Conjectures on the Current Impact of ICT Technology. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina & Giovanni Dosi. (2004). The Grip of History and the Scope for Novelty: Some Results and Open Questions on Path Dependence in Economic Processes. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Castaldi, Carolina, et al.. (2004). Technological Learning, Policy Regimes and Growth in a `Globalized' Economy: General Patterns and the Latin American Experience. Econstor (Econstor). 76(9). 739–40. 4 indexed citations

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