Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … of using data on R&D, we separate the knowledge creating process into 'R' and 'D'. This data stems from R&D surveys of …

how knowledge management influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge … important for a firm to carefully select the techniques of knowledge management depending on the goals in its innovation … factors influencing the economic growth of a company. In the last decades, the awareness of knowledge as an important driver …

’ innovation activities. Employing data from a representative sample of German firms, we find consistently with real options theory … that negatively affected firms substantially reduced R&D and other innovation expenditures not only in the first year of … the pandemic (2020), but also in the two subsequent years indicating ’Long–Covid’ effects on innovation. Furthermore …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company … leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a … innovative sectors in the economy. They support innovation in a variety of other sectors through creative inputs, such as ideas … for new products (i.e. innovation content), supplementary products and services (such as software) or marketing support …

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known …

firm's products. Our econometric analysis uses data of two waves of the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS …

facilitate innovation through knowledge spillovers and other localization advantages. Public innovation support programs may …The paper analyzes how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation … alternative cluster measures which capture industry, technology and knowledge dimensions of clusters. Regardless of the measure …