This conceptual study explores the relationship between labor shortages in knowledge-intensive occupations, the … individual entrepreneurial choice, and strategic consequences for SMEs. Highly skilled individuals in knowledge-intense shortage …-employment, labor shortages for SMEs increase further. To overcome shortages of skilled labor, outsourcing of knowledge …

Innovation gilt als der Schlüssel zu Wirtschaftswachstum und in der modernen Ökonomie nimmt der Entrepreneur dabei die … Grundvoraussetzung für Innovation und Wachstum fördern. Speziell infolge der Banken- und Staatsschuldenkrise sieht Europa erneut …Innovation is regarded as the key to economic growth and entrepreneurs take a leading role in promoting innovation in …

professional experience and distinct human capital resources facilitating this step of innovation activity. …

Prior findings are inconclusive concerning the innovation activities of family SMEs when compared to non …-family counterparts. This study overcomes these shortcomings by analyzing specific determinants influencing the innovation output of … the innovation output continuously falls from generation to generation. …

replaced by other activities within the innovation process. We find that for realizing product innovations RnD is the most … important factor. Thereby the role of RnD is higher the more radical an innovation is. In contrast, process and non …

-induced adjustments are permanent or are reversed as the pandemic subsides. The result: innovation activities increased significantly …

In Germany there is considerably less innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) than in large companies …. The government's arrangements for promoting innovation provide only a limited corrective here, not least because they are … on R&D. If the EU's target of raising innovation intensity to 3 percent of GDP is to be achieved, however, policymakers …

seven aspects, the study focuses on the need for research and on obstacles to innovation when it comes to implementing … resources within the companies themselves are felt to present considerable obstacles to innovation. In its final chapter, the …

its various socioeconomic dimensions concludes that nanotechnology is rightly viewed as a key innovation. It can be used …