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 …

framework and a test on innovation data from several European cities. This framework is mainly built on the product life …

necessary to move an innovation to market, without any guarantee of product reimbursement, the financial risk is very high … facilitate better decision making, clearer trust as the innovation changes hands up the value chain, and eventually better and …