Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … sectoral pattern of innovation and the distance of a country's industry to the global technological frontier. We explore these … dimensions based on longitudinal industry-level data from the Community Innovation Survey. We find that the demand on markets for …

Skills shortage has become a key policy issue in highly developed and innovation-oriented economies, with non …-negligible consequences on firms' innovation activities. We investigate the effect of skills shortage on firms' innovation openness, which is … considered to be one of the key drivers of innovation performance. We hypothesize that scarcity of personnel causes firms to …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …