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 …

The concept of Open Innovation (OI) has breathed new life into both empirical research and industry practice concerned … stories. A unbalanced focus on successes leads to open innovation imperatives and the conclusion that, for most firms … relationships between innovation openness and its effects on project abandonment and delays. Using survey data from Belgium, we find …

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …

at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to … new business models. This paper analyses the extent to which the use of AI contributes to the innovation performance of … firms. Based on firm-level data from the German part of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2018, we examine the …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …