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 …

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 …