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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 …
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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 …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multi-sector endogenous growth model allowing for industry specific parameters in the production functions for output and knowledge, and in consumer preferences. We find that long run industry...
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in curbing viral transmission. Such a strategy integrates corporate innovation, government decision-making, citizen … participation, and community coordination with big data analytics. This article explores how key stakeholders in an open innovation …
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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 …
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To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...
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