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 …

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 …

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 …

otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while … significant decline in follow-on innovation. …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

given by different sponsors (the federal government, the Länder and the European Union). Recent theory stresses the … importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …