Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

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 …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a …This paper deals with flows of technology and information among people and institutions and the role of public support … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …

of clean technology-oriented market entrants and to better understand their role as adopters and innovators for … semantic representations of technologies. Mapping company and technology descriptions into a common vector space enables the …-up firms suggests that clean technology-oriented market entrants act as accelerators of technical change: both by virtue of …