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 …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite … career-concern model allows for complementarity. Empirically, we reject substitution effects. Second, CEOs are less likely to …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …