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 in delivery of public services is considered a rare phenomenon especially in health care services. It is considered even more remote when these services are delivered by arms of the government or public agencies. However high quality public services can be delivered if the contextual...