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 …

Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and … to explore the determinants and features of the innovation developed by service enterprises. Many empirical studies that … form the basis of recent literature on innovation in services have proved the existence of a wide range of innovation …