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New solutions are more and more needed due to the fact that new trends in technology, communication, global knowledge, new managerial approaches, building new types of partnerships, and other changing conditions in business and life create totally different situations and cause various problems. All these accompanying phenomena have impact on development of people and their skills and it is completely different than few years ago. The authors of this paper bring their own point of view on managerial skills for innovation support. They try to look at current chosen research trends within this topic and come to particular conclusions from their current research in innovation management. All changes and shifts cause new situations and it is necessary to adjust to them. One of the verified tools how to be prepared for these changes and how to react is the never ending process of education; it means long-life education and gaining new knowledge and innovation skills.

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Acknowledgements

This article is part of the KEGA project No. 030STU-4/2018 called “E-platform for Improving Collaboration among Universities and Industrial Enterprises in the Area of Education“ and within project scheme Interreg Danube Transnational Programme, project with title „Enhance skills and competences to boost material innovations and eco innovations in automotive industry“. The article is also part of VEGA project No. 2/0077/19 with title “Working Competencies in the Context of Industry 4.0 Development“ and H2020 project with No. 873 134 “Linking science and innovation for gender equality“.

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    Vladimír Švač & Dagmar Cagáňová

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Švač, V., Cagáňová, D. Managerial Skills for Innovation Support. Mobile Netw Appl 25, 925–931 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-020-01517-3

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