In general, innovation expertise refers to the individual ability to generate innovations. Expertise and personnel skills are particularly important for the successful design of innovation processes (see Hardt, Felfe & Hermann 2011). Expertise is an essential prerequisite for dealing with the company's problems and challenges in a technically sound manner. Without sufficient expertise , it is not possible to identify links to existing solutions and assess the feasibility of new ideas. Equally necessary is personnel competence, which is characterised in innovation processes by a critical, open and questioning attitude as well as a creative and independent approach to existing solutions, routines and, in particular, knowledge. These individual perspectives on knowledge and knowledge acquisition processes are modelled in psychology under the term "epistemic beliefs". They have an action-guiding function, are domain- and topic-specific and describe what an individual (e.g. a manager) understands by knowledge, which characteristics they assign to knowledge and how knowledge acquisition takes place from their perspective.