Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … comparable small European economies. Further shifting the orientation of the economy to the external sector is vital for Portugal … to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …

Portugal has notably increased its international openness over recent decades, with exports’ share of GDP rising by 20 …

role of workplace training will be important. So too will be further measures that support the innovation capacity of the … business sector, including innovation policies that promote the absorptive capacity of firms and do not favour incumbents at …

– proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation … influencing the returns to new knowledge. The results establish an empirical link between R&D and patenting, as well as between … these measures of innovation intensity and MFP growth. Innovation-specific policies such as R&D tax incentives, direct …