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Knowledge spillovers and economic performance of firms located in depressed areas: does geographical proximity matter?
Araújo, Liliana; Silva, Sandra T.; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Extensive literature on the contribution of knowledge spillovers to growth and development at the regional level exists but these studies mainly features regions characterised by a high level of economic development. This paper assesses the importance of knowledge spillovers for firms located in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634139
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Identifying the intellectual scientific basis of the Economics and Management of Innovation Management area
Silva, José Miguel; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
Last decades observed a considerable increase of literature devoted to innovation-related studies. This area is … characterized by fruitful interdisciplinary and there is not a single discipline that embraces all aspects of innovation. From the … Economics and Management of Innovation discipline presents a lower degree of autonomy as its dependency upon broader and core …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476177
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Emergent and declining themes in the Economics and Management of Innovation scientific area over the past three decades
Teixeira, Aurora A.C.; Silva, José Miguel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
there are already some excellent attempts to provide a survey in the Economics and Management of Innovation area, these are … information, we characterize, in a quantitative way, the published literature in innovation area. Based on the 1047 abstracts of … the articles published between 1974 and 2007 in the innovation area’s ‘seed journal’ we observed that the themes that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008484496
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Economic growth, human capital and structural change: an empirical analysis
Queirós, Anabela; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014
Human capital is identified as one of the main determinants of economic growth and plays an important role in the technological progress of countries. Nevertheless, existing studies have to some extent neglected the importance of human capital on growth via the interaction it can have with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071605
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Determinants of international technology transfer: an empirical analysis of the Enterprise Europe Network
Araújo, Ana Carina; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
Given that science and technology are inductors of economic development, the emergence of a knowledge-based economy creates an overlay of communications and expectations that have led to institutional restructuring based on innovative capacities. While the literature tends to concentrate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634119
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Are Academic Spin-Offs necessarily New Technology-Based firms?
Cunha, Dina; Silva, Sandra T.; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) have gained increasing economic relevance, supported by the recognition that they play an important role in national economies in the appearance of both new, high technology products and of new and emerging industries. Despite their economic importance, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634141
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Determinants of innovation performance of Portuguese companies: an econometric analysis by type of innovation and sector with a particular focus on Services
Santos, Lilian; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2013
The acknowledged importance of innovation and the increasingly decisive role played by the service sector make … innovation an issue of major relevance to the economy. Using a sample of 6593 companies that answered the Community Innovation … Survey 2008, we assessed the determinants of innovation of Portuguese companies by comparing the service sector and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643581
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One size does not fit all… An economic development perspective on the asymmetric impact of Patents on R&D
Almeida, Alexandre; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2008
Innovation is the building block of competitive advantages and thus economic policies are increasingly focused on … evidence sustains that innovation policies be adjusted to countries development stages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031580
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Open Innovation in firms located in an intermediate technology developed country
Lopes, Mariana; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009
Open Innovation is a flow of inputs and outputs of knowledge and technology which favours, at the firm level, the … acceleration of the innovation process, as well as the establishment and penetration of firms in new markets. This type of … innovation incorporates technological innovation from internal and external sources, as well as different ways to access markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059586
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Open Innovation in firms located in an intermediate technology developed country
Lopes, Mariana; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - INESC Porto, Unidade de Inovação e Transferência de … - 2009
Open Innovation is a flow of inputs and outputs of knowledge and technology which favours, at the firm level, the … acceleration of the innovation process, as well as the establishment and penetration of firms in new markets. This type of … innovation incorporates technological innovation from internal and external sources, as well as different ways to access markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077827