Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

sustainable knowledge-based living and working environment in Portugal. Most initiatives under the Digital Cities and Regions … technologies (ICTs) by public administrations across the EU. Portugal has been strategically involved in a catching-up process with … high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the …

knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) to regional innovation has emerged. Most of these papers adopt a national …There is a rich debate in the innovation literature about to what extent innovation has become an international (or … fact that knowledge is commonly tied to personal capabilities; it has a clear geographical component. In the case of …

sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

It has been shown that firms tend to develop different modes of innovation triggered by the relationship between … different types of knowledge and learning processes underpinning it. This paper aims at identifying different modes of business … innovation; second, relating them to firms' innovative and economic performance; and, analyzing the relationship between the …

further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social …