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 …

obstacles and consequences. For the purpose of this paper, innovation has served as a major contributor for the previously … and explores those innovation determinants that have been detected by region. The analysis defines a set of regionalized … firms' behavioural patterns towards innovation. Methodologically, the Logistic Biplot is applied to an extended sample of …

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 …

working on the auto components sector, established in the Northern Spain and Northern Portugal. We found firstly, that … innovativeness has two main dimensions, perfectly differentiated, the product-process innovation and the management innovation …; secondly that the structural capital dimensions influences differently each type of innovation capacity (innovativeness). We …

A Contribution for the Iden+tification of Indicators for the Evaluation of the Impact on Regional Innovation and … Development of an EU Program for University Research in the North of Portugal ABSTRACT Co-financed Programs by the European Union … have been with no doubt relevant to contribute to some endeavours of Research and Development in the North of Portugal …

Entrepreneurship, Growth and Innovation provides comprehensive insight into the economics of entrepreneurship, claiming … determinants and the effects of both entrepreneurship and innovation without neglecting the functioning of the inducement … some of the best known scholars in the field of the economics of entrepreneurship and innovation investigate whether the …