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autocatalytic trade cycles, which indicates that more innovation is produced in countries that are a part of these cycles. Using … recommendations. These conclusions strenghten existing literature but also add new insights to innovation policy and the pursuit of …
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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...
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After a period of convergence where many perceived the country as a success case, Portugal’s economic performance proved to be disappointing in the last decade. In this study we focus on the relationship between technology and economic catching-up in order to answer to two major questions: (i)...
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assets for regional competitiveness and innovation. In recent years, these kinds of assets are being more considered in … paper we discuss the role of environmental resources in regional innovation policies. We begin by relating environmental … resources in regional development. Next we deal with the relationship between regional competitive advantages and innovation …
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The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European … innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at … uncovering firms’ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries’ innovation capability has been …
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The development of economic activity and the rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent decades has prompted a great deal of research into the phenomenon of multinational companies. A vast amount of empirical literature on FDI catalogues a long list of determinants that try to explain...
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The role of multinational firms in the world economy is widely recognized. Multinationals’ activities produce various effects in the host countries, particularly in areas such as: economic growth, technology and innovatory capacity, employment, market structure, performance and business...
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research uses the concept of issue-based net to open new avenues to understand collective action in the context of innovation … activities, specifically by analyzing a case study of an innovation-based net in the automotive industry. Two main objectives are … focuses on how issue-based nets emerge and evolve in situations of innovation, specifically, what kind of structure and …
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a model of innovation and learning that incorporates explicitly the need for a …
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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 …
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