efficiency as globalization was setting up. In this paper we shed light on the increasing role which innovation is called to … throughout which R&D become embedded in nowadays societies, evidence clearly reveals how innovation strategies are to be found so …

scientific and technological knowledge from manufacturing, to the marketing and the strategic management of companies that act as … protagonists of these processes. Globalization of markets is inter-connected with intensive incorporation of knowledge in economy …. This study on “R&D, Innovation and Employment Creation” for the Portuguese Observatory of Employment and Vocational …

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …

have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have … application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm … previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect), but firms losing a knowledge worker are also shown to …

-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …

characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …

characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …