businesses; an increasing trend in the number of innovation contests launched annually in Portugal; high rates of rotation of the …Numerous initiatives of different nature have taken place in Portugal over the recent years aiming at raising … consciousness of the importance and advantages of innovation and entrepreneurship, persuading businesspeople to place innovation as …

In a report from 2008 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development came to the conclusion that Portugal is … development index for Portugal at the NUTS III level, based on the methodology of the Human Development Index (HDI) from the …

The objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of persistence of final energy demand in Portugal. Our results … fact that final energy demand is highly persistent is good news in that environmental policies in Portugal can be …

2004" in Portugal and by the programme "Des Projektbezogenen Personenaustauschs (PPP) 2004 mit Portugal" in Germany. …

. Instead, the objective of our paper is to analyse the evolution of consumer confidence in Portugal and examine which factors …

The objectives of this paper are twofold – first we discuss innovation in the service sector, especially in tourism …. Secondly, we apply the diagnostic test of the integrated model of innovation (Sarkar 2005, 2007) to present the results of an … innovation strategies pursued to compare similarities and differences according to the geographical localizations of the firms in …

Today, innovation is present in the discourse of politicians and business leaders. They see innovation as a positive … innovative practices through incentives and innovation policies. Several economic and sociological studies have shown that … innovations. In this sense, we will consider innovation public policies effects at Portuguese companies and how they take …

the sustainability of the innovation processes, knowledge production and diffusion, which take place inside small and … its correlation to innovation dynamics in small and medium-sized regions. In particular, we focus on the systematization …), until the modern theories of business clusters and innovation systems. These frameworks constitute the basis of an approach …

paper is the first where the history of the development of tractors is presented in the fundamental context of innovation …