knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

consequently a break with the prevailing model of society and learning and knowledge sharing within modern societies. In the first …, Vocational Training and – desirably – Innovation in that regulation process . We stress that sustainable development imply an …

qualification levels. Either by career requirements or in reason of one's seeking to improve knowledge and apply to a better job …

into Law, in Portugal, the extension of compulsory education until the 12th grade being one of the main goals. Given huge …

. Universities are not adopting so far any meaningful organization’s or syllabuses’ innovation in order to specifically address “new …

The underlying theoretical assumption of this paper is that if firms can imitate an innovation at a cost that is … substantially below the cost of the innovator to carry out the innovation, there may be little or no incentive to carry out the … innovation. Cost and time required for imitating new products and processes have an important effect on the incentives for …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledge emerges and through which it … is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a network cannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge … views networks as constructs aimed at the coordination of knowledge; accordingly, network structure is an emerging property …