to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our paper presents and systematically investigates these …Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

Creative capacity in the field of regional sciences means the capability of any region to generate knowledge and thus … to achieve innovation and the diffusion of the output of the innovative activity while obtaining the viability and … empirical evidences showed that rural region has a great potential capacity in terms of its five components viz. knowledge …

components of creative capacity, viz., knowledge, innovation, entrepreneurship and networks, in order to build a more … dynamics, i.e. tacit knowledge, cultural heritage and social and physical environment, as the main and basic measurement unit … for creative capacity analysis. Creative capacity, rural regions, innovation, sustainable competitive advantage …

The present paper addresses the dynamics of innovation, by extending the analysis beyond a static-economic perspective … relational capacities of institutions when they are innovative. Thereby, major characteristics in the networks of innovation are … identified. This investigation uses an extended set of private institutions and public organizations located in Portugal …

the region of the Algarve in Portugal. The use of the Algarve as a laboratory for testing this novel methodology relies on …