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

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …