. New evidence is provided, based on a comprehensive, large-scale survey of technology-based firms located in Portugal … development for an economy like Portugal (lagging behind in terms of human capital stock, and seeming to have lost part of its …

an increasingly knowledge based economy and an important lever of social cohesion policy. However, existing studies …

exchanges among firms within a local innovation system. Each conceivable shape for the knowledge transfer relationship among … learning process in the presence of knowledge spillovers. We hypothesize two different functional specifications of spillover …

the chronological time variable, or the speed of knowledge accumulation along time, neglecting the nature of the … considerable simplification in literature by deriving, by construction, a measure of dynamic gains of knowledge following the … interplay of stock of scientific and technological knowledge and the flow of effort in R&D. This scheme is then applied to study …

public research investment thereby fostering regional economic development. That is because knowledge-based goods and … services are highly valuated by consumers and the TIF can increase the rate of innovation in the economy as a whole. Thus, the …&D projects are sponsored by public authorities as an effort to link universities to industrial innovation. This investigation …

The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European … innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at … uncovering firms’ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries’ innovation capability has been …