efficiency as globalization was setting up. In this paper, we shed light on the increasing role which innovation is called to … throughout which R&D become embedded in nowadays societies, evidence clearly reveals how innovation strategies are to be found so …

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …

people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast …