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After a period of convergence where many perceived the country as a success case, Portugal’s economic performance proved to be disappointing in the last decade. In this study we focus on the relationship between technology and economic catching-up in order to answer to two major questions: (i)...
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technological innovation, and to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a …
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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 …
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between human capital and innovation capability. These estimates seem to confirm that human capital and indigenous innovation … human capital, through innovation, emerges here as critical, showing that a reasonably higher stock of human capital is … important to enable a country to reap the benefits of its innovation indigenous efforts. …
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Abstract: This paper scrutinises Schumpeter’s conceptions of process and reproduced order. In order to facilitate a detailed understanding of his position, his work is examined from different angles, in three successive ‘approximations’. The coherence, or mismatch, of Schumpeter’s...
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This paper discusses various meanings of rationality distinguished by Schumpeter – as well as related concepts like rationalisation – and connects them with widely remarked tensions or dilemmas in his substantive works. The well-known contrast between Schumpeter’s commitment to equilibrium...
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research uses the concept of issue-based net to open new avenues to understand collective action in the context of innovation … activities, specifically by analyzing a case study of an innovation-based net in the automotive industry. Two main objectives are … focuses on how issue-based nets emerge and evolve in situations of innovation, specifically, what kind of structure and …
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autocatalytic trade cycles, which indicates that more innovation is produced in countries that are a part of these cycles. Using … recommendations. These conclusions strenghten existing literature but also add new insights to innovation policy and the pursuit of …
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The purpose of this paper is to develop a model of innovation and learning that incorporates explicitly the need for a …
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Extensive literature on the contribution of knowledge spillovers to growth and development at the regional level exists but these studies mainly features regions characterised by a high level of economic development. This paper assesses the importance of knowledge spillovers for firms located in...
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