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 …

Portugal in the period 1998-2009, we find that women have a lower probability of upward mobility and a higher probability of …

less industrialized member states of the European Union, specifically the case of Portugal, based on the report for the … considerations related to the socioeconomic factors affecting the prospects and conditions for APS in Portugal. APS is defined as a … stress the trends for the implementation and development of anthropocentric production systems in Portugal. …

innovating on its own technology level -- innovation being more skilled-intensive than imitation. I develop a growth model based … that there exists a constant level of skilled and unskilled human capital in the imitation-only and innovation-only regimes …. In the imitation-innovation regime stock of skilled human capital rises whereas that of unskilled human capital falls in …

Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …