and unemployment in Portugal. …

Portugal is characterized by a huge decline in the birth rate, which is a phenomenon that requires - or rather, should … number of births in Portugal considerably varies according to the month to which it relates. The evolution of seasonality in …

The goal of this paper is to test for the presence of long memory in final energy demand in Portugal. Our findings … suggest the presence of long memory in aggregate and disaggregate energy demand in Portugal. All fractional …

Alentejo (Portugal). This fact makes it relevant: (i) to measure the 'distance', in terms of those indicators, between the …

Portugal, USA, European Union and EuroZone as well as on some categories of aggregate consumption in Portugal. By the use of a … European Union and Euro Zone) is more persistent than in the USA and in Portugal. In particular, the relatively lower degree of … persistence shown by the consumption in Portugal can be beneficial for the effectiveness of the countercyclical fiscal and …

Portugal is characterised by a noteworthy decline in fertility, which is a phenomenon that requires some intervention … careful observation of the data on the number of births in Portugal indicates that there months where the number of births is …

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …, knowledge generation, innovation, education and technological entrepreneurship. …Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic …