-based industries, there are only a few works concerned with R&D cooperation by low-tech firms, especially SMEs. Providing further and …

Portuguese SME, constituting therefore an important tool for political action. On the basis of the literature review and the …’: Experienced Medium Low-Tech firms; Low skill, Low-Tech firms; Young High-Tech firms) based on language skills, SME business … experience, foreign market dependency, introduction of organizational innovation, exporting to ‘High income countries’ and …

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 …

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 …

Last decades observed a considerable increase of literature devoted to innovation-related studies. This area is … characterized by fruitful interdisciplinary and there is not a single discipline that embraces all aspects of innovation. From the … Economics and Management of Innovation discipline presents a lower degree of autonomy as its dependency upon broader and core …

technological innovation, and to adopt and to implement efficiently technology from abroad. However, the role of human capital as a …

The concept of Regional Innovation System (RIS) builds upon an integrated perspective of innovation, acknowledging the … Parks in the building up of a Regional Innovation System, promoting the technological intensification of the economy, a more … innovation capability. We further stress the importance of science parks in signaling capabilities and hence attracting R …