The starting point of this paper is the interrelation between learning, innovation, regional and local development in … the 'Knowledge or Learning Economy'. Along with the traditional economic factors that have been considered in the … environment and the characteristics of some information and knowledge intensive firms, supported by the Regional Center for …

industrial firms. The correlation between innovation and exports has been widely presented in the literature. Innovative firms … increase market leadership and monopolistic advantages. This study examines the relationship between innovation and exports in …

the Innovation Sector Funds, managed by the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI). The main objective of … United States of America's systems of support to the research and innovation. The study identified 1,893 research projects in …

This paper aims to analyze, from a legal perspective, the public policies of Science, Technology and Innovation offered … by the Brazilian government, more specifically, the Innovation Act (Lei de Inovação), in order to verify the … comparative method, this research seeks to answer, preliminarily, the following questions: a) What is innovation? b) The State …

knowledge in production processes. The purpose of this paper is to supply evidence favoring the hypothesis that innovation …In the last decades one of the main engines of foreign trade growth has been innovation, the process of embedding … between innovation and the likelihood of firms becoming exporters. Based on Heckman procedure, we also find evidence that …

therefore the dynamics of innovation in agriculture. Since the Protection of Plant Varieties Law (1997), the mechanisms of … knowledge and technological innovations; iii) keep a source of strategic information; iv) attract and promote investments in …

the data from the Innovation Survey 2011, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). We … large (500 or more employees). The paper not only analyzed the innovation rates of such groups, but the degree of …

production with less environmental impact. This research aims to evaluate the process of technological innovation and integrated … of adequate planning and control of integrated production projects, indicating the need for management innovation as well …

characteristics of a cluster having as its basethe elements: cooperation, leadership and innovation. For this, it is reviewed on … theeconomic literature the fundamental theoretical concepts of firm, innovation andcompetition, presenting at the last section the …