to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our paper presents and systematically investigates these …Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past two decades, produced various … firms' contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts. For the purpose of this paper, innovation …

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over the last two decades, produced various … firms located throughout the country, and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation …. In our paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation process referred to above. To provide a …

obstacles and consequences. For the purpose of this paper, innovation has served as a major contributor for the previously … and explores those innovation determinants that have been detected by region. The analysis defines a set of regionalized … firms' behavioural patterns towards innovation. Methodologically, the Logistic Biplot is applied to an extended sample of …

innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is … (leading to Voronoi mappings) in order to design a systematic typology of innovation clusters in the main regions in Portugal …. A striking result is the significant difference in innovation systems at regional level in Portugal. The paper is …

size composition of firms changes, how innovation patterns (patents) change, as well as locational decisions of firms (NJ … observation, and that the growth advantage of small pharma firms increases after the 1980's as the process of innovation becomes … more guided and scale intensive and as small firm innovation becomes more persistent. Furthermore, at the end of the 1970's …

The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms …

We relate innovation to sales growth for incumbent firms in high-tech sectors. A firm, on average, experiences only … returns to innovation are highly skewed and that growth rates distributions are heavy-tailed, it may be misleading to use … that innovation is of crucial importance for a handful of superstar fast-growth firms. We also discuss policy implications …

A puzzling evidence stemming from the applied research on growth and innovation is that successful innovations do not … between innovation and sales growth rates. Exploiting a unique and original database comprising detailed information on …