efficiency as globalization was setting up. In this paper, we shed light on the increasing role which innovation is called to … throughout which R&D become embedded in nowadays societies, evidence clearly reveals how innovation strategies are to be found so …

analysis of Portugal and Spain, using data from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS). …

, concluding that it reflects human knowledge. It is argued that the increase of human knowledge and of its products is mirrored by …

This paper investigates the extent to which ‘advanced’ knowledge and technology played a role in the SO2 compliance … knowledge and technology dedicated to pollution abatement played a minor role in that process while relatively unadvanced forms … of knowledge and technology played the main role. New qualitative evidence in this somewhat well-known case is considered …

to states of uncertainty be explicitly dealt with. We argue that ‘knowledge,’ because of the existence of uncertainty is … ‘energy gradients’ and ‘knowledge gradients’ as essential concepts in understanding economic emergence and resultant economic …

Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public policies have been shaped … learned from these examples are rarely transferable elsewhere. The regional innovation systems in peripheral regions, and the … objective of the article is precisely to take Portugal as an example to enrich this analysis. The first part of this article …

(innovation, organizational commitment and performance) of market orientation in industrial SMEs.This article follows a new … orientation influences innovation and innovation, in its turn, influences business performance. Moreover, market orientation and …

shift from an optimal into a non-optimal innovation policy. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical model is developed … in order to examine and explain the growth and welfare effects of optimal and non-optimal innovation policies. The non … supporting national R&D instead of foreign R&D and conclude that the same support given to innovation can produce strikingly …