determinant of collective action. From a multidisciplinary review of literature on territory and social innovation and from the …. One conception of territory is associated to each three stages of the process of social innovation: an individualy …Companies, in the broad sense of productive organisations, are actors of social innovation and of territorial …

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 … examines the concept of regional innovation systems against the background of modern theories of innovation and regional …

Innovation behaviour of agri-food firms depends on firm structure but also on the characteristics of the territory in … handicap for innovation but improved access to training services and technological institutes have a significant influence in … innovation. …

hypothesis of a winning configuration for the 3rd millenium, that is one based on innovation, organizations and territory. Our …) and aimed at identifying the effects of proximity on innovation and local development; the method was based on interviews … space of innovation at the metropolitan scale. Classification JEL : O18, R30, O30, R12.<np pagenum="836"/> …

requirements. It is the main purpose of the public innovation policies. The regional and local actors are very often short of … methodological frames to comprehend those evolutions and especially the impact upon them of scientific and technical innovation … performances of their territory, but also its capacity to maintain or to improve its position into the global ?hierarchy of places …

be related to the rest of the Region through various organization levels of the regional innovation system. The concepts … », of which innovation networks have been recently territorialized and in which a self-identification process is emerging. …

utilized by a European research network, the GREMI, working on the territorial aspects of innovation and development. From the … early typologies of territories innovation trajectoires and the analyses of relationship between milieux and innovation …

Today, innovation is present in the discourse of politicians and business leaders. They see innovation as a positive … innovative practices through incentives and innovation policies. Several economic and sociological studies have shown that … innovations. In this sense, we will consider innovation public policies effects at Portuguese companies and how they take …