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 …

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 …

economic activity within a territory, ie, these special attributes are main gathering forces for clustering firms. determining …

There is clear acknowledgment in the literature of the importance of developing regional innovation strategies to build …

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 …

its correlation to innovation dynamics in small and medium-sized regions. In particular, we focus on the systematization … the sustainability of the innovation processes, knowledge production and diffusion, which take place inside small and …), until the modern theories of business clusters and innovation systems. These frameworks constitute the basis of an approach …

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. …

based on the ideas that space—or, more precisely, territory—is the matrix of economic development and that economic … technological paradigm, which stresses innovation, learning, and know-how as the most important competitive advantages; the …

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"/> …