This article seeks to determine whether the innovative capabilities of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) do actually differ from other industries through comparing the innovation capacities and financial performance of KIBS with firms operating in other sectors (non-KIBS). Based upon...

Despite innovation's importance in firm strategy and competitiveness, most innovation research fails to examine some important questions relating to innovation. This study focuses on two innovation management issues: Identification of determinants of the innovation management process and the...

Knowledge is increasingly perceived as a central factor for company competitiveness. With the transfer of knowledge one of the core functions of knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) companies, the objective of our research incorporates analysis on how the transfer of knowledge takes place...

This research aims to analyse the drivers to company innovation and their effects on the financial performance. This study is based upon a sample of companies, located in two neighbouring countries (Portugal and Spain). Linear regression was the methodology deployed to analyse the importance of...

This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and verify to what extent these companies return different profiles when classified by urban versus rural. Taking a sample of 500 KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results...

A inovação assume-se cada vez mais como um factor chave da competitividade empresarial. Várias abordagens teóricas, desenvolvidas nos últimos anos, sustentam que a inovação não é algo que resulta da acção isolada de um único actor, mas é vista como um processo não linear, complexo,...

Muito se tem dito e escrito sobre o domínio da visão industrialista no quadro de análise do fenómeno inovatório. Parece, no entanto, ser concedida pouca atenção à inovação tecnológica no contexto específico dos serviços e, em particular, no domínio dos serviços financeiros e...

A exportação constitui o principal tipo de envolvimento internacional das empresas portuguesas. Neste artigo é apresentado um estudo empírico, levado a cabo no principal sector exportador industrial português, o sector têxtil. A investigação tem por objectivo principal, identificar as...

With data for Portugal we propose an index of housing comfort based on the Household Budget Survey. This index covers housing and durable goods grouped in two dimensions: basic comfort and complementary comfort. Taking this index as starting point we make two contributions. First we quantify the...