Despite significant progress made, improving skills remains one of Portugal’s key challenges for raising growth, living … cooperate with the private sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2017 OECD Economic Survey of Portugal (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-portugal.htm). …

This paper focuses on knowledge-based entrepreneurship, or new firm creation in industries which are considered to be … studies of thirteen knowledge-based firms in six ECE countries, we suggest that KBE firms in these countries may differ in … some important ways from the conventional picture of new technology based firms. In general, we see the ECE knowledge …

Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … comparable small European economies. Further shifting the orientation of the economy to the external sector is vital for Portugal … to focus innovation policies on raising the participation of small and medium enterprises in innovative activities. …