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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 …
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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). …
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organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … Portugal and other European countries, over all, during the decade of 90. An analysis for sector is made still. One verifies … Portugal, concluding that Portugal presents an enterprise structure predominantly based on small and very small companies, a …
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Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...
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regular student population enrolled in all public schools of continental Portugal (grades 1 to 12, from 2006/07 to 2016 …
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Using student-level longitudinal data of 6th graders I estimate class composition effects impacting on individual academic achievement. The richness of the dataset allows to tackle endogeneity stemming from between and within-school non-random sorting of students and of teachers and other...
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As well as in other social domains, neoliberalism has been invading education. This trend is leading to a general commodification and to the progressive substitution of some basic values, as the equality of opportunities, by efficiency and competitiveness. At the same time, education policies...
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sustainable knowledge-based living and working environment in Portugal. Most initiatives under the Digital Cities and Regions … technologies (ICTs) by public administrations across the EU. Portugal has been strategically involved in a catching-up process with … high investments in the areas of innovation and ICT infrastructures. This paper is based on the field work and on the …
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We explore if the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship, applied to FDI, provides at least a partial … explanation for the greater emergence of recent knowledge-based entrepreneurship in Ireland compared with Wales. In order to … examine how FDI and entrepreneurship policy in these two regions might have influenced the levels of knowledge …
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