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 …

sources of knowledge (ISK) as innovation performance drivers. Thus, context-led views such as the innovative milieux approach …, innovation systems literature and the knowledge spillover view have tended to focus on diverse, informal and location …-facilitated sources of knowledge. Meanwhile, firm-led perspectives such as the innovator networks approach and the open innovation model …

obstacles and consequences. For the purpose of this paper, innovation has served as a major contributor for the previously … and explores those innovation determinants that have been detected by region. The analysis defines a set of regionalized … firms' behavioural patterns towards innovation. Methodologically, the Logistic Biplot is applied to an extended sample of …

It has been shown that firms tend to develop different modes of innovation triggered by the relationship between … different types of knowledge and learning processes underpinning it. This paper aims at identifying different modes of business … innovation; second, relating them to firms' innovative and economic performance; and, analyzing the relationship between the …

A Contribution for the Iden+tification of Indicators for the Evaluation of the Impact on Regional Innovation and … Development of an EU Program for University Research in the North of Portugal ABSTRACT Co-financed Programs by the European Union … have been with no doubt relevant to contribute to some endeavours of Research and Development in the North of Portugal …

: to what extent can they replace cumbersome bureaucracies as forms of management and as sources of innovation and … seminars held in Hungary, the Netherlands and Portugal, organized with the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and … Innovation. They were concerned with the "how?" and not just the "what?" and "why?" of changing schools for the future …