managed largely from western firms. This fact has manifold consequences for the innovation behaviour of plants, among others …

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 …

the knowledge in laser technology was particularly high in those regions which have started laser research rather early …. There is also no significant effect of regional knowledge in the field of laser technology on the number of regional laser …

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 …