Pensar localmente, agir globalmente -- Círculos viciosos que travam o desenvolvimento -- Serenidade nas turbulências -- Protagonismo e competitividade -- Inovação e cooperação -- Associativismo e representatividade -- Inquietação cidadã -- Cuidar da cidade -- Relação com a natureza --...

The University and the Economy provides an in-depth exploration of the many ways in which universities contribute to economic development and growth. By providing readers with theoretical tools and evidence to explain the means by which university activities impact the economic system, the book...

Subsidies for R&D are an important tool of public R&D policy, which motivates extensive scientific analyses and evaluations. The paper adds to this literature by arguing that the effects of R&D subsidies go beyond the extension of organizations' monetary resources invested into R&D. It is argued...

This paper investigates the embeddedness of European regions in different types of inter-regional knowledge networks, namely project based R and D collaborations within the EU Framework Programmes (FPs), co-patent networks and co-publication networks. Embeddedness refers to the network...