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- Certification, maintenance and decertification of standardised innovation management systems: Motivations, barriers and benefitsPublication . Mendes de Saboya , Liana; Candido, Carlos Joaquim Farias; Cesário, MarisaThe role of standardised innovation management systems (SIMS) in fostering organisational innovation has been largely overlooked in the literature. This study addresses this gap by investigating the certification, maintenance, and decertification of SIMS. Using a descriptive and inductive methodology, the research analyses primary data from 94 Portuguese organisations with certified SIMS. The findings reveal a strong prevalence of internal motivations for certification, low implementation obstacles, and significant benefits, suggesting that these firms have successfully internalised the SIMS standard into their innovation management processes. Maintenance motivations are also strong, particularly internal ones, which align well with the critical success factors for sustaining certification. The benefits of maintaining SIMS are substantial, particularly internal benefits, as initial external motivations for certification often evolve into internal maintenance motivations. Decertification motivations and propensity are weak among the sample firms. Expectations of negative performance impacts following potential decertification are also low, likely because these organisations have effectively internalised the SIMS standard. This study is the first to explore the maintenance and decertification of SIMS, providing evidence that SIMS can deliver substantial benefits, be efficiently maintained, and continuously enhance innovation and competitiveness. As a result, most organisations exhibit little interest in decertification. The findings offer significant contributions to research and provide actionable insights for practitioners, suggesting that innovation management systems can indeed be standardised with considerable benefits.
- Coagglomeration patterns in portuguese labour-intensive industries: complementarity and specialisation dynamicsPublication . Cesário, MarisaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the patterns of industrial agglomeration in Portugal in order to understand their underlying dynamics. Industries tend to be concentrated geographically, rather than due to random causes, natural advantages or Marshallian forces. Empirically, industry pairwise coagglomeration is measured using the Ellison and Glaeser (1997) metric, with the goal of understanding the complementarity versus specialisation dynamics behind the industrial geographic concentration in Portugal. It is concluded that the most prominent industrial clusters in Portugal are as follows: textiles and clothing, footwear and transport, each one having a different agglomeration dynamic. While some sectors tend to benefit more from the interdependencies along the value chain (meaning vertical industrial relationships, related to complementary dynamics), others are more vulnerable to labour pooling (more to do with horizontal industrial relationships and specialisation dynamics), and others to both. For policymakers, for instance, it is of great use to know exactly the right triggers as the success of any programme results from the suitability of the initiatives being financially supported.
- Innovation dynamics and resilience: a crucial agenda for the future of regional studies and policyPublication . Pinto, HugoHugo Pinto develops the concept of the ‘resilience of innovation’, which links ideas about innovation dynamics and resilience to anticipate how regions might respond to external shocks or systemic failures in the economy and environment.
- Innovation in firms, resilience and the economic downturn: insights from CIS data in PortugalPublication . Pinto, Hugo; Pereira, Tiago Santos; Uyarra, ElviraThere is an interest in understanding the effect of economic crises such as the one that hit the financial markets in the late 2000s, on the innovation performance of countries and regions. This paper introduces the concept of “resilience of innovation” to illustrate how the economic slowdown affects firms' behaviour in terms of their ability to maintain and develop innovative activities and deploy product and process innovation. Using Portugal as a case study—an EU member-state that was heavily affected by the economic downturn—this paper explores the data collected from four waves of the Community Innovation Survey from 2006 to 2012. It presents two-stage limited dependent variable models to understand the changing impacts of structural factors, innovative activities and strategies in terms of exploration and exploitation of knowledge on the development of product and process innovation. We find knowledge exploration to be particularly important for product innovation, while exploitation is a strong determinant for process innovation. Size, market knowledge sources and public funding for innovation are positively associated with both types of innovation in the peak of the crisis. This reiterates the importance of innovation support efforts to mitigate the effects of economic shocks and boost recovery.
- Modern innovation challenges to firms and cities: the case of PortugalPublication . Fernandes, Silvia C. Pinto de Brito; Cesário, Marisa; Castela, GuilhermeModern competition is tough due to emergent information systems and technologies. Managers must cope with these challenges continuously to keep their businesses sustainable. An important step is to employ strategies based on open innovation. This work analyses where Portugal stands in terms of innovation in general, propensity for open innovation and innovation sustainability. An HJ-Biplot methodology was applied to a valid sample from CIS 2012 (Community Innovation Survey). It suggests that Portuguese firms must cut back on activities that are not leading to the outcomes needed. Also, with the right partners they can have more ideas executed and diffused.
- Pathways to progress: unveiling structural change in Africa through economic transformation, technology, talent, and tourismPublication . Pinto, Hugo; Odoi, Evans; Nogueira, Carla; Viana, Luiz Fernando CâmaraAfrican economies are undergoing significant structural transformation, transitioning from agriculture to manufacturing, services, and technology-driven industries. Driven by urbanization, technological innovation, and global trade, this shift offers opportunities for sustainable growth but faces challenges such as infrastructure gaps and institutional hurdles. This paper examines the dynamics of structural change in 54 African countries, focusing on the roles of technology, talent, and tourism. Using World Bank data, factor and cluster analyses reveal five latent components: structural conditions, public sector capacities, dynamic conditions, urbanization, and growth. The analysis categorizes countries into six clusters, from Developing Economies to African Powerhouses. The findings emphasize the critical role of technology in boosting productivity, the importance of talent development through education and workforce integration, and the potential of sustainable tourism to drive transformation. This research provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Africa’s structural transformation, offering actionable insights to address disparities and promote equitable development across the continent.
- Resilience of innovationPublication . Viana, Luiz; Pinto, HugoThe resilience of innovation approach extends the notion of resilience—commonly used to refer to socio-economic systems—to the innovation process. This text reviews conceptual perspectives on resilience (engineering, ecological, adaptive and transformative) and highlights innovation as a dynamic process, not just an outcome. Innovation resilience differs from related concepts such as innovation persistence and technological resilience, which focus on stability rather than the transformative nature of the process. In addition, we highlight that innovation resilience is a multi-level phenomenon and allows for the exploration of opportunities for social and environmental change in times of uncertainty.
- Resilience, crisis and innovation dynamics: emerging challengesPublication . Baycan, Tüzin; Pinto, HugoThe concept of resilience has gained particular relevance to the understanding of socio-economic systems since its expansion in ecology studies. It has been widely used in a variety of areas centered around flexible adaptation, usually in a socio-economic or ecological environment where risk, uncertainty, unpredictability and turbulence are recurrent. The history of resilience as a concept is closely related to the emergence of system’s approach and new ecological ideas in the late 1960s (Davoudi et al., 2012). At that time, a new awareness of environmental degradation was translated into social movements and turmoil that questioned industrial paradigms and Western egemony. The neoclassical economic principle that growth can exist without regard for resource limitations began to inspire concerns among both intellectuals and the general public. The most often cited resilience-framework, Holling’s resilience theory (Holling, 2010), was an explicit critique of the departure of 1970s industrial management practices from the idea that a system stabilizes around a single equilibrium.
- Resilient territories: innovation and creativity for new models of regional developmentPublication . Pinto, HugoToday, Europe is in a delicate situation. Contrasts of growing competition and the lack of capacity to overcome challenges from the recent economic turbulence in specific regions and countries have created a sense of urgency to reflect on member-states cohesion. Questions arise regarding the diverse regional economies that compose the European Union (EU) and what this diversity means for adaptation to external shocks, resistance to negative impacts and evolution to new sociotechnical regimes. Essentially, academics, planners and decision makers are looking for a way to increase the resilience of the EU territory. Resilience can be understood as a non-equilibrium characteristic that facilitates a socioeconomic system to recover from a negative impact by reshaping a former trajectory or by adapting a new trajectory that successfully deals with the external pressures. These processes and characteristics have been studied in the recent past by regional scientists seeking to identify the set of dynamic conditions that create a more or less resilient territory. In the regional context, resilience is a concept adapted from the study of ecological systems and other fields of science that is applied to the understanding of geographically embedded socioeconomic systems. It is often a characteristic connected to a threshold of socioeconomic variety and specialisation that facilitates a smooth adaptation to the challenges faced in territories. With the recent crisis, some regions have dealt with this concept, by planning the adequate conditions for resilience. Regional resilience has also been connected, but not fully integrated in the literature, with more stabilised concepts, such as innovation and creativity (Pinto & Pereira, 2014). Innovation is often assumed as crucial for resilience. It was a central notion for the EU s policies in the last decade and it was also very influential in science and technology (S&T) studies. In particular, innovation systems have been used as a framework to develop and implement policies in transnational, national, regional, local, and even sectoral contexts (OECD, 2005). An innovation system focuses on a specific area or sector, where a group of actors is interconnected, with the goal to innovate. The core of the system has the main function of innovation but also has a broader ambition for growth and development. Hence, when analysing the innovation system it is important to understand actors and linkages that are directly connected to S&T infrastructure but also the institutional architecture and a vast group of building blocks that are in the centre of the socio-economic profile of the territory, providing the range of possibilities for adaptation and evolution.
- Smart innovation strategy and innovation performance: an empirical application on the Portuguese small and medium‐sized firmsPublication . Cesário, Marisa; Fernandes, Silvia C. Pinto de BritoSmart Innovation is often considered as the capability of firms to create new opportunities through a dynamic relationship with the main actors in their setting, fostering higher innovation performances and sustainable competitive advantage. However, innovation indicators of Portugal in Europe show that Portuguese firms miss an open innovation strategy to cope quick and easily with complex new challenges. Relying on the results from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2014) this paper focuses on the analysis of the relationship between a smart‐open innovation approach and firms’ innovation performance in the sample. Furthermore, and using the LINEAR (automatic linear modelling) procedure in SPSS 24.0, statistically significant relationships are established between proxies for smart‐open innovation and a score for innovation performance. The findings provide relevant conclusions about how Portuguese firms should explore their networking strategies, both in terms of scale (or smart ‐ local/geographically) and scope (or open ‐ a variety of agents) in order to match their innovation to market, toward a continuous business value.