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- Modelling innovation support systems for developmentPublication . Vaz, Eric; Noronha, Teresa de; Vicente-Galindo, Purificación; Nijkamp, PeterThe present article offers a concise theoretical conceptualization on the contribution of innovation to regional development. These concepts are closely related to geographical proximity, knowledge diffusion and filters, and clustering. Institutional innovation profiles and regional patterns of innovation are two mutually linked, novel conceptual elements in this article. Next to a theoretical framing, the paper offers also a new methodology to analyse institutional innovation profiles. Our case study addresses three Portuguese regions and their institutions, included in a web-based inventory of innovation agencies which offered the foundation for an extensive data base. This data set was analyzed by means of a recently developed Principal Coordinates Analysis followed by a Logistic Biplot approach (leading to a Voronoi mapping) to design a systemic typology of innovation structures where each institution is individually represented. There appears to be a significant difference in the regional innovation patterns resulting from the diverse institutional innovation profiles concerned. These profiles appear to be region-specific. Our conclusion highlights the main advantages in the use of the method used for policy-makers and business companies.
- Relation between some socio-economic indicators and the security factor - the case of AlgarvePublication . Castanho, José António Gil; Noronha, Teresa deThe paper discusses the implications of the security factor in the regional development in Algarve region. Considering the goal of sustainable development and growth, some variables related to criminality at regional level have been observed and compared to the national values. The obtained data bases was applied in a methodological essay to search for significant statistical correlations between criminal registers and a set of social and economic indicators, namely: unemployment, internal regional product at mp and cp, regional added value, population density, entered legalised citizens and visiting foreign citizens. This study, developed at regional level, reports an observation period from 1995 and is based on the bibliographic support kindly supplied by the Cabinet of Legislative Politics and Planning in Ministry of Justice.
- Framing urban habitats: the small and medium towns in the peripheriesPublication . Noronha, Teresa de; Vaz, EricThis paper proposes an integrative vision of the role of small and medium towns in the developing world. A conceptual framework is explored on the role of sustainable regions and the effects as well as the causalities of urbanisation within the changing dynamics of cities. The new urban habitats that are formed bring not only a direct impact of population pressures on fragile regions, but this new urban habitats, lead to classical economic models that extent into patterns where developing countries can be main actors in the trends of regional innovation dynamics.
- Theoretical foundations in support of small and medium townsPublication . De Noronha, Maria Teresa; Vaz, EricThis theoretical review aims to create a comprehensive and systematic analysis based on previously published literature explaining how contemporary technological developments may promote new paths for small and medium-sized towns (SMTs) and their networking systems. Much has been said concerning the capacity of towns to absorb strategic knowledge, which is highly dependent on local governance systems. In this paper, five levels of multidisciplinary approaches will be addressed so as to pinpoint the theoretical grounds for the promotion and advocacy of small and medium-sized towns (SMTs) as major drivers of regional sustainability: agglomeration advantages and networking efficiencies-representing strict economic accounting of cost and benefits; clustering in a context of online environments, and its extension to open networking systems; sustainable innovation processes for SMTs, technology, and knowledge transfer in open innovation systems-both settings for discussions within the framing of new technological developments and artificial intelligence; knowledge and new technological developments with local spillovers-to be enhanced employing new educational programs and learning diffusion at advanced levels; the social functions of small and medium-sized towns-to be addressed in the areas of sociology, architecture, and planning.