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During the last decades the amount of studies published about innovation systems has
been massive, originating a great interest for policy makers in search for scientific
background and technical support to find out the most adequate strategies for
development. Although from different perspectives, studies point out knowledge
creation and innovation, as the major drivers of change and growth. The consensus is
broken, however, as soon as the complexity of innovation and knowledge are tackled:
Innovation goes much beyond new product or process development due to its
interactive nature, and knowledge surpasses the firms’ attributes because, frequently, it
is a spatial endogenous characteristic.
The present paper is a contribution to the earlier discussion and represents an effort to
develop a model able to answer how institutions are relating to each other, tracing
networks of innovation.
The available database compromises an extensive set of Portuguese innovative firms,
spatially identified and able to permit spatial connectivity to understand where and how
strong are the links for innovation in Portugal and to analyze the respective level of
concentration or dispersion.
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Innovations firms
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Vaz, E., Noronha Vaz, T. and Nijkamp, P. (2013) “The Spatial-Institutional Architecture of Firms’ Innovative Behaviour” in K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, B. Stimson (Ed) in Applied Regional Growth and Innovation Models, Series: Advances in Spatial Science, Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-642-37818-8.