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Portuguese strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy have, over the past
two decades, produced various positive achievements, in which the regions of Lisbon
and Algarve have taken the lead, and are the only ones in the country to converge
towards the European average growth rate. Regarding the other Portuguese regions –
despite significant national growth rates in the 1990s as well as a successful attempt to
cope with the EMU –, these are lagging behind the EU average with respect to gross
production, investment or employment generation. Meanwhile, one of the greatest
public policy efforts was to diffuse much of the European funds across the
entrepreneurial sector. After a long pathway, it is now timely to evaluate the firms‟
contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts.
For the purpose of this paper, innovation is used here as a major contributor to the
policy evaluation process referred to above. Our investigation aims to explain the
present performance of Portuguese firms located throughout the country and to explore
those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation. To provide a
thorough investigation, our analysis defines, on a regional basis, a set of firms‟
behavioural patterns regarding innovation. In our modelling, we employ a new methodology, viz. the External Logistic Biplot
method, which is applied to an extensive sample of innovative institutions in Portugal.
Variables such as „Promoting knowledge‟, „Management skills‟, „Promoting R&D‟,
„Knowledge transfer‟, „Promoting partnership & cooperation‟, and „Orientation of
public measures‟ have been identified as crucial determinants in earlier studies and are
now used to describe regional institutional profiles. Such profiles exhibit a great variety
in the way they combine these determinants to promote regional innovation. The
creation of a gradient of capacity to dynamically innovate associated with each firm
makes it possible to analyse the innovation gradient of each region in Portugal. Our
paper presents and systematically investigates these findings and then reaches some
policy conclusions.
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Innovation firms' performance regional innovation systems principal coordinates analysis external logistic biplot voronoi diagram dissimilarity matrix
Citation
Galindo, P., Noronha, M. T. and Vaz, E. (2012) “Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal - Results from an External Logistic BIPLOT Method”, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 11-106/4