Cesário, M.Noronha, Teresa de2014-06-272014-06-272004Cesário, M. and Noronha Vaz, T. (2004) Territory and entrepreneurial performance - an exercise on the industrial regions of Ave, Entre Douro e Vouga, Baixo Vouga, Pinhal Litoral and Península de Setúbal, in APDR (Ed), Regions and Fiscal Federalism – Proceedings of the 44th European Congress of the European Regional Science Association (CD ROM), Colecção APDR, CoimbraAUT: MTV00577; AUT: MCE02112;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4563The present paper was motivated by the recent interest put on the regional context as having a major role tracing economic agents behaviours and inducing productive activity. Three main goals have been defined: to emphasise the relation between favourable regional factors for development and firm performance in the case of the most industrialised Portuguese regions; to distinguish in each region its own propensity for sustainable development and to evaluate if the region may be considered as intrinsic co-operative or resistant to co-operation.engTerritorial systems of productionlocal endogenous capacitiesSMEs performanceconference object