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Understanding the ways and the dynamics of collaborative innovation processes: ...
Monteiro, João Pedro Valadas da Silva; Neto, Paulo; Noronha, Teresa deThe Algarve region has always showed a close relationship with the sea as a result of its excellent natural conditions, historical and cultural reasons, and notorious know-how related with traditional maritime activities, such as fisheries and fish processing, and naval industry; more recently, nautical activities, such as tourism and recreational boating, have been gaining increased importance. The region is a...
Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different com...
Cesário, M.; Noronha, Teresa deThe aim of this paper is to conduct an exploratory investigation on the type of competitive strategies that are likely to be associated with different networking profiles. We focus our attention on response strategies related to investments and technological adjustments, and how they vary according to different spatial scales of firms' networks. We report the results of the application of a common questionnaire...
A Differentiation Framework for Maritime Clusters: Comparisons across Europe
Monteiro, Pedro; Noronha, Teresa; Neto, PauloThe purpose of this paper is to point out some of the main characteristics and critical factors for success that can substantiate the proposal of a differentiation framework for maritime clusters. We conduct a benchmarking analysis intended to distinguish the most relevant aspects which can or should be observed in these types of clusters, applied to the following countries: Spain (Basque Country), Germany (Lan...
A differentiation framework for Maritime Clusters. Comparisons Across Europe
Monteiro, Pedro Valadas; Noronha, Teresa de; Neto, PauloThe purpose of this paper is to point out some of the main characteristics and critical factors for success that can substantiate the proposal of a differentiation framework for maritime clusters. We conduct a benchmarking analysis intended to distinguish the most relevant aspects which can or should be observed in these types of clusters, applied to the following countries: Spain (Basque Country), Germany (Lan...
Business topographies. A spatiotemporal analysis of 150 years of Indian business
Vaz, Eric; Noronha, Teresa de; Shafizadeh, H.; Kumar, S.; Nijkamp, PeterOne of the most growing entrepreneurial landscapes has been without a doubt in the last decade India. India, with a total population of almost 1.2 billion inhabitants, is a land of immense business opportunity within a highly competitive market. Before the eighties however, India was mainly a rural country, with a large contrast of the nexus between city and periphery. With the emergence of young generation of ...
Modelling innovation support systems for development
Vaz, Eric; Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; 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 pape...
Localised assets and small-firms’ technological capabilities, spatial and organ...
Cesário, M.; Noronha, Teresa deThe main objective of the present work is to empirically show how a set of environmental variables affects the adoption of new technologies by small firms. We report the results of the application of a common questionnaire to a sample of 167 small and medium sized firms from clothes, textile and leather sectors (TCL) belonging to the following southern European areas: North (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Macedon...
The Knowledge - Intensive Service Activities (KISA) as a Key Driver for Innovat...
Neto, Paulo; Monteiro, Pedro Valadas; Noronha, TeresaThe main purpose of the current paper is to evaluate the contribution of knowledge - intensive service activities (KISA) as a key driver for innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of a cluster approach for the economy of the sea in Algarve. We intend to analyse the central role played by these interaction processes on the generation of learning organizations and on inducing cross fertilization phenomena...
The Idiosyncratic Nature of Maritime Clusters: Considerations for Their Possibl...
Monteiro, Pedro; Noronha, Teresa; Neto, PauloThe main objective of the current paper is to distinguish the most relevant aspects which can or should be observed in maritime clusters and are most likely to contribute to their inherent idiosyncratic nature. Based on a literature survey and on a benchmarking presentation of four successful examples of European maritime clusters, we use a study research methodology to substantiate the proposal of a possible d...
Regional, national and international networks: the suitability of different com...
Cesário, M.; Noronha, Teresa deThe continuous capacity of firms to learn is seen by many scholars as the critical solution in order to avoid firms from becoming locked into obsolete technological and competitive trajectories. This is a very common tendency, particularly in peripheral areas and/or labour-intensive industries. Networks are often seen as the channel to overcome the risk that firms may become rigid. By accessing other markets, ...
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