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Energy, competition and innovation: how policies’ coordination may contribute t...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the role played by the coordination of public policies – competition and innovation policies - in achieving a new organizational model in the energy sector. The acknowledgement that the use of energy represents a main issue in today’s world, due to its impact on the sustainability of global resources, is the central driver for the current debate. Taking investment in th...

Business models of young firms operating in renewable energy technologies: inno...

This paper focuses on the behaviour of new technology-intensive firms (NTIFs) in the process of developing research-based renewable energy technologies, and introducing them into the market. Our main assumption is that the introduction of new energy technologies is closely connected with the creation of a variety of small technology-intensive firms that are the conveyors of these technologies and act as challen...

Assessing the impact of the Lisbon Strategy on the European Social Model – What...

With the international crisis and the launching of the strategy Europe 2020 a cycle of European policy has come to an end. The purpose of this article is to conduct an empirical analysis of the Lisbon Strategy’s capacity to reshape the European Social Model (ESM) in the period 2000-10. In this paper, we argue that the ESM has been reshaped over the past decades towards an emphasis on activation policies rather ...

Knowledge intensive sectors in moderate innovative countries in Europe: overcom...

In this paper we characterize the national innovation systems of two moderate innovative countries – Italy and Portugal. We argue that moderate innovative countries are at a crossroads, since they do not have the attributes to compete with either the most advanced economies or the emerging countries. Bearing this in mind, we provide some elements for the design of a comprehensive catch-up strategy aimed at over...

Understanding the topologies of innovation networks in knowledge-intensive sectors

The main goal of this paper is to compare the networks mobilised by young entrepreneurial firms from two knowledge intensive sectors – molecular biotechnology and software for telecommunications – to access resources required for innovation. Such a comparison allows similarities and differences between networks to be identified and explained. The analysis focuses on formal and informal networks and on the rele...

The emergence of a knowledge-intensive sector in Portugal: social networks and ...

This paper deals with the development of the software for telecommunications sector, a relatively small segment in the global software industry though one of its most innovative. In fact, its products address the demand of one of the most sophisticated and fastest changing industries today, the telecommunications industry. We attempt to explain how and why this sector has evolved in Portugal since its inception...

Building a bridge: social networks and technological regimes in biotechnology a...

The paper investigates the influence of technological regimes on the composition and structure of firms’ knowledge networks. We combine insights from two hitherto unconnected bodies of research: one relating technological regimes with the nature of knowledge; and the other relating knowledge and types of innovation with network configuration. Drawing on this framework, we build a number of propositions on the ...

The role of creative industries and governance for cities’ competitiveness: the...

DINÂMIA'CET, Dezembro de 2009. ; This paper analyses and compares the competitiveness dynamics of two metropolitan areas: Lisbon and Barcelona and the specific role of creative activities and governance in those dynamics. Its aim is to improve our knowledge about the nexus governance-competitiveness-creativity in those regions, in order to contribute to formulate strategic guidelines for policymaking and urban...

Entrepreneurship and social networks in IT sectors: the case of the software in...

DINÂMIA, Dezembro de 2008. ; Empirical research has repeatedly confirmed that social networks are important for the creation, survival and growth of new companies. In this article, the leading research questions are: 1) how do networks contribute to the creation of software firms and further development of a competitive IT sector; 2) what is the structure and features of those networks; 3) how have they evolve...

A emergência de um novo paradigma técnico-económico e os pequenos países: o cas...