The Firms Behind the Regions: Analysis of Regional Innovation Performance in Portugal by External Logistic Biplots

  1. De Noronha Vaz, Maria Teresa 1
  2. Galindo, Purificacion Vicente 2
  3. Nijkamp, Peter 3
  4. de Noronha Vaz, Eric 4
  1. 1 Centro de Investigação Sobre Espaço e Organizações (CIEO); University of Argave
  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  3. 3 VU University of Amsterdam - Department of Spatial Economics
  4. 4 Ryerson University
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    Ryerson University

    Toronto, Canadá

    ROR https://ror.org/05g13zd79

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Revista:
SSRN Electronic Journal

ISSN: 1556-5068

Año de publicación: 2013

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2321155 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

The strategic choices regarding innovation and R&D policy in Portugal have, over thelast two decades, produced various positive benefits, in which particularly the regions ofLisbon and Algarve have taken the lead. These are the only parts of the country thatconverge towards the European average growth rate. The other Lisbon and Algarvehave taken the lead, and are the only ones in the country to converge towards theEuropean average growth rate. Other Portuguese regions – despite significant nationalgrowth rates in the 1990s and a successful attempt to cope with the EMU – are laggingbehind the EU average with respect to gross production, investment and employmentgeneration. Meanwhile, one of the greatest public policy efforts was to diffuse much ofthe European funds across the entrepreneurial sector. This paper aims to evaluate thefirms’ contribution to national and regional growth, their obstacles and impacts, and toexplain the present performance of Portuguese firms located throughout the country,and to explore those innovation determinants that have a region-specific connotation. Inour paper, innovation is used as a major contributor to the policy evaluation processreferred to above. To provide a thorough investigation, our analysis defines, on aregional basis, a set of firms’ behavioural patterns regarding innovation. In ourmodelling, we employ a new methodology, viz. the External Logistic Biplot method,which is applied to an extensive sample of innovative institutions in Portugal. Variablessuch as ‘Promoting knowledge’, ‘Management skills’, ‘Promoting R&D’, ‘Knowledgetransfer’, ‘Promoting partnership & cooperation’, and ‘Orientation of public measures’have been identified as crucial determinants in earlier studies and are now used todescribe regional institutional profiles

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