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T1 Regional innovation systems in Portugal: a critical evaluation
T2 Sistemas regionales de innovación en Portugal: una evaluación crítica
A1 Santos, Domingos
A1 Simões, Maria João
K1 Regional innovation systems
K1 Innovation
K1 Innovation policy
K1 Peripheral regions
K1 Territory
K1 Portugal
K1 Sistemas regionales de innovación
K1 Innovación
K1 Política de innovación
K1 Regiones periféricas
K1 Territorio
K1 Portugal
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in thethree last decades. Public policies have been shaped by «best practice models» derived from high-tech urban-metropolitan areas and successful regions. However, lessons learned from these examples are rarely transferable elsewhere. The regional innovation systems in peripheral regions, and the likelihood of their acting as instruments for territorial competitiveness, have rarely been the subjects of discussion. The main objective of the article is precisely to take Portugal as an example to enrich this analysis. The first part of this article examines the concept of regional innovation systems against the background of modern theories of innovation and regional policies. It is argued that the role of localized learning is of strategic importance in the promotion of endogenous regional development. The authors then discuss the structural barriers and opportunities to promote regional innovation strategies in the Portuguese political, economic and social context, and, finally, they point out some specificities that need to be addressed in the redesign of public interventions in order to improve regional competitiveness andsustainability.
PB Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (AECR)
SN 2340-2717
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26957
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/26957
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024