How has the Portuguese innovation capability evolved? Estimating a time series of the stock of technological knowledge (1960-2001)

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2007

Autores

Aurora Teixeira (Autor) FEP

Revista

Título: Portuguese Journal of Social Science

Vol. 6 Nº 2

Páginas: 77-95

ISSN: 1476-413X

Editora: Intellect Publishers

Indexação

Scopus - 2 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências sociais > Economia e gestão

CORDIS: Ciências Sociais > Economia

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-009-WV2

DOI: 10.1386/pjss.6.2.77/1

Abstract (EN): The importance of promoting innovation has been elevated up to a status of official standard since the Lisbon European Summit in 2000. Here research and development (R&D) has been singled out as an essential element of the foundation on which innovation could be built. R&D has been a growing area of investigation namely at level of firms micro studies aimed at uncovering firms¿ innovation capability. At the macro level, the relevance of R&D for countries¿ innovation capability has been, in a dynamic perspective, more often presumed rather than effectively tested. This latter limitation is, to a large extent, explained by the paucity of aggregated continuous time series on innovation indicators specifically those based on R&D expenditures. This paper aims at filling this gap by providing an estimate of the Portuguese innovation capability over the two last four decades based on the accumulated R&D efforts. Such indicator, albeit preliminary, will desirably endorse new investigation on the Portuguese catching-up process and, in this way, might inform present and future public programs related to R&D policies in particular and innovation policies in general.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 19