Pedro Conceiccao, Manuel V. Heitor

Innovation for All? Learning from the Portuguese Path to Technical Change and the Dynamics of Innovation

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Produktbeschreibung

At the macroeconomic level innovation increasingly means the ability of institutions to cope with uncertainty and change. This change can be associated with technological advances, but also with modifications to the regulatory framework of an industry, shifts in consumer preferences, emerging demographic trends, or even major alternations of global geopolitics. The changes brought about by these conditions ripple throughout an economy, affecting national institutions and individual citizens alike. Innovation for All? considers the case of Portugal from the perspective of innovation theory, providing new insights on how knowledge is generated and diffused over time and across space. The lessons from Portugal's experience can be applied more broadly to understand the challenges of developing policies that simultaneously promote scientific and technological innovation, societal creativity, and economic growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781567205480
• ISBN-10: 1567205488
• Artikelnr.: 21026266

Autorenporträt

Pedro Conceicão is Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a researcher at the Center for Innovation, Technology, and Policy Research. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the IC2 Institute, University of Texas, Austin. Manuel V. Heitor is Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Director of the Center for Innovation, Technology, and Policy Research. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the IC2 Institute, University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jean-Pierre Contzen Acknowledgments List of Figures List of
Tables Introduction: The Open-Ended Evolution of the Theory and Practice of
Innovation AN EVOLVING SCENARIO: PORTUGAL IN EUROPE A Dual Society
Excellence of Research in Portugal Characteristics of Innovation in
Portugal: The European Context The Challenge of Productivity Growth
LEARNING FROM HISTORY Looking at Innovation over Time and Across Space: The
Relevance of Technical Change Beyond Technical Change: Building Competences
and the Emergence of Innovation Studies and Policies Engineering Education
in Portugal: Still Looking for Diversification The System of Science and
Technology in Portugal: An Heavy Heritage BUILDING A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
The Learning Society: A Framework to Understand the New Demands for Being
Innovative Deepening our Understanding of Learning Towards Innovation:
Building on the Economics of Knowledge Building on Social Capital TOWARDS A
LEARNING SOCIETY Relying on Science and Technology Policy? Adapting
Universities Fostering Systems of Innovation and Competence Building: The
Challenges of Inclusiveness Summary and Closure References Index About the
Authors