Innovation in firms, resilience and the economic downturn: Insights from CIS data in Portugal

Pinto, Hugo; Pereira, Tiago Santos; Uyarra, Elvira

doi:10.1111/rsp3.12243

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“…The constant comparative method adopted in this paper is necessary to obtain concepts and categories with the aim to focus on the explanatory power of comparison, besides the similarities and differences that can be found. Thus, we detected some characteristics in the patterns of this innovation regarding relevant aspects (Garcia and Calantone, 2002; Ballantyne and Varey, 2006; Teece, 2007; Sainio et al , 2012; Teplykh, 2018; Pinto et al , 2019), as follows: introducing new or significantly improved goods and services; by sector of economic activity: industry and services; by product and service: for the market and the company; and by company size: small, medium and large. …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Researches carried out in recent years have sought to enrich the literature on innovation in the European Union (Kuhlmann, 2001; Crescenzi et al , 2007; Rodríguez-Pose and Crescenzi, 2008; Sofka and Grimpe, 2010; Karaman and Lahiri, 2014; Rõigas et al , 2018; Teplykh, 2018; Capello and Lenzi, 2019; Krammer and Jiménez, 2020). In Portugal, some researchers have studied this topic with approaches focused on investments in innovation (Gibson and Naquin, 2011; Santos, 2019), the relationship among government, companies and universities (Marques et al , 2006), regional development (Vaz et al , 2014), incubator innovation (Cravo and Marques, 2019), intellectual capital and product innovation (Costa et al , 2017; Pereira and Leitão, 2016), innovation resilience in times of crisis (Pinto et al , 2019) and open innovation and sustainability (Fernandes and Castela, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Product and service innovation in Portugal: patterns and specificities

Costa

Rocha

Madeira

2021

IJIS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the innovative scenario in Portugal, assess the patterns of goods and service change in the past decade and evaluate several essential characteristics from innovation and its relevant aspects. Design/methodology/approach This research is a case study with secondary data obtained from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) in which it is applied to the constant comparative method of data analysis proposed by Spiggle (1994). Findings The innovation of products and services in Portugal increased over the entire period analyzed although not linear, the financing programs contributed to the recovery and growth of innovation and small companies presented the most significant increase in product innovation. Research limitations/implications This investigation has limitations related to the data collected because the secondary data analyzed generalize the indicators and make it impossible to comprehend each aspect analyzed in this study in detail. This study also pointed out that Portuguese small- and medium-sized enterprises are more easily able to innovate in times of difficulty when compared to large companies. However, it is necessary to understand this phenomenon and present elements that can support or refute this discovery. Practical implications This paper offers a broad view of product and service innovation in Portugal for companies, entrepreneurs, universities and researchers, in addition to facilitating the creation and structuring of policies, research and financing that can develop innovation processes. Social implications By presenting a macro view of product and service innovation, this paper may facilitate the creation of incentives for innovation in Portugal and, consequently, to improve economic and development indicators. Originality/value This paper is unique in showing the patterns of innovation in the product and service in Portugal over almost a decade and in demonstrating important indicators that can be used in future research.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Product and service innovation in Portugal: patterns and specificities

Costa

Rocha

Madeira

2021

IJIS

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“…The representations of the border and transborder connections are non‐quantifiable indicators of economic growth but provide a contextual factor (Wilson & Wilson, 2019), which in particular circumstances (border forming of lifting) may become a catalyst for the economic growth or a carrier of relations when formal transborder relationships are broken. They invoke a different level of phenomena than data used in a quantitative economics oriented on using crisis for “renewal and the creation of new pathways grounded in explicit or latent capabilities of the system” (Pinto, Pereira, & Uyarra, 2019, p. 954). Such analyses of economic downturns have a comparative character for the EU regions.…”

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Borderlands from the resilience perspective: Diversification of state borders in former Austrian Galicia

Porczyński

Wojakowski

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The paper analyses practices and representations connected with the state borders by applying categories of resilience resources and the potentials of borderland communities. The analysis focus on three borderlands between Poland and Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, located in the former Austrian Galicia, which are divided by different types of state borders. The analysis shows that significant similarities exist between two sides of the borderland independently from the duration of the border presence in the settlement structure. The main feature of the state border which differentiates the resilience capital is the duration of borderline existence. Local communities existing in the vicinity of the new border use their past to build their tradition over the border through informal cooperation. In the case of the old and internal EU border, between Poland and Slovakia, such cooperation is more formal and based on the external resources. The common feature of the studied borderlands is the use of cultural resilience capital instead of the cultural capital that these territories lack.

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“…In these cases, external investments could ease a rapid response to global challenges in favour of local employment, but putting at risk future restructuring processes. These are places for creating linkages with foreign companies in order to up‐grade local capacities, and share the created value with local development agents. Spaces where formal and informal institutions are outside the market rules and where commercial knowledge is scarce are difficult to implement local initiatives as answers to global challenge, may be except in some cases for traditional and basic export‐oriented activities (Psycharis, Kallioras, & Pantazis, ). Territories with sufficient possibilities to make the most of local technical and cultural knowledge setting in motion local initiative linked to innovations (Pinto, Uyarra, & Pereira, ), and traditions (Rodríguez‐Cohard, Sánchez‐Martínez, & Gallego, ), but where local institutions, very often informal, slow down the response to increasing competition. These territories could be identified as slow cities or slow territories.…”

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Local development in a global world: Challenges and opportunities

Vázquez-Barquero

Cohard

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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The paper discusses whether local development is still a policy instrument in a globalized world. Territories throughout the world are experiencing greater international competition, and respond by using local resources in an innovative way. Their effectiveness faces important challenges, such as compatibility of goals, innovation, interaction of the forces of development, and strengthening of institutions. What can be learned from local experiences? How does the local actors' participation in local development policies improve results? How can local productive systems compete within the global markets? The cornerstones are institutional change, agreement among the local actors, networks, innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience.

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Innovation in firms, resilience and the economic downturn: Insights from CIS data in Portugal

Cited by 15 publications

References 54 publications

Product and service innovation in Portugal: patterns and specificities

Product and service innovation in Portugal: patterns and specificities

Borderlands from the resilience perspective: Diversification of state borders in former Austrian Galicia

Local development in a global world: Challenges and opportunities

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