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- Barriers to Innovation and Innovative Performance of Portuguese FirmsPublication . Madeira, Maria Jose; Carvalho, Joao; Moreira, Jacinta; Duarte, Filipe A P; Filho, FlavioThis paper aims to identify and analyze the main limiting factors to innovation performance in terms of product and process innovation. The limiting factors to innovation, difficult the innovation process of a firm and consequently influence its innovation performance. Thus, it is intended with this essay to develop a theoretical support based on current reference approaches, corroborated by an empirical support which allows identifying and analysing the restraining factors of innovation activity and of innovation performance. The database is extracted from the Community Innovation Survey - CIS 2010, conducted under the responsibility of the Office of Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations/Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (GPEARI/MCTES), in collaboration with the National Statistics Institute (INE), under the supervision of EUROSTAT. In order to identify the limiting factors to innovation performance a logistic regression model concerning the barriers to innovation is performed. The analysis suggests that several barriers to innovation have influence on the Innovative performance of Portuguese firms. These results may be due to the fact that the barrier of perception stimulates the firm to overcome these difficulties, promoting the internal propensity to innovate. The most important barriers perceived in the study are: high innovation costs, perceive uncertainties in the demand and the market for new goods and services and show a lack of qualified personnel to carry out innovation activities and a lack of market information are less likely to innovate than firms that do not experience these difficulties.
- Cooperation for Innovation in the European Union: Outlook and Evidences Using CIS for 15 European CountriesPublication . Carvalho, Luisa; Madeira, Maria Jose; Carvalho, Joao; Moura, Dulcineia Catarina; Duarte, Filipe A PCooperation for innovation is understood as an essential element in the innovation process of European firms. The aim is to compare how the different sources of information (external and internal) and cooperation for innovation are used in manufacturing and services in Europe using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data for 15 European countries. The empirical study uses a sample of firms included in the CIS (2008), which covers 15 European countries and applies multivarious data analysis techniques to extract results. The results of this research suggest that firms usesimultaneously different sources of information for cooperation, revealing different patterns of cooperation according to the activity sector in Europe. This paper brings some important insights about cooperation for innovation and suggests some patterns in Europe useful to design public policies, due de similar behavior of some countries grouped according with geography, development status or other economic features. Thus, this article seeks to frame the subject based on a literature review that raises a set of study hypotheses and presents an empirical study applied to cooperation for innovation in Europe using the CIS for 15 European countries.
- Barriers to Innovation and the Innovative Performance of Portuguese FirmsPublication . Madeira, Maria Jose; Carvalho, Joao; Moreira, Jacinta Raquel; Duarte, Filipe A P; Filho, Flavio de São PedroThis paper aims to identify and analyze the main limiting factors of innovation performance in terms of product and process innovation. The limiting factors to innovation make the innovation process of a firm difficult, which influences its innovation performance. The goal of this essay is to develop a theoretical support based on current reference approaches, corroborated by empirical support, which allows for the identification and analysis of the factors that restrict innovation activity and innovation performance. The database is extracted from the Community Innovation Survey - CIS 2010, which was conducted under the responsibility of the Office of Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations/Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (GPEARI/MCTES), in collaboration with the National Statistics Institute (INE), under the supervision of EUROSTAT. We have developed a logistic regression model that highlights the barriers to innovation and identifies the factors that limit innovation performance.The analysis suggests that several barriers to innovation influence the Innovative performance of Portuguese firms. These results may be attributed to the fact that perceived barriers stimulate the firm to overcome these difficulties, which promotes the internal propensity to innovate. The most significant barriers identified in the study are the following: high innovation costs and perceived uncertainties in both the demand and market for new goods and services. This study shows that firms that do not have either qualified personnel to carry out innovation activities or sufficient market information are less likely to innovate than firms that do not experience these difficulties.
- COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF INNOVATION, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY, PUBLIC FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND DETERMINANTS OF THE INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE OF ENTERPRISEPublication . Moura, Dulcineia Catarina; Madeira, Maria Jose; Duarte, Filipe A PThe aim of this paper is to better understand whether cooperation, absorptive capacity and public financial support for innovation activities, how they influence the innovative performance of Portuguese enterprise. The literature review focuses the importance of these three factors both drivers as the limiters process of business innovation, influencing the innovative performance of enterprise. Based on a review of the literature, hypotheses are formulated, which are tested with secondary data resources from the Community Innovation Survey 2010. This questionnaire was implemented under the supervision of EUROSTAT. The method used is the logistic regression model. The results obtained confirm that the implementation of cooperation with partners belonging to internal sources of business has a significant influence on the innovations achieved at the level of both products and processes.