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The concept of the smart city gained increasing expression and has become an intensely discussed ... more The concept of the smart city gained increasing expression and has become an intensely discussed field in the recent past among, either the research community, either the political stakeholders. In this paper, the importance of deepening the understanding about smart cities entrepreneurial ecosystems is explored. This involves working on existing knowledge about smart cities but extending its application to entrepreneurship and innovation. This paper aims, first, to contribute to shed light on the meaning of the word smart in the context of urban developmentthrough an approach based on an in-depth literature review of pertinent studies and then, to establish the links with the determinants of entrepreneurship that can help guide more effective urban development policies. Furthermore, the paper underlines the critical importance of being innovative and entrepreneurial in the approach for smart cities, aiming to deepen and improve policy-making on the subject of promoting entrepreneur...
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Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public polic... more Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last decades. Public policies have been shaped by “best practice models” derived from hightech urban-metropolitan areas and successful territories. Nevertheless, 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 seldom been the subjects of discussion. The main objective of the article is precisely to take Região Centro, in 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, now that longterm regional competitiveness and sustainability has less to do with cost-efficiency and more to do with the ability of firms and institutions to innovate, or, in broader terms, to upgrade their knowledge base. Th...
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La resiliencia ha surgido como un concepto valioso en el campo del desarrollo local y regional; s... more La resiliencia ha surgido como un concepto valioso en el campo del desarrollo local y regional; sin embargo, el debate rara vez se centra en pequeños territorios periféricos que enfrentan problemas estructurales de desarrollo. El estudio de caso de Vila Velha de Ródão, un pequeño municipio de la Región Centro, Portugal, tiene como objetivo traer a la discusión no solo la importancia de la resiliencia como un activo estratégico en territorios socioeconómicos frágiles, sino también el potencial que esto implica para investigar los bloqueos y oportunidades para hacer frente a los cambios estructurales y anticipar caminos de desarrollo más competitivos y sostenibles. Frente a un fenómeno de despoblación aguda, asociado a un proceso de envejecimiento, Vila Velha de Ródão ha logrado, en las últimas décadas, crear, mantener y, últimamente, expandir su tejido industrial, basado fundamentalmente en su micro clúster de la pulpa y el papel. Si solo se analiza por la capacidad de crear empleo, ...
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Culture has become increasingly central to the rhetoric of territorial development, but it has no... more Culture has become increasingly central to the rhetoric of territorial development, but it has not always been translated into the renewal of intervention strategies and practices. In this article, it is argued that in Portugal local cultural policies should have a strong territorial or endogenous configuration, aiming at the valorization of local assets and qualification of communities. Given some of the most relevant challenges in the portuguese context of local development, some guiding principles to which a cultural policy needs to respond effectively, as well as the main dimensions that should give them form and content, will be analyzed.A cultura tem vindo a assumir crescente centralidade na retórica do desenvolvimento territorial, nem sempre se traduzindo, todavia, na renovação de estratégias e práticas de intervenção. Neste artigo, sugere-se que as políticas culturais de âmbito local devem revestir um claro figurino territorialista, ou endógeno, porque só assim poderão assum...
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Entrepreneurship and Structural Change in Dynamic Territories, 2018
Long-term rural competitiveness and sustainability have increasingly less to do with cost-efficie... more Long-term rural competitiveness and sustainability have increasingly less to do with cost-efficiency along the traditional agriculture filiere and more to do with the ability of firms and institutions to innovate in terms of its portfolio of goods and services, namely the way rural territories build up their competitive advantages on the basis of their heritage.
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Higher education institutions are more and more engaged in strategies to promote entrepreneurship... more Higher education institutions are more and more engaged in strategies to promote entrepreneurship among their students and teachers. They have been implementing different instruments to attain that aim: from business incubation centers to start-ups support, from academic entrepreneurship contests to coaching methodologies. The studies about this field of activity are mainly concerned with the role students can undertake to initiate business projects based on innovation. Less attention, on the contrary, has been put on the teachers’ side, their perceptions about entrepreneurship, and the way higher education institutions are addressing this important group what remains unknown is how higher education institutions are preparing teachers for these entrepreneurship opportunities. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the perspectives regarding entrepreneurship of Portuguese polytechnic teachers on the context of their institutions, the types of entrepreneurial profile teachers poss...
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No presente artigo descreve-se uma plataforma europeia de disseminacao de recursos sobre a preven... more No presente artigo descreve-se uma plataforma europeia de disseminacao de recursos sobre a prevencao do abandono escolar precoce: School Safety Net (SSN). Procede-se a uma resenha descritiva e informativa desta rede nacional e europeia, privilegiando alguns dos seus principios de organizacao: ser um espaco de partilha de experiencias de professores, academicos e educadores sociais e apresentar o potencial de ser simultaneamente usado como uma comunidade de aprendizagem de diversos atores em educacao: decisores politicos, diretores de escolas e agrupamentos, professores, alunos e pais ou encarregados de educacao. Concomitantemente apresenta-se sumariamente a tipologia de recursos disponibilizados em linha e salienta-se a logica de comunidade educativa aberta a outras entidades (parceiros associados). Neste âmbito apresentam-se os passos de envolvimento de professores e escolas como base da logica de partilha de um projeto europeu que e desenvolvido com financiamento ao longo de dois ...
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Journal for Educators, Teachers and Trainers, 2016
The concept of entrepreneurship is currently assumed to be a cross competence, fundamental for hu... more The concept of entrepreneurship is currently assumed to be a cross competence, fundamental for human, social and economic development. However, it has traditionally been associated with economic and business areas, although we have been witnessing a gradual change this design. In the last decade there has been a growing defense role of education in development of entrepreneurial skills, as these can and should be learned and developed very early. This appreciation of the role of education in development of entrepreneurial skills prints a new responsibility to educational institutions, particularly to higher education. It is precisely the entrepreneurial education in higher education that this article talks. The article gives the example of two centers (Learning and Development Center for Children - CeADIn; Science, Tradition & Culture Center - CT&C), from the same institution of higher education, albeit with different organizational structure, strategies, have some common points as ...
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This paper presents the main results of an in-depth pioneer research project in the study of digi... more This paper presents the main results of an in-depth pioneer research project in the study of digital cities and regions in Portugal. Unlike many other researches that subscribe a technocentric approach, in this research a more sophisticated theoretical framework was adopted focusing on institutional and organizational, as well as on technological factors that, in their inter-relation, influence the outcomes of the different cities and regions. Strengths and weaknesses of the digital cities and regions projects in Portugal are identified, comprising their conception and accomplishment. We also present a set of recommendations which can contribute to the debate and to social learning processes regarding policy formulation, project design and implementation as well as the practices of regional actors in Portugal and other countries of EU. Another primordial objective of the authors is to extend the theoretical and conceptual reflection; we propose namely that the digital cities and reg...
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Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management, 2021
Purpose The purpose of this paper is three-fold. The first objective is to contextualize and clar... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is three-fold. The first objective is to contextualize and clarify the concepts of regional innovation systems and entrepreneurship, addressing their differences and complementarities and suggesting an analytical filter to enhance their understanding. The second aim is to question and analyse the challenges this renewed approach brings to the domain of territorial policy, namely, the role it may bring to local and regional development strategies, opening up the way for a set of public policy interventions on the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation promotion. Finally, the paper presents and analyses the example of Coimbra, a medium-sized city in Portugal, underlining both the role of academia and the Instituto Pedro Nunes-Incubator have had on these domains. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a case study approach, with an in-depth descriptive and exploratory analysis of the Coimbra entrepreneurial ecosystem. Findings The paper a...
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Lucrările Seminarului Geografic "Dimitrie Cantemir", 2019
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International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, 2019
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Investigaciones Regionales, 2014
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A intervenção no campo cultural a nível municipal em Portugal é, ainda, uma atividade em estrutur... more A intervenção no campo cultural a nível municipal em Portugal é, ainda, uma atividade em estruturação, com uma significativa dimensão experimentalista, a que, não raras vezes, está associado um défice de reflexão teórica e analítica. Neste artigo, sustenta-se que as políticas culturais autárquicas devem revestir um claro figurino territorialista, ou endógeno, porque só assim poderão constituir-se como verdadeiros instrumentos de valorização dos ativos locais e de qualificação das comunidades. Face a alguns dos mais pertinentes desafios existentes no contexto português de desenvolvimento local, serão enunciados dez princípios orientadores básicos a que uma política cultural municipal, de matriz endógena, precisa de responder eficazmente, bem como as principais características que lhe devem transmitir forma e conteúdo
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