[PDF] Top 20 Barriers to Innovation and Innovative Performance of Portuguese Firms

... Community Innovation Survey - CIS 2010, conducted under the responsibility of the Office of Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations/Ministry of Science, Technology ... See full document

... Some of the barriers experienced by firms during the development of innovation activities affect the success of firms when it comes to process ...Thus, firms ... See full document

... forces and socio- economic impacts of innovation and entrepreneurship (see Nijkamp 2009a, 2009b; Stimson et ...which innovation has been a critical parameter of human ... See full document

... volume of government support to mitigate financial barriers has increased substantially in the last ...spectrum of firms, as there were new financial tools to support ...shift ... See full document

... basis of transformational leadership is that leaders have the ability to motivate subordinates to overfulfill their mission, thus this kind of leadership has been described as a number ... See full document

... Clementi and Hopenhayn (2006) developed a framework in which financial constraints appear as a consequence of asymmetric information between a borrower and a ..., and the working capital, k t ... See full document

... type of individuals that possess the capability to detect the difference between existing facts and what they intend to achieve (Ayub et ...is to challenge status quo through competent ... See full document

... Generating innovation with environmental impact is crucial for firms to achieve sustainable eco-innovative ...open innovation, gaps still persist at the level of scarce ... See full document

... us to draw two types of conclusion. One relates to the innovation strategy adopted by firms, the other to the implications of these different strategies on firms’ ... See full document

... period of analysis. A Panel data SUR model is used to estimate total compensation and cash compensation as a proportion of total pay for the period between 2000 and ...accommodation ... See full document

... independence of the board of directors, results are mixed: using accounting variables to measure the performance the impact is negative as expected in hypothesis 2 but using a market-based ... See full document

... awareness of digital trends and ...plans to address digital challenges and no clear targets for the future in this ...digitized and there is no investment in digital ... See full document

... models barriers to energy efficiency in Portuguese industries employing cross section ...forces to the adoption of energy efficiency measures, based on other previous studies, namely on ... See full document

... state of the economy has long been indicated as an important force driving firms out of business (Geroski et ...leading firms to exit if an unfavourable environment is ...responsive ... See full document

... development of solid configuration-based theories is an aspect that deserves further attention by researchers interested in enhancing the fit between theory and measurement ...type of analysis will ... See full document

... So to say, the environment appears as a critical factor for the development or atrophy of the enterprise in all studies ...effect of the SMEs’ environment on innovative activities is observed ... See full document

... aspect of PSI-performance analyses in need of ...theory and measurement. Such analysis will help to integrate theory and empirical research and to consolidate the ... See full document

... propensity to innovate and established cooperation with partners from other sources – ...realization of cooperation with partners belonging to other sources is positively associated with the ... See full document

... the innovative firm, for example from customers, research institutes, suppliers, competitors or companies from adjacent markets (Tagwerker-Sturm, ...contributions of external parties can vary in their ... See full document

... economic and financial crisis has brought firms, territories and countries before a set of restrictions to a greater or lesser extent, function as the conditioners of economic ... See full document