[PDF] Top 20 Innovation in tourism: the role of regional innovation systems

... growth of American watering-place (…) seems to be as much regulated by law as the growth of asparagus and strawberries, and is almost as easy to ...foretell. The place is usually discovered by ... See full document

... observation of Table 2 illustrates some structural divergences between the Centro Region (a Moderate + Innovator), Portugal (a Moderate Innovator) and the European ...that the regional ... See full document

... On the other hand one finds a more narrow definition of the mode of innovation as S(cience), T(echnology) and I(nnovation) based on the use of codified scientific ... See full document

... improving the “interpretability” of the RIS construct, with only a 13 per cent variability ...is, the extracted factors are not only consistent but also interpretable in terms of ... See full document

... from the interviews with experts and policymakers suggest that the role of indicators and, more generally, of evidence varies ...substantially. In fact, according to some ... See full document

... that the decision-makers are correct when concluding that firms, also the smaller ones, are job creators and engines of economic ...for the precise role that firms play in ... See full document

... by innovation and technological ...that the sectoral characteristics of an economy affect the direction, nature and intensity of innovation (Pavitt ...an innovation system ... See full document

... purpose of this introduction to the special issue was to analyse the growing importance of location competitiveness from an entrepreneurship and innovation ...perspective. The ... See full document

... to the generation of public policies capable to improve the main identified gaps and enhance those that are positive for the region and for the promotion of a ...Although ... See full document

... Aside of the original functions each sector acquires the qualities and characteristics of the other ...two. The state becomes a collaborator, “enabler” (Etzkowitz, Leydesdorff, ... See full document

... (2009), the wine tourist is a person with needs to relate to both wine and the location (wine region) where wine is ...produced. In a broader context wine tourism may be linked to other ... See full document

... explores the evolution of the concept of the information ...identified the role of the formation of global innovation ...networks. The ... See full document

... tools of planning and management control in order to assist the improvement of their ...evidence of the e®ectiveness of these tools on the obtained results by ... See full document

... commonalities: the same language, common “codes” of communication and shared conventions and norms…” (Asheim and Gertler, 2005: 293) The regional dimension also generates a more “focused” ... See full document

... enables the intelligence gathering activity of YLife’s innovation ...is the combination of different areas of expertise. The brainstorming meetings of the ... See full document

... on the contribution of innovation to regional ...Institutional innovation profiles and regional patterns of innovation are two mutually linked, novel conceptual ... See full document

... objective of the regional strategy is the economic development on the long ...and the economic growth often appear as secondary compared to the objectives that are ... See full document

... to the propensity of the scientists to commercialize their research contributing with the knowledge spillover (Audretsch & Aldridge, 2009), to analyze patent families, patents that refer ... See full document

... on the four dimensions of CRM activities or prac- tices: long-term partnership, information sharing, customer involvement, and tech- nology-based ...CRM systems can provide several ben- efits to ... See full document

... performance of firms increases with a balance between high internal R&D investment, highly educated human resources and an active collaboration with different types of partners, ...and the ... See full document