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Laboratory of Technology Policy
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 Cities, and regional development
In view of the current socio-economic context, in which innovation is a key driving force for the sustainable development, which challenges are facing technology-based development and cooperation, in a way to contribute for regional policies that stimulate localized learning, innovation and indigenous development within Less Favored Regions, LFR's? This broad question has motivated the present research, which considered the development of case studies in selected Portuguese regions, including the North, Algarve and Lisbon, and included international comparisons. It is argued that value-based networks have the potential to make both public trajectories for the inclusive development of society, but require effective public investments in intangible structures and the use of new metrics for knowledge. The analysis builds on the concept of social capital, as a relational infrastructure for collective action, in a context much influenced by a dynamic of change and a necessary balance between the creation and diffusion of knowledge.
- Technological Change and the challenges for Regional Development: building social capital in Less Favored Regions
by Pedro Conceição, Manuel Heitor and Robert Wilson [download paper]
- NAG: Norte, Abruzzo and Galicia. A Benchmarking Exercise
by Alexandra Campino, Jorge Monteiro and Danilo Rubini [download paper]
- LISBON AND TAGUS VALLEY REGION - An Econometric Analysis
by Ana Galvão, Ângela Canas, Rita Ferreira and Paulo Ribeiro [download paper]
- The Algarve: Fate and Will
by Paulo Silva Pedro Borges de Almeida [download paper]
- Building Systems of Innovation and Competence Building Through Collaborative Learning
by Pedro Conceição and Manuel Heitor [download presentation]
- Pedro Conceição and Manuel V. Heitor (2003),Techno-economic Paradigms and Latecomer Industrialization, Published in UNESCO Enciclopedia [download paper]
DIGITAL CITIES: a knowledge-based view of the territory to foster institutionally organized metropolitan systems of innovation and competence building has been developed for the analysis and forecast of “digital cities”. The analysis is based on observations in different metropolitan areas and regions with the ultimate goal of increasing regional competitiveness, by promoting public awareness and participation in decision-making processes. It is argued that the territory is a basic infrastructure that justifies and invites for the construction of several layers of information, but above all for communication infrastructures and digital contents, but well arranged with local contexts. It is suggested that knowledge driven communities, KIC´s, are importnat drivers of larger communities of users and different types of KIC´s are identified.
- Digital Cities and the challenges for a Knowledge-Based View of the Territory: evidence from Portugal
by José L. Moutinho and Manuel Heitor [download paper]
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