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Abstract(s)
Innovation has moved to the foreground in regional policy in the three last
decades. Public policies have been shaped by ābest practice modelsā 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 RegiĆ£o 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.
The paper will then proceed with an outline of the Portuguese innovation system and an
overview of the regional innovative performance, as well as a description of the
institutional and economic fabric that supports it, including an analysis of its
functionality and dynamic, taking RegiĆ£o Centro as a case study. A particular focus will
be put upon the drivers of regional innovation. Finally, the author will focus some
specificities that need to be addressed in the redesign of public interventions in order to
improve regional competitiveness and sustainability, leaving new insights about
possible policy interventions in peripheral regions.
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Regional innovation systems Innovation policy S&T policy Peripheral regions RegiĆ£o Centro Portugal
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Santos, D. (2018), Building regional innovation systems in peripheral regions: lessons from the RegiĆ£o Centro, Portugal, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Regional Science, Valencia, AECR. ISBN 978-84-09-05604-0.
Publisher
AsociaciĆ³n EspaƱola de Ciencia Regional