Maria José Silva

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the barriers to innovation that influence the innovation capability of Portuguese manufacturing firms and propose public policies to overcome the restraining factors of the entrepreneurial innovative capability and to promote business excellence at the firm level, especially alternative financing sources, incentives for innovation activities and open innovation networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, a literature review about innovation makes use of two references approaches: (i) the systemic; and (ii) the networks and inter-organizational relationships, to identify the barriers to innovation that influence the innovation capability of Portuguese industrial firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework is considered, which comprises the characterization of marketing innovation, as well as the determinants that underlie it, based on the literature several research hypotheses are formulated, which are tested using secondary data provided by the "Observatorio da Ciencia e do Ensino Superior - OCES" - Observatory of Science and Higher Education, belonging to the "4o Inquerito Comunitario a Inovacao - CIS 4"- 4th Community Innovation Survey-CIS, supervised by EUROSTAT.

TL;DR: In this article, a literature review on innovation makes use of two approaches: (1) systemic and (2) networks and interorganisational relationships, and the theoretical approach developed supports the basic idea that innovation is an evolutionary, nonlinear and interactive process established between the firm and the environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and analyse the degree of importance of the determinant factors of innovation capability of Portuguese industrial firms, at a product innovation level, using the data obtained through the 2rd Community Innovation Survey (CIS II) conducted by EUROSTAT.