Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers Creation-Date: 2011-07-28 Number: 11-107/3 Author-Name: Purificacion Vicente Galindo Author-Workplace-Name: University of Salamanca, Spain, and Centro de Investigacao sobre o Espaco e as Organizacoes Author-Name: Teresa de Noronha Vaz Author-Workplace-Name: Centro de Investigacao sobre o Espaco e as Organizacoes, and University of the Algarve, Portugal Author-Name: Peter Nijkamp Author-Workplace-Name: VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Institutional Capacity to dynamically innovate: An Application to the Portuguese Case Abstract: The present paper addresses the dynamics of innovation, by extending the analysis beyond a static-economic perspective. It offers a dynamic-institutional mapping of relational capacities to dynamically innovate. Its main goal is to contribute to the above-mentioned research theme by presenting a new methodology able to pinpoint different trends in the relational capacities of institutions when they are innovative. Thereby, major characteristics in the networks of innovation are identified. This investigation uses an extended set of private institutions and public organizations located in Portugal, evaluated by their WebPage contents. To this data set a new combination of multivariate statistical methods is applied to detect group performances, to compare them, and to identify gradients of capacity to dynamically innovate. The results demonstrate that this method can provide extremely useful and tailor-made information for policy evaluation at regional or national levels.

See also the article in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2011). Volume 78(1), pages 3-12. Classification-JEL: Q5 Keywords: dynamic innovation, policy evaluation File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/11107.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 338493 bytes Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20110107