Territorial resilience on the aftermaths of COVID‐19 crisis—An exploratory analysis on the role of innovation

• Author(s): Sargento, Ana ; Lopes, Ana Sofia
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/8718
• Origin: IC-online
• Subject(s): regional resistance; regional recovery; R&I networks; unemployment; COVID-19
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório IC-Online

Description

This study examines the impact of different regional determinants on heterogeneous territorial resilience to COVID-19 crisis, highlighting the role of innovation, particularly, the engagement of research and innovation (R&I) entities in networks with businesses. Two OLS models were separately estimated for the resistance and the recovery phases, complemented by a multinomial logistic model, applied to test for a non-linear relationship between R&I networks and territorial resilience. Results are robust concerning the positive influence on municipalities’ resistance and recovery of having R&I entities collaborating in innovation consortia. Education, stability and sectoral diversification of local labor market are also essential for regions to be able to resist to the crisis but seem not important for recovery. Finally, international trade openness and pre-crisis labor performance penalizes both resistance and recovery from downturns.