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The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadershi...
Mendonça, S.; Silva, E.; Damásio, B.Investing in research is an essential element in any business model in the digital age. At the forefront of this approach to innovation are digital platforms, which have resources and development strategies that enable them to enter and transform many markets outside their core activities. This work assembles a wealth of evidence to show that the omnipresence of Big Tech has now reached the science & technology...
Accounting for Oslo Manual: Reflecting on the past and setting the stage for fu...
Paredes, A.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.The Oslo Manual is the internationally recognized reference for guiding the collection and interpretation of evidence on innovation. This research explores its three-decade-long implementation and influence, emphasizing its role within the research community. We assess the content’s quantity and quality through an advanced bibliometric and textmetric analysis of over 1300 research papers published in internatio...
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?
Vasconcelos, C.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This study sheds light on the diffusion of knowledge production as an institutional norm among central, development, and investment banks. It builds on an original database of 24,435 peer-reviewed scientific items published by a pool of 237 central banks, development banks, and investment banks from 1966 to 2023. The focus is on their interactive dynamics, analysed through a two-fold approach: Granger-Causality...
Assessing critical mineral occurrence in battery technologies
Camuamba, E.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.The prevailing geopolitical context has amplified the centrality of core material inputs in the interaction between technological innovation, economic security, and the climate emergency. Battery technologies represent one of the frontiers in this evolving landscape. In this paper, we examine the link between innovation in these technologies and their material inputs, assessed in terms of mineral occurrence in ...
Institutional legacies and governance models: A comparative study of broadband ...
Manica, L.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This article explores how historical legacies and institutional configurations impact the governance models used in implementing State aid policies for broadband in France, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysis is based on historical institutionalism, focusing on path dependence, critical junctures, and gradual institutional change. A comparative historical approach shows different governance mo...
State aid for broadband network deployment: National and subnational governance...
Manica, L.; Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.This paper examines the governance models of State aid measures for broadband network deployment in European Union Member States. The research is based on 199 decision letters collected from the European Commission's competition cases database, published between 2003 and 2023. Deploying a theory-driven content analysis approach, the analysis reveals and categorises a variety of governance models. These models v...
Battery innovation and the circular economy: What are patents revealing?
Metzger, P.; Mendonça, S.; Silva, J. A.; Damásio, B.This analysis of over 90,000 secondary battery innovations (measured by international patent families) provides a comprehensive account of the long-run progress of a knowledge base with a key role in the transition to a transformative, closed-loop, Circular Economy. Innovation accelerated globally from 2000 to 2019, a sustained dynamic mostly originating in Asia. Patterns of less toxicity and more diversity in ...
Strategic encounters in innovation and regulation: Healthcare transformation in...
Mendonça, S.; Damásio, B.; Santiago, F.; Chen, M.; Santos, A. B.; Cunha, M. P.; Nicita, A.Healthcare innovations emerge and develop in institutionally dense selective environments. New projects and propositions in healthcare sectoral ecosystems can be understood as product-service compacts, that is, complex solutions that dynamically integrate tangible and intangible elements in close interaction with users’ needs and the evolving regulatory context under uncertainty and ambiguity. We advance the co...
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge p...
Mendonça, S.; Damásio, B.; Freitas, L. C. de; Oliveira, L.; Cichy, M.; Nicita, A.The advent of a new generation of wireless communications has punctuated the dawn of every decade in recent times. Upgrades to mobile electronic systems represent faster and more robust capabilities of data transfer but bring with it a wide set of complementary changes as they are underpinned by harmonised specific spectrum bands, fresh international technical standards, new network operation requirements, inno...
Modeling insurgent-incumbent dynamics: vector autoregressions, multivariate Mar...
Damásio, B.; Mendonça, S.The struggle between sail and steam is a long-standing theme in economic history. But this technological competition story has only partly tackled, since most studies have appreciated the rivalry between the two alternative modes of commercial sea carriage in the late 19th century while the early period has remained relatively under-analysed. This paper models the early dynamics between the two capital goods us...