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Public policy supporting innovation for sustainable development
Brás, Gonçalo; Robaina, MargaritaWhat are the market priorities driving public funding for innovation? Do they reflect the priorities/interests of wider society or the sustainable development agenda? The market’s failure to deliver desirable innovation outcomes aligned with sustainable development must be addressed by public policy in the scope of responsible (and research) innovation principles. Public funding for innovation must support sust...
National innovation systems and sustainable environmental performance: A cross ...
Brás, Gonçalo; Robaina, MargaritaThis research seeks to understand the role of national innovation systems (NIS) in addressing countries’ environmental performance, namely their environmental health, ecosystem vitality, and climate change. The role played by NIS in these societal challenges was tested in 130 countries through cross-sectional models using the updated data from 2022/2021. The major findings of this research revealed that NIS con...
Viability of Creating an Offshore Wind Energy Cluster: A Case Study
Junqueira, Helena; Robaina, Margarita; Garrido, Susana; Godina, Radu; C.O. Matias, JoãoRenewable energies play an important role in combating fossil fuels. The offshore wind sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in recent years and has attracted interest from investors and researchers, although the process is more complex and investments more expensive than onshore. Industry clusters have competitive advantages and a good opportunity for growth in the renewable energy sector. Considering t...
Circular economy in plastic waste: efficiency analysis of European countries
Robaina, Margarita; Murillo, Kelly; Rocha, Eugénio; Villar, JoséThe way plastics are currently produced, used and disposed does not capture the economic benefits of a more 'circular' approach and is dramatically harming the environment. It is relevant to determine which European countries can be considered more or less efficient in the end-of-life of plastic products processes, what the sources of the inefficiencies are, and how those less efficient countries could improve ...
Economic-environmental efficiency of european agriculture: a generalized maximu...
Moutinho, Victor; Robaina, Margarita; Macedo, PedroThe study aims to estimate the agricultural economic-environmental efficiency (eco-efficiency) for European countries. Eco-efficiency is obtained by the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) using a generalized maximum entropy (GME) approach. Agriculture gross value added (GVA) is considered as the desirable output and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as the undesirable output. Ca...
Eco innovation - does it differs for hospitality and restaurants?
Varum, Celeste; Madaleno, Mara; Robaina, Margarita; Dias, MartaEco-innovation activities of firms have been widely explored. However, there is a lack of analyses for services and for tourism related sectors in specific. This paper tackles this limitation, focusing on Portugal, using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). As far as possible, the patterns and determinants of eco-innovation for the hospitality and restaurants (HR) sector are analyzed, using services...
The economic and environmental efficiency assessment in EU cross-country: Evide...
Moutinho, Vítor; Madaleno, Mara; Robaina, MargaritaThis article aims to estimate the efficiency of 26 different European Countries over 2001 and 2012 comparing their performance. Data Envelopment Analysis technique is used in a first step to evaluate the performance of each European country. The output-oriented model was used with two specifications (Variable and Constant Returns to Scale) including as inputs labour and capital productivity, the weight of fossi...
ME3 2015: proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting on Energy and Environmen...
Madaleno, Mara; Robaina, Margarita; Ferreira Dias, Marta; Moutinho, Victor; Sousa, JorgeArticles successfully submitted to and presented at 2nd International Meeting on Energy and Environmental Economics, 18th September 2015 and whose authors accepted the proceedings publishing.