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Science and Technology Infrastructure building: the case of a textile industrial district in Portugal
| Resumo: | The creation and mediation of information and knowledge for social and economic development depends on physical and immaterial conditions that enable and facilitate the flow, processing and exploitation of such information and knowledge. The concept of Science and Technology Infrastructure (Teubal, 1997) is intimately linked with the capabilities to perform those functions. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the evolution of the Science and Technology Infrastructure (STI) in a Portuguese region where the textile sector is heavily concentrated (approximately 62% of the region's firms are textile firms). In this evaluation an effort is made to characterise the STI in relation with structural characteristics and demand factors of the regional industrial fabric, to analyse the interactions between the several actors of the system and to evaluate the degree of interaction of the regional system with other national and international institutions or programmes. The methodology is based on the assumption that the interactions and the network relations between the several actors involved are the fundamental key to the efficient transformation and exploitation of information and knowledge. It is inspired in the Innovation Systems multidisciplinary conceptual and theoretical body (Edquist, 1997). As such, the collection of information behind this study incluide the identification and use of indicators of the dynamics and the interactions of the system. Data and information was retrieved through documented sources as well as from semi-structured interviews. |
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| Autores principais: | Romero, Fernando |
| Assunto: | Science and Technology infrastructure Textile sector Innovation systems |
| Ano: | 2000 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The creation and mediation of information and knowledge for social and economic development depends on physical and immaterial conditions that enable and facilitate the flow, processing and exploitation of such information and knowledge. The concept of Science and Technology Infrastructure (Teubal, 1997) is intimately linked with the capabilities to perform those functions. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the evolution of the Science and Technology Infrastructure (STI) in a Portuguese region where the textile sector is heavily concentrated (approximately 62% of the region's firms are textile firms). In this evaluation an effort is made to characterise the STI in relation with structural characteristics and demand factors of the regional industrial fabric, to analyse the interactions between the several actors of the system and to evaluate the degree of interaction of the regional system with other national and international institutions or programmes. The methodology is based on the assumption that the interactions and the network relations between the several actors involved are the fundamental key to the efficient transformation and exploitation of information and knowledge. It is inspired in the Innovation Systems multidisciplinary conceptual and theoretical body (Edquist, 1997). As such, the collection of information behind this study incluide the identification and use of indicators of the dynamics and the interactions of the system. Data and information was retrieved through documented sources as well as from semi-structured interviews. |
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