KIBS Innovation Management Capability in Rural Portuguese Regions: Empirical Evidence

Cristina Fernandes, Joao Ferreira and Carla Marques

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Abstract: This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and verify to what extent these companies return different profiles when classified by urban versus rural. Taking a sample of 500 KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities. From the set of five dimensions studied, factors relating strategy, learning, and network best explained rural versus urban KIBS innovation capacities.

Keywords: Innovation; Knowledge intensive business; Innovation Capacity; Rural versus Urban. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 M1 M10 M20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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