Factors and Dimensions of National Innovative Capacity

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Author(s): Maria Manuela Santos Natário (Polytechnics Institute of Guarda, Portugal), João Pedro Almeida Couto (University of the Azores, Portugal), Maria Teresa Borges Tiago (University of the Azores, Portugal)and Ascensão Maria Martins Braga (Polytechnics Institute of Guarda, Portugal)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 13
Source title: Innovation in Business and Enterprise: Technologies and Frameworks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Latif Al-Hakim (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)and Chen Jin (Zhejiang University, China)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-643-8.ch007

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / E-Business / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

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A country’s national economic capacity depends on that country’s institutional efficiency, its national culture, and its Innovation framework. This chapter reflects upon the factors that influence national innovative capacity, based on the European Innovation Scoreboard database. By using clusters analysis to verify how different countries are positioned in terms of patent registration indicators, we determine which factors distinguish their innovative capacity. The results point to the existence of four groups of countries, and the factors identified point to aspects related to the institutional efficiency, the societies’ cultural values associated with the level of hierarchy or “power distance” and with aspects such as the level of population with tertiary education and the percentages of expenses with research and development applied by the companies.

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