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Standards behaviours face to innovation of the
entrepreneurships of Beira Interior
Maria Manuela Santos Natario1; Paulo Alexandre Neto2; Felisberto Marques Reigado3
1- Polytechnics Institute of Guarda; Department of Social and Human Sciences, Portugal; e-
mail:[email protected]
2- University of Évora, Department of Economics, Portugal; e-mail: [email protected]
3- Portugal, e-mail: [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Accord Aydalot (1986), the firm in no heaven-sent agent free to “choose” an
environment, it is secrete by its environment. The firm is not an isolated innovative
agent but is part of the milieu, which makes it act. The competitive and innovative
performance of the territory, territories more or less competitive and innovative,
requires persistence and participation of the different actors: companies, institutions of
support and assistance to the company’s activity, public institutions.
We do not have the ambition to cover the whole different actors, but illustrate the
approach that reflect the better performance innovative of the companies is associate to
different factors of the environment milieu and evaluate the determinant conditions of
participation in innovation activities. Our purpose is to analyse the behaviour of the
companies of 3 NUTS III of Beira Interior of Portugal, relatively to the innovative
initiatives. We use a survey applied to vast set of companies. The methodology is based
on the application of the multivariate statistics: k-means analysis clusters that allowed
distinguish 3 standard behaviours from the companies. To classify the standard
behaviour of the companies and identify the characteristics of each cluster, we applied
the crosstabs and compare means. We consider the fowling attributes to the different
clusters: process of innovation, the mechanisms of knowledge, the networks and the
system of governance. These attributes will help to trace the profile of the innovative
behaviours and to perceive which the factors or variables of the environment those are
links with the best performance on innovation.
1- Introduction
The competitive and innovative performance of the territory depends on the persistence
and attitude of the different actors (public and private) toward promoting innovation and
competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze what extent the companies of
the 3 NUTS III of Beira Interior1 (BI) (Beira Interior Norte, Beira Interior Sul and Cova
da Beira) have been involved in fomenting innovation and competitiveness. We used a
1 The 3 NUTS III of Beira Interior of Portugal are the sub-regions (NUTS III), of the Interior Central
Region: Beira Interior Norte (BIN), Beira Interior Sul (BIS) and Cova da Beira (CB) (Raia Central
Portuguesa-RCP)