Capacidade Territorial de Inovação: O Desempenho Europeu

Abstract

The economic capacity of a territory is associated to his innovation dynamics and it depends on characteristics and specific factors to each territory. The aim of this paper is to analyze the innovation capacity of the European countries, basing on European Innovation data Scoreboard 2004 regarding 33 countries. Using clusters analysis to verify how the different countries studied are positioned regarding the patent registration indicators we determine which factors distinguish between these groups of countries in terms of 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.