<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nuno Boavida</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">{Portugal e a economia do conhecimento: A despesa empresarial em Investigação e Desenvolvimento [Portugal and knowledge economy: the business R&amp;D expenditures]}</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">business R&amp;D</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">knowledge intensive industries</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">technology intensity</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ideas.repec.org/p/ieu/wpaper/03.html</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/2008</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The objective of the paper is to contribute to the understanding of the knowledge economy in Portugal, presenting data and revealing specific characteristics of the Portuguese business R&amp;amp;D, using a framework of available tools such as international comparisons, technology intensity and sectors of the economy. This study concludes that Portuguese business R&amp;amp;D expenditures reveals strong elements of economic terciarization, and an important presence of foreign direct investment in knowledge intensive industries. Furthermore, the study revealed less significant determinants such as the existence of skill labour in pharmaceutical industries and the role of the state in some sectors (wealth and rail transportation).&lt;/p&gt;
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