Papers by Margarida Fontes
CECS - Publicações / eBooks, Jun 17, 2013
Finisterra, 2022
RESUMO-A urgência climática e questões mais conjunturais como pandemias e guerras apontam para a ... more RESUMO-A urgência climática e questões mais conjunturais como pandemias e guerras apontam para a necessidade de acelerar a transição sustentável e, particularmente, o desenvolvimento e implementação de novas tecnologias de energias renováveis. Essa aceleração depende crucialmente da capacidade de mobilizar recursos e competências existentes no território. A passagem a uma fase comercial coloca desafios importantes, que podem ser enfrentados com base nas capacidades adquiridas na fase inicial de experimentação, cujos efeitos permanecem pouco estudados. Portugal tem uma experiência longa no desenvolvimento de tecnologias de energias renováveis marinhas-energia das ondas e energia eólica offshore flutuante. Importa agora compreender, através de uma análise longitudinal suportada na construção de uma base de dados dos atores envolvidos, se as atividades conduzidas ao longo da fase inicial de desenvolvimento permitiram começar a mobilizar a indústria nacional e gerar núcleos sectoriais e regionais de atividade que possam suportar uma evolução futura. As análises apontam para a importância dos projetos de teste e demonstração na mobilização de empresas de sectores relevantes, embora a capacidade para atrair empresas locais seja ainda limitada, e revelam redes de empresas distribuídas pelo território, com predominância das principais áreas metropolitanas. Estes resultados podem informar estratégias para acelerar a difusão destas tecnologias, contribuindo para a transformação industrial. Palavras-chave: Geografia das transições; sistemas tecnológicos de inovação; complementaridades sectoriais; transformação industrial; energias marinhas.
Finisterra, 2024
The study investigates the variety in place configurations around a sustainable technology, in it... more The study investigates the variety in place configurations around a sustainable technology, in its early phase of development. Adopting a systemic and multi-scalar approach to technology development, this article proposes that the spatially distributed nature of technology emergence leads to the formation of different place configurations of actors and networks around the technology, which can contribute in different ways to its development. Using the case of wave energy technology and a methodology that permits to encompass and compare emergent processes unfolding across Europe, the research uncovers five place profiles, which denote different positions in the emerging system and thus need to be jointly considered to fully understand the process of new system development. The article adds to knowledge on the multi-place and multi-scale systemic processes that are at work in the early phases of technology development, contributing to a better understanding of global system construction around a new sustainable technology.
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Oct 26, 2019
The paper investigates the construction of strategies aiming to up-scale low-carbon innovations f... more The paper investigates the construction of strategies aiming to up-scale low-carbon innovations from pilot to full commercial scale. This requires a systemic understanding of the evolution of the technology along with the organizations and infrastructures supporting its development. Technological innovation systems concepts operationalize system building processes, including the establishment of constituent elements and the performance of key innovation activities. The study surveys the national roadmaps published between 2009 and 2014 for offshore wind energy in deepwaters (more than 50 meters deep) which inform on how actors expect the system to grow, including the innovation activities crucial to achieve it. The roadmaps point to the role of guidance and legitimacy as triggers of changes in other innovation processes (knowledge creation, experimentation and so on) needed for takeoff. The analysis reveals that the growth plans conveyed in the roadmaps are overly optimistic when compared with the time taken to develop offshore wind energy in fixed structures for shallow waters. Several countries have adopted supporting policies following the publication of the roadmaps, but weaknesses in crucial innovation processes (e.g. specialized skills) and external factors (e.g. crisis, regulatory approval) resulted in a delay of the first large investments. Policy should be based on realistic expectations and adequate to the phase of innovation, such as the promotion of technology-specific institutions (standards, codes, regulations and so on) in technology up-scaling. New directions for research are also provided.
BRQ Business Research Quarterly, Apr 1, 2020
The purpose of this article is twofold: to bring back to discussion the importance of strategy as... more The purpose of this article is twofold: to bring back to discussion the importance of strategy as a key element for international new ventures (INVs) to achieve higher international performance and to assess the relevance of contingency perspective, particularly two organizational contingency factors (internationalization duration and internationalization preparation), in moderating the strategy-performance relationship. The framework developed addresses the effects of four competitive strategies (cost leadership and innovation-based, marketing-based, and quality-and service-based differentiation) as determinants of INVs' international performance. In addition, internationalization duration and internationalization preparation are included as moderators of these relationships. The hypotheses were tested using a sample of 319 INVs. The findings show that marketing and quality and service differentiation strategies are associated with higher INVs' international performance and that internationalization duration and internationalization preparation play relevant moderating effects.
International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2024
The objective of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding
of the various roles playe... more The objective of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding
of the various roles played by research-based spin-offs (RBSOs) in knowledge
dissemination. It investigates if RBSOs act as connectors and knowledge
translators, both between different types of organisations within an innovation
ecosystem and across different geographical scales and knowledge
environments. This latter role has been relatively less investigated but is
important to open local innovation ecosystems. The paper analyses the
networks formed by Portuguese RBSOs in the context of research, technology
and product development projects. The results suggest that RBSOs play an
intermediary role in the country’s innovation ecosystem, which can assume
different forms. In the national networks, they frequently bridge research and
downstream organisations, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge
within the ecosystem. In the international networks, their most important role
may be as connectors and conveyors of advanced knowledge produced in
external knowledge environments.
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021
European Management Journal, Jun 1, 2022
This research is based on the perception that the explanation of International New Ventures' (INV... more This research is based on the perception that the explanation of International New Ventures' (INVs) performance demands a process view, going deeper than the standard approach, in empirical papers, of testing a direct relationship between company-level antecedents and performance. A three-tier model was developed to investigate the process leading to INVs international performance, emphasizing the role of entrepreneurial alertness. Based on the dynamic capabilities framework, entrepreneurial alertness was envisaged as the mediating element between firms' capabilities and their international performance. Empirical research confirmed the hypothesized model. Firms' capabilities (entrepreneurial orientation, foreign market knowledge, and absorptive capacity) significantly influence the level of entrepreneurial alertness, which impacts on the levels of self-reported satisfaction with the company's international performance. The paper makes four contributions to International Entrepreneurship literature. First, it highlights the key role played by entrepreneurial alertness in explaining INVs' international performance. This is convergent with the dynamic capabilities view on firms' ability to sense and seize specific international business opportunities. Second, this study considers entrepreneurial alertness as a capability that is not limited to the entrepreneur, but it is an organizational capability. Third, it shows that entrepreneurial alertness does not exist in the vacuum, is based on a set of base capabilities, namely entrepreneurial orientation, foreign market knowledge, and absorptive capacity, that simultaneously leverage the INVs to sense possible opportunities and constrain the focus of opportunities to international markets, as a key element to foster INVs' higher performance. Fourth, it underlines the role of technological turbulence as a moderator of the relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and INVs' international performance.
Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Sep 1, 2021
Proceedings of the European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2021, 2021
No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual ... more No reproduction, copy or transmission may be made without written permission from the individual authors. Review Process Papers submitted to this conference have been double-blind peer reviewed before final acceptance to the conference. Initially, abstracts were reviewed for relevance and accessibility and successful authors were invited to submit full papers. Many thanks to the reviewers who helped ensure the quality of all the submissions. Ethics and Publication Malpractice Policy ACIL adheres to a strict ethics and publication malpractice policy for all publications -details of which can be found here: Self-Archiving and Paper Repositories We actively encourage authors of papers in ACIL conference proceedings and journals to upload their published papers to university repositories and research bodies such as ResearchGate and Academic.edu. Full reference to the original publication should be provided. The Conference Proceedings is a book published with an ISBN and ISSN. The proceedings have been submitted to a number of accreditation, citation and indexing bodies including Thomson ISI Web of Science and Elsevier Scopus. Author affiliation details in these proceedings have been reproduced as supplied by the authors themselves. The Electronic version of the Conference Proceedings is available to download from DROPBOX Select Download and then Direct Download to access the Pdf file. Free download is available for conference participants for a period of 2 weeks after the conference.
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Papers by Margarida Fontes
of the various roles played by research-based spin-offs (RBSOs) in knowledge
dissemination. It investigates if RBSOs act as connectors and knowledge
translators, both between different types of organisations within an innovation
ecosystem and across different geographical scales and knowledge
environments. This latter role has been relatively less investigated but is
important to open local innovation ecosystems. The paper analyses the
networks formed by Portuguese RBSOs in the context of research, technology
and product development projects. The results suggest that RBSOs play an
intermediary role in the country’s innovation ecosystem, which can assume
different forms. In the national networks, they frequently bridge research and
downstream organisations, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge
within the ecosystem. In the international networks, their most important role
may be as connectors and conveyors of advanced knowledge produced in
external knowledge environments.
of the various roles played by research-based spin-offs (RBSOs) in knowledge
dissemination. It investigates if RBSOs act as connectors and knowledge
translators, both between different types of organisations within an innovation
ecosystem and across different geographical scales and knowledge
environments. This latter role has been relatively less investigated but is
important to open local innovation ecosystems. The paper analyses the
networks formed by Portuguese RBSOs in the context of research, technology
and product development projects. The results suggest that RBSOs play an
intermediary role in the country’s innovation ecosystem, which can assume
different forms. In the national networks, they frequently bridge research and
downstream organisations, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge
within the ecosystem. In the international networks, their most important role
may be as connectors and conveyors of advanced knowledge produced in
external knowledge environments.