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Environment Based Innovation: Policy Questions

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Argentino Pessoa () (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)
Mário Rui Silva () (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto)

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Natural resources and physical cultural resources, termed in this paper as “Environmental Resources”, can be important assets for regional competitiveness and innovation. In recent years, these kinds of assets are being more considered in regional development strategies, because they can be a source of differentiation and of new competitive advantages. In this paper we discuss the role of environmental resources in regional innovation policies. We begin by relating environmental resources with regional development and by emphasizing some opposite views in what refers to the function of environmental resources in regional development. Next we deal with the relationship between regional competitive advantages and innovation strategies. The specificities and problems that arise when the aim is to construct competitiveness advantages through environmental resources valorisation are the core of section 3. In that section, we highlight the characteristics of environmental resources and we check the applicability of the “natural resource curse” to the dynamics based on the valorisation of environmental resources. The reasons that justify the public intervention as well as difficulties concerning the adequate level of intervention (local / regional / national) are also examined. The paper ends with some conclusions and policy implications.

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Keywords: Competitiveness; Environment; Innovation; Innovation Policies; Regional Development;

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O3 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change
Q0 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General
Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
R5 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Regional Government Analysis

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