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- Leadership and Organization Innovation AdoptionPublication . Ferreira, Vítor Hugo Santos; Miranda, HenriqueInnovation is a tool to ensure competitiveness. Firm survival is inexorably linked to its ability to reinvent itself, obviously apart from other circumstances. Organizational innovation and its adoption are key concepts that are rarely studied. Little is known about factors related to decisions to adopt innovations and how the likelihood of adoption of innovations can be increased. This chapter aims to answer the question: what are the determinants of the adoption of organizational innovation? In this sense, this chapter aims to identify some of the organizational factors which have the capacity to influence organizational innovation in a specific case study, an innovative Portuguese company. This chapter addresses the personal dimension of the leader as a driver of organizational innovation processes. This chapter finds that, in the case study, the culture of the company which itself is driven by the CEO is fundamental for innovation and the adoption of organizational innovations.
- Supply and demand matching of VET skills - a regional case studyPublication . Lopes, Ana Sofia; Rebelo, Isabel; Santos, Rui; Costa, Rogério; Ferreira, VítorThe proper alignment between supply of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and labour market demand is critical to successfully achieve VET’s main benefits, such as reduction of academic dropout rates, unemployment reduction and economic growth. This article presents the study carried out in Leiria region (Portugal) to define VET areas priorities at the secondary education level. A mixed methodology was applied by using both quantitative (employment microdata, employers survey and employment offers analysis) and qualitative (interviews, focus groups and documents analysis) instruments and techniques. A diverse group of stakeholders (e.g. regional policymakers and private and public sectors’ employers) were heard in order to anticipate the market’s needs for skills. The results, obtained through the various methodologies, point to the same skills’ priorities and reveal several mismatches between demand and supply of qualifica-tions. Thus, this study helps policymakers to prioritize areas of education and VET providers to design courses aligned with the real needs of the region’s labour market. Additionally, several challenges are identified, as the need of a better dialogue between the VET system and employers. By increasing the quality of VET supply, our policy suggestions contribute to reduce future demand-supply imbal-ances, and therefore, to reduce unemployment, control the demographic problem, increase the companies’ expansion and promote regional development.
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: From Schumpeter to Industry 4.0Publication . Ferreira, Vítor; Lisboa, AnaInnovation is key to firms’ competitive advantage, performance, and growth. In this paper we try to briefly link the concepts of Innovation and Entrepreneurship with the emergence of a new industrial revolution that has been labeled as “Industry 4.0”, showing that as in the past a set of innovation are the main drivers for the change of the technical and social paradigm. We summarize a number of concepts to show that the key drivers of competitiveness are Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
- Knowledge and technology transfer between university — Industry — Society: A new crowdsourcing framework for Internet of ThingsPublication . Dias, D.; Silva, J. Sa; Boavida, F.; Ferreira, V.The emergence of the Web 2.0 created new opportunities for knowledge transfer between University – Industry – Society, such as the crowdsourcing phenomenon which has attracted great attention, and has created new possibilities for knowledge transfer that are still being evaluated. However, much of the existing academic research remains unused and unleveraged after being published, never creating the benefits for society that were expected from both the effort that was put in to produce it and the cost that was supported to allow for the research. This paper seeks to present a critical literature review evaluating the existing knowledge transfer mechanisms and pair it with the new possibilities created by Internet of Things to propose a new knowledge and technology transfer framework between University – Industry – Society that better leverages the usefulness of existing published research and applies it to the creation of new innovative solutions, thus creating an alternative knowledge transfer mechanism.
- Leadership Effects in Product and Process Management Through Knowledge ManagementPublication . Ferreira, Vítor; Espírito Santo, Pedro; Espírito Santo, LídiaCompanies face an increasingly strict demanding and competitive environment. Firms that want stand out in the business world should create strategies to be, day after day, better when compared to with their competitors. Process management in companies is assumed as critical, given that in a constantly changing environment, the adaptation and efficient management of processes with a continuous improvement focus may bring remarkable benefits to the companies. As several studies have highlighted, the continuous improvement of the firm is dependent on the commitment of top management and its leadership. At the same time knowledge management practices are essential for this process. This study analyzes the effects of leadership in process management through knowledge management. Thus, using a sample of 187 companies, this investigation analyzed trough structural equation modeling the impact of this variables on process management efficiency. Despite having had some practical limitations, we find that leadership is a key variable in determining knowledge management. Furthermore, this research showed that knowledge management has influence over the management processes in companies from the viewpoint of continuous improvement.