REGIMES OF COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION: APPLICATION TO THE PORTUGUESE COLLABORATIVE LABORATORIES 2018-2022

Recognising collaboration as a privileged innovation strategy for tackling complex problems, public policies aimed at strengthening the institutional basis of the Science and Technology System have contributed to the institutionalisation of new forms of collaboration between the public and private sectors in Portugal. In this context, the emergence of institutions oriented to innovation and markets development, through mechanisms of co-responsibility between partners, sharing of risks and costs, and ownership of objectives and benefits, is particularly relevant. In this framework, this dissertation attempts to provide new evidence on regimes of collaborative innovation, making use of the experience of Collaborative Laboratories implemented in Portugal in the period 2018-2022. Adopting a conceptual model in which three different regimes evolve – Disruptive, Technology Push and Market Pull, analysis shows that the collaborative innovation process depends upon a complex and diversified set of input-output variables, including relative stakeholder relationships, autonomy and the level of capacities required to develop sophisticated products and services to global markets and stimulate the creation of qualified employment and externalities related with the quality of jobs.