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It is common knowledge that history repeats itself! Maybe not literally, but patterns of behaviour likely dependent of the human nature, are probably prone to repeat themselves. So, one may wonder if looking back could help us prepare for a better future. Moreover, by looking back at the history of people and societies, we should all be able to have a better understanding of why things happen the way they do. This seldom happens, and when it does, it is happening within very limited circle of the society such as scholars and some politician circles, rarely overflowing to the whole society.The point is that, what we see today is not very different from what has happened in the past. Let us go back to November 13, 1460, the day Prince Henry the Navigator, passed away in Sagres, leaving Portugal with an enormous debt. Despite that fact, Prince Henry was the “guiding force behind Portugal’s assimilation of nautical knowledge and its vast extension of maritime exploration for nearly four decades” (Kock, 2003, p.59). It is interesting that by that time intellectual property was already being managed. (...)

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Carsharing is a model of renting vehicles for short periods of time, where the payment is made according to the time and distance effectively traveled. Carsharing offers a simple, economical and smart alternative to urban mobility, that is already being adopted in the major cities in the world. The proposed methodology consisted in the development of a decision support system that simplifies the process of choosing carsharing services. Adopting the AHP method, the user can indicate their preferences in the choice of vehicles, and the system returns an ordered list of the most suitable available vehicles based on their geographic location. The findings of the project indicate that the use of this system encourage and simplify the use of carsharing services, which will allow to enhance the financial, mobility and environment advantages inherent to their use.

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Innovation is seen as a key element of an organization’s competitiveness. Along with the current imperative for innovation comes the need to adequately measure it. The purpose of this paper is to perform a literature review in the field of innovation performance models and metrics. The performed work aims to make an important contribution by facilitating the identification and categorization of innovation performance models and metrics formulated until the present time. A survey methodology was adopted to identify the most predominant contributions in the field. For that, the top three most popular bibliometric indexes (Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar) were used. Then, the top ten most relevant studies on innovation performance models and metrics were compared to determine similarities and differences between each generation of models and metrics. Finally, the main innovation performance models and metrics were identified, classified and compared.

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