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Knowledge Creation and Transfer in Tourism Innovation Networks

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In the last decades, the role of knowledge in the world economy has been acknowledged as fundamental as a production factor, and as the main asset for the development of innovation. Bearing this in mind, knowledge creation and transfer are crucial processes, and innovation networks provide the necessary conditions for these processes to occur and to allow tourism destinations to achieve high innovation performance and overall competitiveness. This research applies Social Network Analysis to characterise the networked dynamics of knowledge creation and transfer within tourism destinations’ innovation networks. Considering two Portuguese regions, a survey was applied to institutions responsible for tourism innovation in order to collect relational data. Results demonstrate that knowledge transfer involves a higher number of actors than knowledge creation. It also demonstrates that knowledge producers and education providers have a more significant role in knowledge creation, while public tourism organisations also stand out in knowledge transfer.

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  1. GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, and Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism of the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Filipa Brandão, Carlos Costa, Zélia Breda & Rui Costa

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    António Abreu

  3. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    João Vidal de Carvalho

  4. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Dália Liberato

  5. Business Administration and Tourism, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Elisa Alén González

  6. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, VILA DO CONDE, Portugal

    Pedro Liberato

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Brandão, F., Costa, C., Breda, Z., Costa, R. (2020). Knowledge Creation and Transfer in Tourism Innovation Networks. In: Rocha, Á., Abreu, A., de Carvalho, J., Liberato, D., González, E., Liberato, P. (eds) Advances in Tourism, Technology and Smart Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 171. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2024-2_25

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