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Rui Baptista
 Adjunct Faculty Member, International Ph.D., Business Administration: London Business School, University of London. Phone: +351 218 417 379 Fax: + 351 218 496 156 View personal webpage View list of all SDS faculty |
Research Interests Rui Baptista is an international adjunct faculty member with SDS; he is also an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technological Change at the Department of Engineering Management at the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal), and Senior Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute of Economics (Jena, Germany). He is also Coordinator of the Laboratory of Technology Policy and Management of Technology, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+. Baptista's research and teaching focus mainly on the subjects of entrepreneurship, technological innovation, industry and labor dynamics, and their relationship with economic growth and regional development. Selected publications Baptista, R., Karaöz, M. and J. Mendonça. (2009). "Entrepreneurial Backgrounds, Human Capital and the Short Term Survival of New Start-ups." Forthcoming. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Baptista, R. and J. Mendonça. (2009). "Proximity to Knowledge Sources and the Location of Knowledge Based Start-ups." Annals of Regional Science, DOI 10.1007/s00168-009-0289-4. Baptista, R., Escária, V. and P. Madruga. (2008). "Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: the Case of Portugal." Small Business Economics, 30(1), 49-58. Baptista, R. (2000). "Do Innovations Diffuse Faster within Geographical Clusters?" International Journal of Industrial Organization, 18(3), 515-535. Baptista, R. and G.M.P. Swann. (1998). "Do Firms in Clusters Innovate More?" Research Policy, 27(6), 525-540. |