Alfamicro (Portugal)

D. Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, was killed in Alfarrobeira when he was heading to the kingdom’s capital with his army and his son D. Jaime in order to capture the city. He was severely punished along with his sons and supporters with the punishment of damnatio memoriae and the confiscation of the right to property. Among the siblings who strove the most for the rehabilitation of the defeated are, not D. Henrique, but rather D. Isabel, fraternal sister of the former regent and friendly aunt of her nephews, who, although living in Burgundy, was always close to the Avis family. She immediately took the initiative, through her experienced ambassador, Jean Jouffroy, to reverse the situation of punishment that had befallen her family. As the court resisted the ambassador’s appeals and the legal justifications, having made few concessions to his pleas, she welcomed her brother’s children to Burgundy and projected them to international careers — stabat amǐta (paternal aunt)

A experiência da implementação de Living Labs em Portugal começou na década de 90 e, desde então até aos dias de hoje, tem-se revelado de uma importância crucial para o desenvolvimento económico e social do País. Esta reflecção pretende fazer um retrato do estado actual da Inovação em Portugal, focando os seus pontos fortes e fracos e a necessidade de novas abordagens, com vista a uma inovação mais aberta e próxima dos cidadãos. O sucesso da promoção e implementação desta mesma Inovação passa pela identificação dos seus agentes e pela forma como estes devem actuar em todo o processo. Através da análise de Living Labs Portugueses que se tornaram exemplos paradigmáticos de Inovação económica e social, é possível extrair recomendações para que a prática dos Living Labs se afigure como um caminho para a construção de uma sociedade mais aberta, participativa, confiante, saudável e, sobretudo, feliz.

PRIME addresses the need of lower management professionals to develop strategic manufacturing competence experience within a reduced time frame and minimizing the impact on existing business whilst integrated into the work environment. In essence, it is about taking a 30 year old professional and transforming her or him into a 50 year old without the drudgery of twenty years of business mishaps and successes. The PRIME project will achieve its aim objectives by enhancing current work environments with a new paradigm based on serious gaming. This will provide the means for learning by experience within a virtual environment that is safe and foments risk taking without detrimental impact on the business. The experience gathered is based on strategic management, including multi-stakeholder negotiation and business connectivity.

This paper describes the methodology, tools, action plans and results used in Madeira Island, a peripheral region in the Atlantic, in order to define, create and implement successful knowledge and innovation culture society strategies to drive a sustainable economic development policy. Lessons will be extracted from hands on experience on how to build effective Innovation culture and information society strategies in a peripheral region and how to ensure its implementation and sustainability. These regional projects aim at improving government, business and citizens practices, processes and social behaviour, through an adequate use of selected actions translated in projects with the involvement of all the stakeholders. Madeira which are driving major changes in the work environment and the business processes themselves. We argue in this paper that the current dynamic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and organisational testing environment in Madeira can provide the ideal conditions for an European Living Lab targeted to new collaborative and mobile work processes, services and business models as being currently pursued by Madeira Tecnopolo.