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Sala 12.2.21 DCSPTData de início:
Seminário de Investigação GOVCOPP | Junho
O próximo Seminário de Investigação GOVCOPP de 2025 terá lugar no dia 25 de Junho. Junte-se a nós entre as 13h e as 15h.
Indústria, Inovação, Tecnologia e Infra-estruturas
25 Junho 2025
Sala 12.2.21 (GOVCOPP HUB - DCSPT)
13h - 15h
Grupo de investigação TD
“The Impact of Blockchain Technology Adoption in the Tourism Industry: A Systemic Literature Review”
Resumo
Disruptive technologies are playing a significant role in the tourism industry, particularly in promoting new business models, and blockchain technology is one of them, integrating Industry 4.0. Implementing this technology is seen as a solution for disintermediation, traceability, and transparency, and has been changing industries worldwide, but it also presents challenges that must be considered. For this study, a systematic literature review was used to analyse 43 publications selected in the Scopus database. The study identifies the main themes in the literature, namely disintermediation; advantages and disadvantages of use in the tourism industry; lack of awareness among companies; lack of blockchain experts; and legislation to increase confidence in the adoption of this technology, as well as specific strategies. It also suggests an agenda for the tourism industry to implement this technology.
Grupo de investigação SDS
“Hybrid Simulation for Analysis and Improvement of Medical Waste Supply Chain”
Resumo
The transition to Industry 4.0 has driven the adoption of digitalisation and intelligent automation, as well as the integration of cyber-physical systems. The focus is onefficiency, connectivity and data-based decision-making. In this context, hybrid simulation has emerged as a strategic tool, combining different paradigms — namely, agent-based simulation, discrete event simulation, and system dynamics — to allow complex systems to be represented more realistically, adaptably, and integrally. The hospital waste supply chain involves numerous stakeholders and processes that extend from the collection phase at healthcare facilities to the final treatment phase. Hybrid simulation enables these dynamics to be captured more accurately, encompassing both physical flows and the autonomous behaviour and temporal evolution of systems. This hybrid approach is demonstrated by the practical case developed in a company specialising in hospital waste management. Discrete Event Simulation is used to model the internal flow of containers at the treatment centre.
Agent-based simulation represents the autonomous behaviour of trucks travelling along defined routes to collect waste from different healthcare institutions. System dynamics enables factors that vary over time to be incorporated, such as waste generation associated with seasonality, the state of the economy or events such as pandemics. This integrated approach enables thorough evaluation of environmental, economic, and social factors, including energy consumption, carbon footprint, operating times, and logistical costs. These factors contribute to the analysis of the system's sustainability. The model was developed using AnyLogic software, leveraging its hybrid simulation capabilities. This demonstrates the potential of the approach to support decision-making in complex industrial and environmental contexts.
Grupo de investigação PI2
How have public policies in the area of entrepreneurship in Portugal promoted the triple helix model? PUBLIC POLICIES IN THE
Resumo
Entrepreneurship in Portugal has been gaining a more relevant role in the country through the triple helix model, linking the innovation produced by universities to industrial and legislative developments over the last decade. Higher education institutions have had a growing capacity to participate in the country's economic developments, with a commitment to commercialising their research, considered a positive point in the country's innovation indices. To consolidate this theme, we used a methodology based on a literature review, with the aim of analysing the policies that have led to this growth, reporting on the existing changes, as well as the ways in which these policies are implemented and evaluated.
This work aims to promote the mapping and communication of entrepreneurial policies in Portugal. As such, we considered the guiding question: ‘In what way have public policies in the area of entrepreneurship in Portugal promoted the triple helix model?’, analysing their underlying structure, filling the gap in the literature, learning about the survey and the recipients of these policies.
Grupo de investigação CIS
“Measuring the importance of innovation in Portuguese economic development”
Resumo
Under the assumption that innovation and the processes of technological change are crucial to economic development, this research sought to measure the relative importance of innovation for economic development in Portugal. To this end, data were collected from official statistics produced by the government of Portugal and the European Union, primarily from the Pordata, Eurostat, and Directorate-General for Statistics of Education and Science databases. The statistical technique used in the present investigation was random forest, best exemplified as a supervised machine learning algorithm. The results suggest that R&D expenditure and its outcomes — patent and design/model applications and grants — contribute to Portuguese economic development, mainly through an upward gradient relationship. In addition, our research provides evidence that product and process innovations are marginally positioned in the hierarchy of importance for Portuguese economic development when analyzed in conjunction with other innovation inputs and outputs. These results prove that the Portuguese National Innovation System has been configured disjointed manner, especially concerning the development of structured stimuli that foster the emergence of innovations with real impacts on Portuguese economic development. This study contributes to the literature by highlighting the need for more synergy within Portugal’s National Innovation System. Future research should explore the mechanisms through which product and process innovations can significantly impact economic development.
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