Sandro Mendonça
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706087 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandro Mendonça |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendonça |
| SIGNATURE | MENDONÇA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7276-9626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Taking Back Telecom Control? Governance Failure, Political Leadership and Institutional Change in UK Broadband Policy
Between 2010 and 2023, the United Kingdom's broadband state‐aid regime evolved from a decentralised delivery model led by local authorities to a centralised framework under Building Digital UK (BDUK) and Project Gigabit. Using historical institutionalism, multi‐level governance, and Bayesian process tracing, this article analyses the political and institutional drivers of this shift. It tests three hypotheses: governance performance failure, poli…
Strategic industrial policy in the European Union: The uneven geography of Important Projects of Common European Interest (Ipceis) participation
The “Network Society” moves in mysterious ways: 25 Years in the Reception of a Core Concept
The “Network Society” is an analytical concept developed by Manuel Castells to describe a new form of societal organization underpinned by microelectronics and based on information flows. Since it was introduced in the 1990s, this key contribution to social theory has framed much of academic research and policy-relevant worldviews when it comes to understanding contemporary digital ways. By quantitatively exploring the impact of his contributions…
Institutional Legacies and Governance Models: A Comparative Study of Broadband State Aid in Europe
This article explores how historical legacies and institutional configurations impact the governance models used in implementing State aid policies for broadband in France, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysis is based on historical institutionalism, focusing on path dependence, critical junctures, and gradual institutional change. A comparative historical approach shows different governance models evolving due to administrative …
The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadership by the dominant US digital platforms
Investing in research is an essential element in any business model in the digital age. At the forefront of this approach to innovation are digital platforms, which have resources and development strategies that enable them to enter and transform many markets outside their core activities. This work assembles a wealth of evidence to show that the omnipresence of Big Tech has now reached the science & technology sector in a significant way. We ana…
State aid for broadband network deployment: National and subnational governance mechanisms, 2003–2023
This paper examines the governance models of State aid measures for broadband network deployment in European Union Member States. The research is based on 199 decision letters collected from the European Commission's competition cases database, published between 2003 and 2023. Deploying a theory-driven content analysis approach, the analysis reveals and categorises a variety of governance models. These models vary regarding the authority responsi…
Keeping a close watch on Innovation Studies: Opening the black box of journal editorships
Editors are journals’ entrepreneurs, managers, and stewards. They have the duty of holding high standards of scholarly quality in terms of end product (articles) and due process (adequate peer-review procedures). Given the importance of journals in the contemporary science “ecosystem,” editors emerge as decisive power brokers. Elite board members are scrutinizers but, paradoxically, they are themselves seldom subject to systematic study. This pap…
Places as brands: Charting the value of place-based intangibles
What happens when actors and sectors incorporate references to specific territories in their development efforts? Throughout history, producers have capitalised individually and collectively on place associations through mechanisms such as product marketing and cultural framing in order to protect investments and promote internationalisation efforts. This contribution explores the agenda-setting power of the concept of ‘place-based intangibles’: …
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production
The small world of innovation studies: An “editormetrics” perspective
Do papers (really) match journals’ “aims and scope”? A computational assessment of innovation studies
Regions and trademarks: Research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies
At the intersection of regional and innovation studies, trademark research is producing stylized facts, methodological lessons and policy insights underlining the importance of softer intangible assets for regional resilience and growth. Despite all the recent attention, there are still several opportunities that the present agenda-framing piece tries to canvas, identifying at least two directions for further research: the geography of innovation…
Public policy for open innovation: Opening up to a new domain for research and practice
Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innovation Road to the Circular Economy
On the discontinuity of the future by other means: Reviewing the foresight world of Richard Slaughter
The strategic strength of weak signal analysis
Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change
Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
Regions and trademarks: Research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies
At the intersection of regional and innovation studies, trademark research is producing stylized facts, methodological lessons and policy insights underlining the importance of softer intangible assets for regional resilience and growth. Despite all the recent attention, there are still several opportunities that the present agenda-framing piece tries to canvas, identifying at least two directions for further research: the geography of innovation…
The strategic strength of weak signal analysis
Places as brands: Charting the value of place-based intangibles
What happens when actors and sectors incorporate references to specific territories in their development efforts? Throughout history, producers have capitalised individually and collectively on place associations through mechanisms such as product marketing and cultural framing in order to protect investments and promote internationalisation efforts. This contribution explores the agenda-setting power of the concept of ‘place-based intangibles’: …
Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change
Wild cards, weak signals and organisational improvisation
The strategic strength of weak signal analysis
On the discontinuity of the future by other means: Reviewing the foresight world of Richard Slaughter
Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innovation Road to the Circular Economy
Public policy for open innovation: Opening up to a new domain for research and practice
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production
The small world of innovation studies: An “editormetrics” perspective
Do papers (really) match journals’ “aims and scope”? A computational assessment of innovation studies
Regions and trademarks: Research opportunities and policy insights from leveraging trademarks in regional innovation studies
At the intersection of regional and innovation studies, trademark research is producing stylized facts, methodological lessons and policy insights underlining the importance of softer intangible assets for regional resilience and growth. Despite all the recent attention, there are still several opportunities that the present agenda-framing piece tries to canvas, identifying at least two directions for further research: the geography of innovation…
State aid for broadband network deployment: National and subnational governance mechanisms, 2003–2023
This paper examines the governance models of State aid measures for broadband network deployment in European Union Member States. The research is based on 199 decision letters collected from the European Commission's competition cases database, published between 2003 and 2023. Deploying a theory-driven content analysis approach, the analysis reveals and categorises a variety of governance models. These models vary regarding the authority responsi…
Keeping a close watch on Innovation Studies: Opening the black box of journal editorships
Editors are journals’ entrepreneurs, managers, and stewards. They have the duty of holding high standards of scholarly quality in terms of end product (articles) and due process (adequate peer-review procedures). Given the importance of journals in the contemporary science “ecosystem,” editors emerge as decisive power brokers. Elite board members are scrutinizers but, paradoxically, they are themselves seldom subject to systematic study. This pap…
Places as brands: Charting the value of place-based intangibles
What happens when actors and sectors incorporate references to specific territories in their development efforts? Throughout history, producers have capitalised individually and collectively on place associations through mechanisms such as product marketing and cultural framing in order to protect investments and promote internationalisation efforts. This contribution explores the agenda-setting power of the concept of ‘place-based intangibles’: …
The “Network Society” moves in mysterious ways: 25 Years in the Reception of a Core Concept
The “Network Society” is an analytical concept developed by Manuel Castells to describe a new form of societal organization underpinned by microelectronics and based on information flows. Since it was introduced in the 1990s, this key contribution to social theory has framed much of academic research and policy-relevant worldviews when it comes to understanding contemporary digital ways. By quantitatively exploring the impact of his contributions…
Institutional Legacies and Governance Models: A Comparative Study of Broadband State Aid in Europe
This article explores how historical legacies and institutional configurations impact the governance models used in implementing State aid policies for broadband in France, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The analysis is based on historical institutionalism, focusing on path dependence, critical junctures, and gradual institutional change. A comparative historical approach shows different governance models evolving due to administrative …
The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadership by the dominant US digital platforms
Investing in research is an essential element in any business model in the digital age. At the forefront of this approach to innovation are digital platforms, which have resources and development strategies that enable them to enter and transform many markets outside their core activities. This work assembles a wealth of evidence to show that the omnipresence of Big Tech has now reached the science & technology sector in a significant way. We ana…
Taking Back Telecom Control? Governance Failure, Political Leadership and Institutional Change in UK Broadband Policy
Between 2010 and 2023, the United Kingdom's broadband state‐aid regime evolved from a decentralised delivery model led by local authorities to a centralised framework under Building Digital UK (BDUK) and Project Gigabit. Using historical institutionalism, multi‐level governance, and Bayesian process tracing, this article analyses the political and institutional drivers of this shift. It tests three hypotheses: governance performance failure, poli…
Strategic industrial policy in the European Union: The uneven geography of Important Projects of Common European Interest (Ipceis) participation
Computer Science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Data science (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (4 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (4 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (4 works)