Territory and entrepreneurial performance - an exercise on the industrial regions of Ave, Entre Douro e Vouga, Baixo Vouga, Pinhal Litoral and Península de Setúbal

The present paper was motivated by the recent interest put on the regional context as having a major role tracing economic agents behaviours and inducing productive activity. Three main goals have been defined: to emphasise the relation between favourable regional factors for development and firm performance in the case of the most industrialised Portuguese regions; to distinguish in each region its own propensity for sustainable development and to evaluate if the region may be considered as intrinsic co-operative or resistant to co-operation