Innovating Territories

Oeiras is since the eighties an innovative municipality both regarding the economy and the territory, this one including all facts related to communities life, like housing, environment and facilities. This result was produced by a strategic revolution for sustainable development, changing the former trends that had determined an indifferent and unqualified local situation.\nInnovation makes the difference and allows us to talk about an Innovative Territorial Ecosystem, including specific conditions and actors with convergent ways for common goals.\nManagement of the risk in the innovation process depends on the permanent and careful reinforcement of this process, involving all the enterprises, their location and functions.\nThe future of this innovation process requires attention on the options taken within all related sectors. In this context, territory planning and management must deal in the future with extremely different and new situations. The urbanistic answer to this challenge will perhaps produce another local geography and therefore another generation of innovative territories.