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Governing Smart Specialisation
In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic potential, developing mechanisms to involve the fullest range of stakeholders, before setting strategic priorities and using the policy to maximize the knowledge-based potential of a region or territory. Governing Smart Specialisation contributes to the emerging debate about the role of the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ (EDP), which is at the heart of smart specialisation strategies for regional economic transformation. Particular foc...
Assessing Smart Specialisation
Research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation have been an integral part of the European Cohesion policy since 2013. Marking the seventh year of implementation of the smart specialisation policy, the Smart Specialisation Platform of the European Commission launched an extensive research project in 2020 with the aim to provide evidence on how and with what results the smart specialisation policy concept has been implemented on the ground. The research project focused on four main elements of the policy process: governance, Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP), implementation measures, and monitoring and evaluation. Various sources of (primary and secondary) data and analytica...
Case Studies Towards Green Transition in EU Regions
This report analyses five case study reports in-depth across five EU countries as part of a broader analytical and critical exercise. This analytical work seeks to contribute to the development of new models for regional and local authorities aiming to boost support for Green Transition of their economies through smarter innovation policies, using the smart specialisation (S3) approach. The work covered five regions from across the European Union representing a diversity of approaches to using S3 for Green Transition: the Basque Country in Spain, the Centro region in Portugal, the region of East and North Finland, the region of Western Macedonia in Greece and the region of West Netherlands. The case studies included in this report consists of three sections on (i) Profile of the region and key development challenges; (ii) Innovation strategies and policies for green transition: incorporating societal challenges; (iii) Understanding and monitoring innovation led green transition. Drawing together the different elements presented, the conclusion provides a summary overview of the case and the authors' opinion on it.
COVID-19 and the Smart Specialisation Strategy
This report aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the implementation of smart specialisation strategies in the last part of the 2014-2020 period. The report focuses on organisational policy capacities and governance processes required to deal with the consequences of COVID-19. A survey was launched in 2020 to collect information about how the health crisis had affected implementation of smart specialisation strategies and how the entities in charge had managed the situation. The main results show the contrast between the adequacy of smart specialisation strategies portfolio contents and administrative challenges in managing and implementing the strategies in times of cris...
The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation
Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies, skills profiles, business activities, institutions and sectors which reflect a region’s economic strengths and potential are to be fostered and encouraged to diversify in ways which also exploit the region’s linkages with broader global value-chains. Yet, the ideas contained in the smart specialisation agenda have until now been primarily conceptual in nature. The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation draws toget...
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014 reviews key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, including OECD countries and major emerging economies.
The Unequal City
In recent years there has been intense scholarly and public interest in the changing nature of cities. Cities around the world have seen an increase in population and capital investments in land and building, a shift in central city populations as the poor are forced out, and a radical restructuring of urban space. The Unequal City tells the story of urban change and acts as a comprehensive guide to the Urban Now. A number of trends are examined including: the role of liquid capital; the resurgence of population; the construction of megaprojects and hosting of global megaevents; the role of the new rich; and the emergence of a new middle class.
Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Andalusia, Spain 2010
This review of higher education in regional development examines how the Andalusia region of Spain can fuel local growth and create jobs and businesses.
Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Catalonia, Spain 2011
Catalonia is the main contributor to Spain’s economy, but it is now feeling the effects of the economic crisis. This book examines how it can prepare for the post-crisis economy with the help of the university system.
Urban Transformations
Economic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbourhoods that were previously underpinned by industry and manufacturing. This has presented policy makers and city planners with a binary choice: to resist change and stagnate or to change and attempt to keep up with the pace of global demand. This edited book tells the story of how urban transformation impacts on people’s lives and everyday interactions – to question where and to whom benefit accrues from these changes. Urban Transformations offers insight into both risk and reward as local communities and public authorities creatively...
