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Smart Specialisation Strategy required regional authorities to identify technological domains where to concentrate investment in R&D and innovation. Their choices should originate from an analysis of regional strengths, aiming to identify those domains with the greatest potential for innovation and diversification. This paper aim to assess the degree of relatedness between chosen technological domains. We use patent data to categorize technological domains and the revealed associations methodology to measure their degree of relatedness. We find that the choices made by Italian regions show a significant higher relatedness as compared to a random choice, though with notable exceptions. KEYWORDS regional development, regional innovation policy, smart specialisation strategy, technological relatedness JEL CLASSIFICATIONO38; R11; R58 | INTRODUCTIONThe EU Cohesion Policy is one of the western world's largest, if not the largest, regional development policy operating under broadly one overall legal and institutional framework. Following the so-called Lisbon strategy, the main aim of the 2014-2020 program is to foster the innovative performance of EU regions and promoting a better link ---

Abstract:The implementation of the European Cohesion Policy aiming at fostering regions competitiveness, economic growth and creation of new jobs is documented over the period 2014-2020 in the publicly available Open Data Portal for the European Structural and Investment funds. On the base of this source, this paper aims at describing the process of data mining and visualization for information production on regional programmes performace in achieving effective expenditure of resouces.