From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy: emerging limits and possible future trajectories

Capello, Roberta; Kroll, Henning

doi:10.1080/09654313.2016.1156058

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“…In addition, other scholars have underlined how, in many European PAs, where the competitive advantage is far from being linked to the presence of knowledge‐based functions, a strategy intended to seek out a technological domain aimed at an industrially specialized diversification, does not appear to be very useful. Rather, especially in these contexts, a strategy of innovation should embrace a wider concept of territorial development, one which comprises the exploitation of untapped and intangible assets, like landscape, cultural heritage and local food, which can play a relevant role in their re‐launch (Capello & Kroll, ).…”

Section: Conceptual Framework: Smart Specialization Tourism Innovatimentioning

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The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Bella

Petino

Scrofani

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This article offers an initial exploratory analysis of some promising agents and innovative practices for a long-term strategy of sustainable, inclusive and smart territorial development for peripheral areas in the Etna macro-region. It aims to scrutinize the potential role of tourism and local entrepreneurship with a view to implementing a territorial approach to a smart specialization strategy. Mostly based on statistical analysis and a critical review of literature, the paper gives an overview on strengths and weaknesses of some existing rural cluster initiatives of innovation, which are of interest to implementing a tourism-centred smart specialization that aims to combine tourism diversification and sustainable development. Both the promising and problematic side of the concept of smart specialization are discussed and some policy implications for realizing tourism innovation in accordance with the need to draw up an alternative policy agenda for the development of peripheral areas are suggested.

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Section: Conceptual Framework: Smart Specialization Tourism Innovatimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

Bella

Petino

Scrofani

2019

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…Foray (2014) argues that smart specialisation is essentially a spontaneous process and that the role of smart specialisation policy is to identify the market and coordination failures that are likely to impede that spontaneity. Capello and Kroll (2016) noted that there are six elements that must be present for smart specialisation to take place: (i) entrepreneurial spirit, (ii) industrial diversity, (iii) high quality local governance, (iv) a critical mass of capabilities to develop collective learning processes, (v) adequate market potential, and (vi) industry connectedness.…”

Section: Related Variety and Smart Specialisationmentioning

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The Importance of Regional Export Development and a Specialised Local Supply Chain on the Development of Australia's Regions

Murphy

Hicks

Morrison

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J of App Econs and Policy

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The nature of the relationship between industry specialisation and employment growth is uncertain. We use regression analysis to examine the effect of changes in forward and backward industry linkages, and of changes in the spread of each of these linkages, on regional competitive employment effects. The study utilises census data from 2006 and 2011 of 46 Australian nonurban regions and the results suggest that regional industry specialisation in firms that export from the region, or in firms that supply to local firms exporting from the region, will have a positive impact on the region's employment. This finding is supportive of smart specialisation policies which are in keeping with a market approach to regional development.

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“…The latter, however, is easier said than done and represents a very contentious issue. Critique has so far focused primarily on the perceived overreliance on "industrial renewal" within existing regional innovation capabilities, which may be preventing the S3 policy to have real transformative effects (Capello & Kroll, 2016). The main two challenges here are, on one hand, how smart specialization opportunities can be identified, and on the other hand, what (policy) intervention in the sector is appropriate (Foray & Goenaga, 2013).…”

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The Ten Million Euro Question: How Do Innovation Intermediaries Support Smart Specialization?

Vidmar

2019

CES

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Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) has become a dominant regional economic development field with significant policy traction, in particular within the European Union. However, questions are being raised about its operationalization and a gap has been identified with respect to the role of innovation intermediaries' interventions in support of the developing regional-sectoral innovation systems. In particular, reasons for diverging policy approaches of "niche specialization" versus "regional advantage" in comparable situations should be examined to illuminate the contextual factors impacting the interpretation of the intermediaries' mandates. In this paper, the cases of two leading investments in innovation intermediation in the emerging New Space sector are analyzed (Space-SI and Higgs Centre for Innovation) in two EU NUTS level 1 regions (Slovenia and Scotland), which were previously peripheral players in this technological domain. In particular, using a novel innovation intermediation interventions' classification, this paper identifies the difference between research and development (R&D) and business development (BD) support foci in the two locales, noting some of the contextual factors associated with them and arguing for the long-term balancing of the two approaches.

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From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy: emerging limits and possible future trajectories

Cited by 209 publications

References 30 publications

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

The Etna macro‐region between peripheralization and innovation: Towards a smart territorial system based on tourism

The Importance of Regional Export Development and a Specialised Local Supply Chain on the Development of Australia's Regions

The Ten Million Euro Question: How Do Innovation Intermediaries Support Smart Specialization?

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