Governance of the territorial entrepreneurial discovery process: looking under the bonnet of RIS3

Abstract

Comparing knowledge bases: on the geography and organization of knowledge sourcing in the regional innovation system of Scania, Sweden.

Shaping smart specialization: the role of place-specific factors in advanced, intermediate and less-developed European regions

“…However, the change (and the benefit) brought by S3 might be bigger in this group than in the one with well-developed processes for policy-making (Kroll, 2017). Finally, smart specialization calls for and benefits from well-established multilevel governance set-ups and horizontal policy coordination (Aranguren et al, 2018;Kroll, 2017). Regions with functioning mechanisms for policy alignment will thus be in an advantageous situation, whilst those where such mechanisms are largely absent can be expected to face severe 'coordination challenges'.…”

“…Whilst the degree of decentralization shapes the room of manoeuvre for regional innovation policy-making, much depends on the institutional structures and quality of government found in the region (Kroll, 2017;Rodríguez-Pose & Di Cataldo, 2015) and the capacity and knowledge of actors in the policy and administrative system to design and implement modern regional innovation strategies such as S3 (Kroll, 2015;Sotarauta, 2018). Past policy practices and policy path dependency may be powerful barriers to the adoption of new innovation policy approaches (Aranguren, Magro, Navarro, & Wilson, 2018;Morgan, 2017). These may relate to the type of innovation policies pursued (e.g., science-technology-innovation (STI) versus doing-using-interacting (DUI) policies, firmversus system-level policies) and the forms taken (e.g., evidencebased, priority setting, stakeholder involvement, monitoring, evaluation, etc.).…”

Optimizing entrepreneurial development processes for smart specialization in the European Union

“…The early‐stage experience of the S3 implementation across many EU regions suggests that the benefits of S3 tend to be multi‐dimensional rather than purely technological and research, also involving institutional and governance dimensions. There is now a growing body of analysis and evidence which helps to identify both the benefits and also the challenges to be faced in adopting and implementing an S3 approach to policy prioritization (Gianelle et al, 2019; Aranguren, Magro, Navarro, & Wilson, 2019; Kroll, 2017; 2019b, Varga, Sebestyén, Szabó, & Szerb, 2020). The more recently‐emerging understanding is much broader and richer than earlier understandings of innovation and entrepreneurship policy, which tended to focus purely on narrow scientific R&D and firm‐creation related aspects, whereas today they are more inclusive as they tend to focus on local and societal aspects, involve public and private sector actors, and engage society via participatory actions (Foray, 2019; Kroll, 2015; McCann & Ortega‐Argilés, 2014, 2016a).…”

“…McCann and Ortega‐Argilés (2016b) show that the approach to S3 priorities and implementation has varied across the EU regions, and it is not necessarily the economically stronger regions in which early signs of S3 responses are the most positive. Region‐specific economic and governance characteristics play a key role in shaping how S3 is implemented in each region (Aranguren et al, 2019; Kroll, 2019a). Trippl, Zukauskaite, and Healy (2019) find that improvements in stakeholder engagement and modern policy‐thinking are most evident in less developed and intermediate regions, whereas in some advanced regions approaches to S3 are incremental and rarely extending beyond existing practices and parties involved in innovation‐related policies.…”

Influence of Local Tax and Zakat Infaq Maslahah Through to Regional Income (Overview of New Trends in Sustainable Development)

“…Another important criterion to determine the real ability to regulate and manage the area in the household is a regional power in the field of finance. In other words, the financial factor is an important factor in regulating the level of regional capabilities in implementing regional autonomy (Aranguren et al, 2019 andMorisson &Doussineau, 2019). Finance area also has a scope that consists of directly managed regional financial and wealth separated areas.…”