Monitoring S3: Key dimensions and implications

Masana, Ricard Esparza; Fernández, Tatiana Delgado

doi:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101720

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“…Kogut-Jaworska & Ociepa-Kicinska, 2020; Adeleke Abayomi et al, 2020). Masana & Fernández (2019) introduce the term "learning" to the monitoring process and the European Commission indicates examples as best practices for regional monitoring (European Commission, 2020). However, all screened literature proposals lack performance measuring comparability with (all) other European regions in terms of RIS3.…”

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Reinforcing comparative monitoring of Smart Specialisation performance across European regions: transnational RIS3 observatory model as a tool for Smart Specialisation governance

Meyer¹

2020

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Smart Specialisation is dedicated to be a key driving force for entrepreneurial discovery and innovation in the European innovation policy paradigm in line with the European Strategy 2020 and the funding period 2014-2020. At the current stage, all EU NUTS-2 regions are monitoring their individually developed Regional Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialisation (RIS3) including monitoring systems that are needed to adjust upcoming future RIS3 strategies in the new funding periods. Despite the thematic topicality, the procedure of RIS3 evaluation and monitoring lacks a sound supra-regional approach when it comes to RIS3 implementation performance governance and institutional arrangements across all European regions. In fact, the blurring of RIS3 monitoring can be traced back to the policy nature that monitoring systems are set up, implemented and evaluated on individual regional and or national basis including a set of regionally tailored regional and national indicators. With regard to the policy challenges and research gaps of developing, and, later, using a joint macro-regional systemic institutional approach towards RIS3 implementation and monitoring, this paper provides a conceptual model for RIS3 performance, evaluation and monitoring governance based on case study analysis, best practices from RIS3 research and policy stakeholders' interviews. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive and comparative governance model on regional, national and * This research was supported by the EU project "SMART_watch", part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the INTERREG Central Europe Programme 2014 -2020. The project is dedicated to foster the cooperation between the Regional Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialisation (RIS3) monitoring and the actual needs of the implementing regional stakeholders.

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Reinforcing comparative monitoring of Smart Specialisation performance across European regions: transnational RIS3 observatory model as a tool for Smart Specialisation governance

Meyer¹

2020

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“…смартспеціалізації в регіонах ЄС проведено в [4,5]. У [6] проведено дослідження процесу стратегування економічного розвитку регіонів України до 2027 р. на засадах смартспеціалізації, виявлено допущені методичні помилки в процесі розробки стратегій смартспеціалізації регіонів України.…”

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT INNOVATION IN SMEs IN EUROPEAN UNION REGIONS’ SMART SPECIALIZATION

Dub¹

2021

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The intentions of the Ukrainian authorities to increase the competitiveness of regional economies based on smart specialization caused the study of the characteristics of financing projects of smart specialization of regions of the European Union. The introduction of innovations in the activities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to increase their competitiveness is one of the key areas of financial support for smart specialization. The aim of the study is to identify the effectiveness of financial support for smart specialization projects in the EU regions in terms of funding research, development and innovation aimed at improving the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses. In the course of the study, we analyzed the databases of the European Structural and Investment Funds on the amount of funding for research, development and innovation aimed at increasing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized busi nesses, by areas of funding and EU countries. We also compared the level of use of funds and the level of achievement of the goals planned in the projects. EU countries and regions used the funds planned by the European Structural and Investment Funds to finance the implementation of innovations in SMEs only by a third due to weak interaction of SMEs with research centers, as well as due to insufficient projects to improve the efficiency of SMEs through implementation results of research, development and innovation. The main emphasis in supporting small and medium-sized businesses through the implementation of research advances has been placed in the smart specialization strategies of the Netherlands, Slovakia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Germany. However, the largest amount of funding for research, development and innovation in SMEs in 2014-2020 among EU member states was planned, in addition to Poland and Germany, for Italy and Spain. The analysis showed that by 2020 the level of implementation of only certain goals of smart specialization reached 50 % or more of the planned indicators. However, in the context of the EU countries, there was no homogeneity in achieving all the goals related to the development and functioning of small and medium-sized businesses through the implementation of research, development and innovation. The efficiency of using the financial resources of the European Structural and Investment Funds for the implementation of smart specialization strategies in the EU regions was not high. It is likely that by 2023 when the projects launched in 2014-2020 will be completed, the level of achievement by the EU regions of smart specialization goals in terms of implementing research, development and innovation in SMEs will increase. Nevertheless, in our opinion, it will not be possible to achieve their full implementation.

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Transnational RIS3 Observatory Model for Smart Specialisation Monitoring on Regional, National and European Level

Meyer

2021

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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Monitoring S3: Key dimensions and implications

Cited by 8 publications

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Reinforcing comparative monitoring of Smart Specialisation performance across European regions: transnational RIS3 observatory model as a tool for Smart Specialisation governance

Reinforcing comparative monitoring of Smart Specialisation performance across European regions: transnational RIS3 observatory model as a tool for Smart Specialisation governance

FINANCIAL SUPPORT INNOVATION IN SMEs IN EUROPEAN UNION REGIONS’ SMART SPECIALIZATION

Transnational RIS3 Observatory Model for Smart Specialisation Monitoring on Regional, National and European Level

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