Outsmarting geography: implementing territorial innovation strategies in sparsely populated regions

The Role of Intelligent Organisations in Creating Favourable Conditions for the Development of Entrepreneurship

“…New forms of proximity relationships based on institutional, cognitive and organisational proximity, and not just on geographical grouping, come to the forefront. Regions of this type also take action to involve regional knowledge actors (including universities) in transnational knowledge networks, as well as to create common knowledge bases, both near and far away (Dubois, 2017).…”

The status, characteristics and potential of smart specialisation in Nordic Regions

“…The launch of the Barca Report in 2009 marked a 'spatial turn' of innovation strategies (Teräs et al, 2015), bringing to the fore the notion of placebased development as 'the new paradigm for the operationalisation of EU policies at the regional level' (Dubois, Kristensen and Teräs 2017). Table 1 below presents some of the key features that distinguish smart specialisation from a cluster-based approach (author's elaboration, based on Foray, David andHall, 2009, 2011;McCann and Ortega-Argilés, 2011;Ketels et al, 2013;Bellini, 2015):…”

State of the Nordic Region 2018

“…From a regional development perspective, considerable work is needed to align the available education and training with the constantly evolving needs of regional economies. We see this occurring to some degree through regionally based smart specialisation strategies that seek to align knowledge dynamics and the specific socio-economic, institutional and geographical conditions of regions (Dubois et al, 2017), industry-led initiatives (Miörner & Trippl, 2017), and targeted platforms for assessing the skills needs of regions (Reglab, 2014). Work is also underway to improve validation processes, with a view to easing the integration of new migrants into Nordic labour markets .…”