The Role of the Smart Specialisation Agenda in a Reformed EU Cohesion Policy

McCann, Philip; Argilés, Raquel Ortega

doi:10.3280/scre2014-001002

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“…In marked contrast, the RIS3 approach requires regions to undertake explicit evidence-based assessments of a region's needs and possibilities, to undertake a consultation and stakeholder engagement process in order to help proprieties to be identified and articulated, to ensure that local and regional stakeholders genuinely play a significant role both in designing and delivering the strategies, and also to develop and explicit programme for monitoring and evaluating the progress of the policy (McCann, 2015). The adoption and translation of the smart specialization concept to the regional context allowed the approach to be transformed into a policy tool which could be made workable and practicable in different contexts and in difference institutional and economic environments (McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2013a, 2013b, 2014a, 2014b. However, heterogeneity is a key feature of the EU regional context, with enormously varying economic and institutional realities (McCann, 2015), and the ease with which regions take up and genuinely embody the RIS3 approach within their policy-making agenda appears to depend heavily both on their policy-making history and also their institutional capabilities (Kroll, 2015c).…”

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The early experience of smart specialization implementation in EU cohesion policy

McCann

2016

European Planning Studies

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This paper discusses the early-stage experience of the smart specialization agenda within EU Cohesion Policy. The analysis examines the types of policy prioritization choices made by different member states and regions and seeks evidence on the extent to which weaker regions, in particular, might be constrained in their choices. The paper then reviews the evidence arising out of various surveys of policy-makers' own experience and perceptions of the agenda, and concludes with a discussion of the major features of the policy progress so far and the main challenges ahead. ARTICLE HISTORY

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The early experience of smart specialization implementation in EU cohesion policy

McCann

2016

European Planning Studies

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“…Acknowledging the heterogeneity in the relationship between knowledge and innovation across space has also relevant policy implications with respect to the current debate on smart specialization (Barca, McCann, and Rodriguez‐Pose ; Boschma ; Camagni and Capello ; Foray, David, and Hall ; McCann and Ortega‐Argilés , ). In particular, it enables to elaborate differentiated innovation policies better suited and tailored to stimulate creative efforts in city regions with different knowledge endowments and capabilities, and this is the third main contribution of this research.…”

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The Knowledge–Innovation Nexus. Its Spatially Differentiated Returns to Innovation

Capello¹,

Lenzi²

2015

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Innovative activities have been long considered as a predominant urban phenomenon suggesting that the innovative capacity of a region highly depends on its urbanization level. This paper tests empirically this statement by studying the impact of knowledge on innovation in 262 regions of the European Union, ranked according to their degree of urbanization. Based on an original database encompassing several knowledge and innovation indicators, and a regional typology and ranking of city regions, the paper shows that when the source of innovation is formal knowledge (i.e., R&D), the benefits accruing from innovation are spatially rather selective and concentrated in first-rank city regions. On the contrary, when the source of innovation is qualified human capital, the innovation advantages are more diffused and penetrate also in second-and third-rank city regions. Moreover, innovative activities aimed at introducing new products require a more balanced mix of R&D and human capital inputs whereas innovative activities aimed at introducing new processes tend to be relatively more human capital intensive.

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“…Against this background the semantics of 'specialization' will have to be reconsidered if RIS3 policies are to meet their stated objectives (McCann & Ortega-Argilés 2014;McCann, & Ortega-Argilés, 2015).…”

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Bringing owls to Athens? The transformative potential of RIS3 for innovation policy in Germany's Federal States

Kroll

Böke²,

Schiller³

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European Planning Studies

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This paper reports on the impact of smart specialization policies in an economically already well-developed and politically experienced environment. Arguably, German regions were quite experienced with strategic innovation policy long before the ex-ante conditionality was imposed and their first reaction to it was accordingly reserved. Nonetheless, our case studies illustrate that the process related to the development of regional innovation strategies has in many German regions led to advances in methodology as well as improved communication and coordination in polities where information failures constitute a relevant challenge. Accordingly, a number of key challenges remain, in part related to many German regionsâ understanding of their own mandate within the country's multi-level governance system

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The Role of the Smart Specialisation Agenda in a Reformed EU Cohesion Policy

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

The early experience of smart specialization implementation in EU cohesion policy

The early experience of smart specialization implementation in EU cohesion policy

The Knowledge–Innovation Nexus. Its Spatially Differentiated Returns to Innovation

Bringing owls to Athens? The transformative potential of RIS3 for innovation policy in Germany's Federal States

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