Constructing Regional Advantage and Smart Specialisation: Comparison of Two European Policy Concepts

By Ron A. Boschma. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Political Science and International Relations

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Innovation Policy for Grand Challenges. An Economic Geography Perspective (2015, background): “Still, the community has only recently started to engage more intensively with policymakers beyond the regional level through work on the rapidly proliferating EU policy notion of smart specialisation (Boschma 2014; McCann and Ortega-Argilés 2015).”
Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data (2017, background): “Drawing on the manifold notion of proximity in economic geography (Boschma 2005), and on the idea of technological/cognitive proximity in particular, substantial research efforts have been made to find a relatedness measurement suited to this purpose (e.g., Kogler, Rigby, and Tucker 2013;…”
Relatedness, complexity and local growth (2020, background): “Local policies are designed to be contextspecific, in light of the relatedness patterns among local economic activities as well as the local institutional context (Barca et al., 2012; Boschma, 2014).”
Six critical questions about smart specialization (2019, background): “…consist of wishful thinking that entrepreneurial discovery process will lead regions to lock out of negative path dependence, the decision-making and domain-selection activities of local stakeholders are often influenced by rent-seeking behavior and hence lead to negative lock-ins (Boschma, 2014).”
Smart specialization policy in the European Union: relatedness, knowledge complexity and regional diversification (2019, background): “We argue that relatedness and knowledge complexity are key building blocks of smart specialization, which we envisage as a place-based policy in which regions aim at renewing and upgrading their economic structure by building on their existing capabilities (Boschma, 2014).”
Efforts to Implement Smart Specialization in Practice—Leading Unlike Horses to the Water (2015, background): “Apparently, the straightforward benefit of the RIS3 processes in terms of “discovery” was limited indeed, as Boschma (2014a) and Iacobucci (2014) suggested may happen.”
Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland (2015, background): “Following its formation in 1999, the North East’s regional development agency, ONE, developed a new regional economic strategy which appears to connect to many of the core principles of an evolutionary inspired ‘contextual approach’ (Boschma 2013).”
From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy: emerging limits and possible future trajectories (2016, background): “…specialization; in this first evaluation process, those risks emerge as potential bottlenecks if not appropriately taken into consideration in a revised design of smart specialization (Boschma, 2014; Capello, 2014; Kroll, 2015; Kroll, Dornbusch, & Schnabl, 2015; McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2014).”
Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency (2018, background): “…concepts such as smart specialisation highlight the need to develop innovation strategies that foster economic structural change, i.e. policies that support restructuring through diversifying into new but related economic fields or creating entirely new sectors (e.g. Boschma 2014; Foray 2015).”