Smart Specialisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation Policy

By Dominique Foray. 2014

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

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Four dangers in innovation policy studies – and how to avoid them (2016, background): “New approaches to innovation policy that aspire to greater context-sensitivity and experimentation, such as smart specialisation (Morgan 2013; Foray 2014), provide a potential platform for such debates.”
Efforts to Implement Smart Specialization in Practice—Leading Unlike Horses to the Water (2015, background): “As McCann and Ortega-Argilés (2011) and Foray (2014) have vividly described, the months following the delivery of the Knowledge for Growth report witnessed an energetic embracement of the smart specialization concept by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy…”
Regional industrial restructuring resulting from individual and system agency (2018, background): “For a new path to appear the innovation developed by the forerunners have to be employed and possibly adapted by several other firm actors so that a critical mass of firms or organisations using a new technology, producing a new product or service, and so on, emerges (Foray 2015).”
Six critical questions about smart specialization (2019, background): “Foray (2015), for instance, presents several cases with the typical phenomena of smart specialization, namely entrepreneurial discovery and spillovers, agglomeration effects, leading to structural changes, in economically strong regions in Switzerland or France.”
Public procurement, innovation and industrial policy: Rationales, roles, capabilities and implementation (2020, background): “…emphasis on diversification and technological upgrading – for instance the European Commission’s agenda for Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) aims to help regions to diversify and transform their economies based on their own competences and assets (Foray, 2014).”
From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy: emerging limits and possible future trajectories (2016, background): “Fourthly, Foray’s original concept envisages the EDP as something that emerges between relevant actors in particular, emerging domains and – in well-functioning regional innovation systems – can and will in principle occur without public intervention (Coffano & Foray, 2014; Foray, 2014).”
Theorizing the Triple Helix model: Past, present, and future (2020, background): “Although most innovation approaches consider firms or the industry sector as a key element in innovation analysis (Foray 2015), all acknowledge the importance of university, industry and government and their interactions in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Complementary interregional linkages and Smart Specialisation: an empirical study on European regions (2020, background): “Local capabilities have been regarded as a source of regional change in Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) in the European Union (EU) from its very start (Foray, 2015; Radosevic et al., 2018).”
On the policy space of smart specialization strategies (2016, background): “The right rationale to discontinue support is not about success or failure, but rather that the considered activity is no longer new (Foray, 2015; Rodrik, 2004).”
A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value (2018, background): “…economic sectors and specifically regions can build upon their own comparative and competitive advantages to generate new specialisms through the ‘ discovery of new domains of opportunity and local concentration and agglomeration of resources and competencies in these domains’ (Foray, 2015, p. 1).”