Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy

By Philip McCann, R. Ortega-Argilés. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Both Marshall and Jacobs were Right! (2016, background): “These results underline the need for smart specialization strategies that explicitly take context seriously in developing sound regional development policies (cf. McCann and Ortega-Argilés 2013).”
Territorial capital, smart tourism specialization and sustainable regional development: experiences from Europe. (2017, background): “…scale – the smart city (Kourtit et al., 2012; Caragliu and Del Bo, 2012) – or at the regional level – like the “smart specialization” (Foray et al., 2012; McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2015) – enlarging the scope of sustainable development, mostly through the incorporation of aspects related to the…”
Smart specialisation, entrepreneurship and SMEs: issues and challenges for a results-oriented EU regional policy (2016, methodology): “Indeed, translating the non-spatial smart specialisation logic to an explicitly spatial setting is not so difficult, because many parallel developments in economic geography had been moving in very similar directions (McCann and Ortega-Argilés 2015a).”
Regional worlds: from related variety in regional diversification to strategic coupling in global production networks (2020, background): “In the arena of regional policy and practice, one recent initiative in related regional diversification is the European Union’s Smart Specialisation programme (Balland et al., 2019; McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2015; OECD, 2012; Whittle & Kogler, 2020).”
Smart specialization policy in the European Union: relatedness, knowledge complexity and regional diversification (2019, background): “…bringing smart specialization policy more in line with the objective of Cohesion Policy that aims at reducing disparities between EU regions, and which has repeatedly been mentioned as one of the key challenges in EU regional innovation policy (McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2013, 2015; Morgan, 2015).”
Regional Branching and Key Enabling Technologies: Evidence from European Patent Data (2017, background): “These strategies are meant to foster entrepreneurs’ ability to discover new learning opportunities for the region by drawing on previously accumulated knowledge (McCann and Ortega-Argilés (2015): in short, by regional branching (Boschma and Giannelle 2014).”
On the policy space of smart specialization strategies (2016, background): “Setting up such a process in every European region has become an important objective of EU cohesion policy – known as RIS3 (see Foray, 2015; Foray, David, & Hall, 2009; McCann, 2015; McCann & Ortega-Argiles, 2015).”
The early experience of smart specialization implementation in EU cohesion policy (2016, background): “…Müller, et al., 2014), however, when translated into a regional and geographical context, the overall conceptual approach has been shown to be well-founded and to offer important policy-related opportunities and possibilities for enhancing regional innovation (McCann & Ortega-Argilés, 2015).”
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).”