Shaping smart specialization: the role of place-specific factors in advanced, intermediate and less-developed European regions

By Michaela Trippl, Elena Zukauskaite, A. Healy. Regional studies, 2019

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ABSTRACT This paper examines the ways by which organizational and institutional features of regional innovation systems shape smart specialization practices in less-developed, intermediate and advanced regions. Drawing on research from 15 European regions, it shows that the implantation of smart specialization creates challenges in all three types of regions. At the same time, there is evidence that smart specialization supports policy-learning and system-building efforts in less-developed regions and facilitates policy reorientation and system transformation in more advanced regions.

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

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Six critical questions about smart specialization (2019, background): “Moreover, as observed by Trippl, Zukauskaite, and Healy (2019), while organizationally thick regions may be better prepared for smart specialization, these regions also face difficulties to make tough choices as regards to whom to include in the smart specialization practice and how to balance the…”
The dark side of regional industrial path development: towards a typology of trajectories of decline (2019, background): “Following MacKinnon et al. (2019) and Trippl et al. (2019), we recognize the need to also pay due attention to the role played (or not played) by different types of actors, including firms and non-firm actors (such as universities, regional development agencies, labour unions, policy actors, and so…”