258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic potential, developing mechanisms to involve the fullest range of stakeholders, before setting strategic priorities and using the policy to maximize... Read more

Table of Contents



Introduction



Chapter 1 The Concept of the "Entrepreneurial Discovery Process"



Dominique Foray





Chapter 2 Addressing EDP Pitfalls: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty



Dimitrios Kyriakou





Chapter 3 Institutions and the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process for Smart Specialization



Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie





Chapter 4 Speaking Truth to Power: The Political Dynamics of Public Sector Innovation



Kevin Morgan





Chapter 5 Structuring the entrepreneurial discovery process to promote private-public sector engagement



Francesco Grillo Scuola





Chapter 6 Entrepreneurial discovery process and Research and Technology Organisations



David Charles and Katerina Ciampi Stancova





Chapter 7 Monitoring Innovation and Development Strategies: Stakeholder Involvement, Learning, and Sustainable Policy Cycles



Carlo Gianelle and Alexander Kleibrink





Chapter 8 Bridging the gap between science, market and policy in Andalusia



Inmaculada Periañez-Forte and Clemente J. Navarro





Chapter 9 Implementing the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process in Eastern Macedonia & Thrace



Elisabetta Marinelli, Mark Boden and Karel Haegeman





Chapter 10 Continuous priority setting in the Norwegian VRI programme



Jens Sörvik and Inger Midtkandal





Chapter 11 Smart Specialisation entering the Finnish territory



Marja Nissinen





Chapter 12 The Impact of the entrepreneurial discovery process on the Decentralisation of Innovation Policies in central and eastern European Member States



Krzysztof Mieszkowski





Conclusion

Biography



Dimitrios Kyriakou is Senior Analyst of the Knowledge for Growth Unit at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain.



Manuel Palazuelos Martínez is Project leader of the Knowledge for Growth Unit at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain.



Inmaculada Periáñez-Forte is Scientific Officer of the Knowledge for Growth Unit at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain.



Alessandro Rainoldi is Head of the Knowledge for Growth Unit at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Spain.