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Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe

298 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This monograph presents the experience in the implementation of smart specialization strategies (S3) from multilevel policy governance, as well as from the bottom-up perspectives of firms, clusters, and networks in selected European countries. The presented research focuses on relevance and feasibility of the S3 adoption, emphasizing the importance of linking policy considerations with... Read more

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Professor Dominique Foray

Introduction: The Expansion of the Smart Specialization Concept and Practice

Marta Gancarczyk, Anna Ujwary-Gil, and Manuel González-López

Part 1. Regional Smart Specialization Policies: An Experience in Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring

1. Regional Smart Specializations in Central and Eastern Europe: Between Political Decisions and Revealed Technological Potential

Krzysztof Klincewicz, Magdalena Marczewska, and Christopher L. Tucci

2. The Implementation of the Smart Specialization Approach in the Peripheral Region of Galicia

María del Carmen Sánchez-Carreira, Manuel González-López, and Pedro Varela-Vázquez

3. Challenges for Monitoring Smart Specialisation in the European Union

Elżbieta Wojnicka-Sycz, Korneliusz Pylak, Piotr Sliż, and Piotr Sycz

Part 2. Smart Specialization in the Sub-Regional and Local Government Context

4. The Impacts of Policy Instruments to Stimulate Bottom-Up Approaches for Smart Specialization: The Case of Baden-Wuerttemberg

Elisabeth Baier

5. Exploring the Relationship between Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) and Smart City (SC) Initiatives in the Context of Inland Norway

Xiang Ying Mei and Victoria Konovalenko Slettli

6. City Smart Specializations in Tourism: The Cases of Kraków, Poland, and Košice, Slovakia

Jacek Gancarczyk, Vanda Marakova, and Ewa Wszendybył-Skulska

Part 3. Smart Growth of Enterprises, Clusters, and Networks

7. The Quadruple Helix Partnerships for Enterprise Eco-Innovation in Italian Macro-Regions under the Lens of Smart Specialization strategy

Ivano Dileo and Marco Pini

8. Smart Specialization through Cluster Policy: Evidence from Poland and Germany

Anna Lis, Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski, and Marta Mackiewicz

9. Municipality Digital Platforms and Local Development in the Warmia and Mazury Region: Implications for Smart Specialization

Aleksander Jakimowicz and Daniel Rzeczkowski

Biography

Marta Gancarczyk is Associate Professor at the Institute of Economics, Finance, and Management, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Anna Ujwary-Gil is Associate Professor at Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.

Manuel González-López is a researcher and Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Santiago de Compostela and member of ICEDE Research Group.