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Smart Specialisation Strategies

By Lewis DijkstraDeputy Head of the Analysis UnitDG for Regional Policy


Smart specialisation strategies

• Developed by Dominique Foray, John Goddard, Xabier Goenaga, Mikel Landabaso, Philip McCann, Kevin Morgan, Claire Nauwelaers and Raquel Ortega-Argiles

• To ensure that Cohesion Policy can contribute to a maximum effect to the Europe 2020 strategy, reinforce policy performance and thematic concentration


Ex-ante conditionality

Related to two of the eleven themes for CSF:1.Strengthening research, technological development and innovation2.Enhancing access to and use of quality ICT

3.Plus in the EAFRD, fostering knowledge transfer and innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural areas


What we should avoid?

• Picking winners• Copying strategies from best performing regions• Public sector driven without sufficient

involvement of businesses and other actors• Capture by local elites• Creating a strategy:

• Without an analysis of region's assets• Without an understanding of the region in an

international or transregional perspective


What it is not

• Cluster policy• Only for advanced regions• Sector policy• Focussed only on high-tech


Four Cs for RIS3

• Choices and Critical Mass: Limit priorities

• Competitive Advantage: RTD+I capacities and entrepreneurship

• Connectivity: internal and external

• Collaborative Leadership: 'quadruple helix'


Who should become involved?

• Triple Helix (public authorities, knowledge actors, enterprises)

PLUS• Civil society• International experts• Investors


How to set structural change in motion?

• Transition to different sector with similar technology

• Modernisation: upgrading of existing technology using a Key Enabling Technology

• Diversification through the use of synergies• Radical foundation of a new domain


Where: a role for every region

• Entrepreneurial process of discovery

• Sectors that can achieve critical mass: embedded and related

• Connectivity digitally and physically

• Integration of policies at the regional level


6 Steps

1. Analyse regional context and innovation potential2. Set up sound and inclusive governance structure,3. Create a shared vision of the future of the region,4. A limited set of priorities for regional development5. Establish suitable policy mixes,6. Integrate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

For more information: Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisationshttp://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information/brochures/index_en.cfm#1

And new legislative proposals:http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/index_en.cfm

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