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Smart Specialisation
Strategies
By Lewis Dijkstra
Deputy Head of the Analysis Unit
DG for Regional Policy
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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
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Ex-ante conditionality
Related to two of the eleven themes for CSF:
1. Strengthening research, technological
development and innovation
2. Enhancing access to and use of quality ICT
3. Plus in the EAFRD, fostering knowledge transfer
and innovation in agriculture, forestry and rural
areas
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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
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What it is not
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Cluster policy
Only for advanced regions
Sector policy
Focussed only on high-tech
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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'
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Who should become involved?
• Triple Helix (public
authorities, knowledge
actors, enterprises)
PLUS
• Civil society
• International experts
• Investors
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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
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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
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6 Steps
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Analyse regional context and innovation potential
Set up sound and inclusive governance structure,
Create a shared vision of the future of the region,
A limited set of priorities for regional development
Establish suitable policy mixes,
Integrate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
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For more information:
Guide to Research and Innovation
Strategies for Smart Specialisations
http://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
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
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