Abstract:This paper evaluates a programme of subsidies for collaborative industrial research (co-)funded by the European Union's Cohesion Policy in Italy mobilizing over €1 billion. In the 2007-13 funding cycle, the programme was a precursor to some of the key features of Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) programmes, offering evidence-based insights into potential challenges of the practical application of the S3 approach. The programme was unsuccessful in boosting investments, value added or employment of beneficiary… Show more
“…The second paper by Crescenzi et al (2018, in this issue), entitled 'Cohesion Policy incentives for collaborative industrial research: evaluation of a Smart Specialisation forerunner programme', performs an interesting impactevaluation exercise of a programme of subsidies for collaborative industrial research co-funded by Cohesion Policy in less developed Italian regions in the period 2007-13. They apply a regression discontinuity design to firm-level data exploiting a discontinuity in the independent scoring of a project proposal between funded and non-funded projects.…”
Section: The Contributions In This Special Issuementioning
This editorial is structured as follows. The next section provides a brief introduction to the genesis of the Smart Specialisation policy. The third section describes the content of the contributions included in the special issue.
“…The second paper by Crescenzi et al (2018, in this issue), entitled 'Cohesion Policy incentives for collaborative industrial research: evaluation of a Smart Specialisation forerunner programme', performs an interesting impactevaluation exercise of a programme of subsidies for collaborative industrial research co-funded by Cohesion Policy in less developed Italian regions in the period 2007-13. They apply a regression discontinuity design to firm-level data exploiting a discontinuity in the independent scoring of a project proposal between funded and non-funded projects.…”
Section: The Contributions In This Special Issuementioning
This editorial is structured as follows. The next section provides a brief introduction to the genesis of the Smart Specialisation policy. The third section describes the content of the contributions included in the special issue.
“…Policy makers within the EU quickly embraced the concept as early as 2013. Indeed, both the EU 2020 Innovation Plan and the EU Cohesion Policy encompass in key dimensions the Smart Specialization concept (Crescenzi et al 2018) However, in its early years, this concept lacked the appropriate theoretical underpinnings and empirical validation. Scholars since then have elaborated significantly on this concept for regional growth (Foray et al 2011(Foray et al , 2012McCann and Ortega-Argilés 2015).…”
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This paper provides insights on trademark activity at the regional level via two objectives. First, it examines the relationship between technological capabilities and new trademark applications. Second, it examines whether regions branch out to new trademark specializations that are related to their existing specializations. We employ EUIPO's data to study 218 European NUTS-2 regions (16 countries) over the period 2000-2016. Results show that increased technological stock is associated with more trademark applications and that existing trademark relatedness induces new specializations. These findings contribute to better understanding of trademark activity and policies related to regional diversification including Smart Specialization.
“…Dans le même temps, rendre ce système opérationnel nécessite de mettre en place des systèmes de suivi et d'évaluation des politiques (Bourdin & Ragazzi, 2018 ;Colletis-Wahl, 2018 ;Elouar-Mrizak & Picard, 2018) que l'on pourrait considérer comme des « mécanismes apprenants ». Les futures recherches devront s'attacher à identifier les limites et formaliser les trajectoires d'ajustement de cette politique de Cohésion réformée (Capello & Kroll, 2017 ;Crescenzi, de Blasio & Giua, 2018).…”
Section: La Réforme De La Politique De Cohésion Dans Les Faitsunclassified
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