Facilitating an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process for Smart Specialisation. The Case of Poland

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study stakeholder involvement in research and innovation policy in Poland in the context of smart specialisation exercise. The article addresses the questions to what extent initiatives such as the foresight programmes, strategic research and development programmes, and sectoral research programmes facilitate the entrepreneurial discovery process for smart specialisation. The role of different groups of actors varies substantially in terms of their involvement and impact on such initiatives. The foresight and strategic research and development programmes were dominated by representatives of the research community and embody a research-oriented top-down approach. The sectoral research programmes are most closely related to the bottom-up and demand-driven approach in which the leading role is played by entrepreneurs. For this reason, they are more familiar with the conditions of the entrepreneurial discovery process. In this case, the important role is also played by the governmental agency which facilitates those processes.

The future of business in Visegrad region

“…Three of the four countries (CZ, HU, PL) realised their national Foresight exercises sponsored by respective governments [15,25,26] and many regional and sectoral Foresight projects were executed [27][28][29], taking the advantage of EU structural funds. However, as evaluation of these show [30] the use of the results in policy making (for example when developing national or regional smart specialization strategies) was limited [20]. Similarly, the involvement of V4 business sector in publicly funded Foresight exercises have been remarkably low and resulted in marginal knowledge of the concept and its benefits [13,31].…”

“…In order to support the region's position in the global value chain race [16] the V4 region needs shared visions about the future of business and shared actions combined with smart specialization policies implementation [19,20] to take advantage from interregional opportunities and be up to international competition. Certainly, Foresight capacity building is instrumental to enabling the development and deployment of shared business strategy and growth plans in the region.…”

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