Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?

Veldhuizen, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2020.103982

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“…Although the notion of specialization is relatively recent, the specialization helps to understand the effect of local specificity of a region on economic and technological development by having systematic regional innovation strategies and policies such as RIS3. Related to this, the recent case study of Veldhuizen (2020) suggests that the region‐based smart specialization as well as TH framework for “technological” innovation in a region can serve as useful analytical lens to explain the technological capacity of innovation policy for developing a specialized and sustainable RIS.…”

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“…Furthermore, congruent with recent calls for the evolutionary aspect on the RIS (see, e.g., Attour & Burger‐Helmchen, 2014; McAdam & Debackere, 2018) and sustainable development in regions (e.g., Gerstlberger, 2004; Lamine et al, 2018; Veldhuizen, 2020), this research investigates extended TH‐based RIS literature through conducting systemic literature review and identifying TH‐induced sustainability implications for developing sustainable RISs. Thus, we set the following research question: how and in which direction do the studies on the TH‐based RISs evolve , and what are the implications of such research for sustainability?…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Thus, specialization of the RIS in the literature adds a strategic perspective on the previous TH innovation model, taking economic, technological, and institutional aspects into account. In other words, formal regional institutions are decisive for the specialization of a region (see, e.g., Carayannis & Grigoroudis, 2016;European Commission, 2012, 2014, 2020.…”

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The evolution of N‐helix of the regional innovation system: Implications for sustainability

Lew

Park

2020

Sustainable Development

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This research examines the evolution of the study on triple helix (TH) approaches to the investigation of regional innovation systems (RISs). Prior studies on TH-based RISs have focused largely on complex interactions among innovation creating actors (i.e., university, industry, and government) and non-market institutions in various regional contexts. Although there are a growing number of TH-based RIS studies, they often ignore the evolutionary aspect of the RIS studies and implications for sustainability. Thus, herein we conduct a wide range of systematic literature review on the TH research in the RIS literature published from 1990 to 2017. The study identifies that the TH literature evolves into various N-helix models in particular, gravitating toward stakeholders, internationalization, specialization and ecological conservation, which offers various implications for sustainability in the regional development context. In the ages of globalization, digitalization, and socio-ecology, this study offers a comprehensive view on the TH research for sustainable development and suggests useful future research directions that academics and policymakers can benefit from.

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The evolution of N‐helix of the regional innovation system: Implications for sustainability

Lew

Park

2020

Sustainable Development

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“…To deal with these challenges, policies should reinforce the pre-existing alignment between S3 and sustainability into what has been also called "S4" [9]. This alignment can be reinforced through a focus on convergence, as poorer areas can particularly benefit from the use of new technologies to address pressing environmental problems [82]. This is not only a question of investing sufficient funds, although budget allocation has been linked to particular aspects of sustainable development [83].…”

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How Intellectual Capital Predicts Innovation Output in EU Regions: Implications for Sustainable Development

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Intellectual capital is an overarching concept that includes the intangible, human-related factors that are relevant to the innovation process, such as human capital and social capital. In the present study, intellectual capital was assessed by indicators measuring different aspects of human and social capital. Factor analysis demonstrated the existence of three underlying factors, with all variables of the model having important contributions to them. A linear regression analysis indicated that 8 out of the 12 variables of intellectual capital used have a statistically significant impact on the measure of innovation output. These findings were discussed and their implications for policy were considered. The paper provides research evidence on the importance of intellectual capital for innovation output and discusses potential ways to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the context of the next generation of sustainable smart specialisation strategies.

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“…This is the case, among others, of Partridge, Rickman, Rose Olfert and Tan (2013), Varga (2017), Magro and Wilson (2019), Blomi and Erlich (2020). Finally, studies that analyze the particular case of the application of specific public policy instruments aimed at the implementation of place-based policies -such as the regional smart specialisation strategies -and where the work of, among others, Neto, Serrano and Santos (2018), Gianelle, Guzzo and Mieszkowski (2020), Gianelle, Kyriakou, McCann and Morgan (2020), Neto and Santos (2020), Trippl, Zukauskaite and Healy (2020), Veldhuizen (2020), is contained.…”

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EU Cohesion Policy post-2020, European Green Deal and Territorial Agenda 2030. The future of the place-based approach in the new EU policy framework in the context of COVID-19

Neto

2020

Eur. XXI

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The European Union’s strategic priorities for the post-2020 period – focused on areas such as globalization, demography, migration, climate change, security and defense, employment and digitalization of the economy and society – pose relevant challenges as to the feasibility of its territorialization conditions and how to ensure operationalization at regional and local levels. As the EU prepares to implement the Cohesion Policy 2021-2027 and draw up the Territorial Agenda 2030, it also seeks to relaunch the EU policy framework in areas such as sustainable development, artificial intelligence and reindustrialization, examples of which are: European Green Deal, EU Circular Economy Action Plan and EU Digital Strategy. The current context of the COVID-19 pandemic has, however, forced a refocusing of the intervention priorities, at least in the short term, in the need to respond to the urgent economic, social and public health challenges caused by the pandemic. This article seeks to analyse, on the one hand, how the European policy cycle has adapted to respond to the pandemic, and on the other, the extent to which the place-based approach, one of the central operating rationales of the 2014-2020 financial perspective, may see its role strengthened and its performance extended as a consequence of the changes introduced in the current phase of the policy cycle due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis carried out led to concluding that the current context of COVID-19 is implying the redesign of many of the Union’s public policy instruments and reordering some of the current strategic priorities. It is also changing the conditions of resilience and competitiveness of territories, whereby the place-based approach seems to be a public policy instrument especially suited to the process of economic and social recovery at the local and regional level.

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Smart Specialisation as a transition management framework: Driving sustainability-focused regional innovation policy?

Cited by 40 publications

References 40 publications

The evolution of N‐helix of the regional innovation system: Implications for sustainability

The evolution of N‐helix of the regional innovation system: Implications for sustainability

How Intellectual Capital Predicts Innovation Output in EU Regions: Implications for Sustainable Development

EU Cohesion Policy post-2020, European Green Deal and Territorial Agenda 2030. The future of the place-based approach in the new EU policy framework in the context of COVID-19

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