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Smart Specialisation Strategies
By Lewis DijkstraDeputy Head of the Analysis UnitDG 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 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
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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
• 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
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
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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