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NEW publication on: Implementing smart specialisation - thematic platform on industrial modernisation
29 Sep 2017Interim evaluation of the programme for the competitiveness of enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME) (2014-2020)
31 Aug 2017First report on RIS3 progress in Lithuania published
17 Jul 2017Smart Specialisation in Energy – How Europe's regions are implementing their priorities?
16 Jun 2016Key concepts and models for urban and regional smart specialization innovation strategies (RIS3)
02 Jun 2015
S3 Governance
Ensuring participation and ownership in the S3 Process
The fact that RIS3 is based on a wide view of innovation automatically implies that stakeholders of different types and levels should participate extensively in its design. The perhaps most common, tripartite governance model based on the involvement of industry, education and research institutions, and government (the so-called Triple Helix model), is no longer enough in the context of smart specialisation.
Innovation users or groups representing demand-side perspectives and consumers, relevant non-profit organisations representing citizens and workers should all be taken on board of the design process of RIS3. In other words this means that the governance model includes both the market and the civic society. When it comes to the sensitive moment of deciding on strategic priorities, a truly inclusive RIS3 governance structure should be able to prevent capture by specific interest groups, powerful lobbies, or major regional stakeholders.
In order to secure that all stakeholders own and share the strategy, governance schemes should allow for 'collaborative leadership', meaning that hierarchies in decision-making should be flexible enough in order to let each actor to have a role and eventually take the lead in specific phases of RIS3 design, according to actors' characteristics, background, and capacities.
When actors are many and different, it might be very difficult for them to find their own way to collaborate and manage potential conflicts. In order to tackle this potential problem, RIS3 governance bodies should include 'boundary spanners', that is to say, people or organisations with interdisciplinary knowledge or proven experience in interaction with different actors, and who can hence help moderate the process.
Events
EIT Awareness Day in Serbia
06 Feb 2018Smart Specialisation in Energy, driving societal challenges
21 Jun 2017First CatLabs Innovation Camp
06 Jun 2017 - 08 Jun 2017Smart Regions 2.0 Conference: Maximising Europe's Innovation Potential
01 Jun 2017 - 02 Jun 2017Second meeting of the working group on RIS3 monitoring in lagging regions
04 May 2017 - 04 Jul 2017
Publications
Innovation Camp Methodology Handbook
S3 Handbooks Gabriel Rissola, Hank Kune, Paolo Martinez
Smart Specialisation at work: The entrepreneurial discovery as a continuous process
12/2017 Elisabetta Marinelli, Inmaculada Perianez-Forte
Smart Specialisation at work: Analysis of the calls launched under ERDF Operational Programmes
11/2017 Carlo Gianelle, Fabrizio Guzzo, Krzysztof Mieszkowski
Promoting innovation in transition countries: A trajectory for smart specialisation
JRC Science for Policy Report Alexander Kleibrink, Philippe Laredo and Stefan Philipp
Fraunhofer Policy Brief on Smart Specialisation
Henning Kroll