This is the summary of the workshop "STI Roadmaps for SDGs: Smart Specialisation for Territorial and Industrial Development in Rwanda " held in Kigali on January 9-10 2020. The workshop is part of the JRC Exploratory Activity " Smart Specialisation in innovative and informal African economies"

Following the first global workshop on Smart Specialisation held in Seville (Spain) in September 2018, the Smart Specialisation Platform published a Science for Policy Report on "Smart Specialisation in the world, an EU policy approach helping to discover innovation globally". Smart Specialisation, as a place-based and innovative approach to innovation, was conceived as a "Made in EU" concept associated to the European cohesion policy. Under this umbrella, it has triggered the development of more than 120 Smart Specialisation Strategies among European Union (EU) regions and Member States in recent years. Nonetheless, the European roots of Smart Specialisation have gradually grown beyond EU borders. Smart Specialisation has started inspiring several regions and countries all over the world, and demonstrates a strong potential to feed into the international agenda on Sustainable Development.

Fact-sheet Overview Argentine Republic

Fact-sheet Overview Commonwealth of Australia

Fact-sheet Overview Republic of Chile

Fact-sheet Overview People's Republic of China

Fact-sheet Overview Republic of Colombia

Fact-sheet Overview Republic of Peru

Fact-sheet Overview United Mexican States

Fact-sheet Overview Federative Republic of Brazil