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This report elaborates on the benefits and opportunities of collaboration between the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) and the communities involved in developing and implementing Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart...

Nida Kamil Ozbolat, Karel Haegeman, Katerina Sereti

This document reports the key outcomes of the Study on the use of open data, open science & innovation (ODSI) for S3. The study was commissioned by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) to SIRIS Academic and implemented, in a collaborative fashion, from May to December 2019.

Elisabetta Marinelli, Enric Fuster Martí, Sabine Plaud, Arnau Quinquilla, Francesco Massucci

This report explores some of the main challenges, providing lessons and recommendations, on three important components of the Smart Specialisation policy framework: governance, entrepreneurial discovery process and monitoring.

Fabrizio Guzzo; Inmaculada Perianez-Forte

Building upon 35 cases, this report examines how the Smart Specialisation approach was put into practice across European regions and Member States.

Caroline Cohen

This paper gives an overview of the main elements of the Smart Specialisation concept and surveys the existing strategic frameworks for innovation in the Western Balkan economies. The analysis addresses the relevance of these frameworks and policy documents for smart specialisation, and...

Nikola Radovanovic; Maximilian Benner

Michalis METAXAS

Vocational Education and Training (VET) can play a much bigger role in Smart Specialisation Strategies than has so far been considered. This is because VET encompasses skill development as well as innovation diffusion and applied research – which together can have a more direct impact on...

Ellen Hazelkorn; John Edwards

This report explores with a comparative approach the regional variation in organisation and implementation of DIHs across six (6) different EU regions: Saxony-Anhalt (Germany), Wielkopolska (Poland), Northern Ostrobothnia (Finland), Tallinn (Estonia), Andalusia (Spain) and Central Macedonia...

Johan Miorner, Annita Kalpaka, Jens Sorvik, Joakim Wernberg

This report presents the results of a DIH Survey conducted among DIH managers and regional policy managers working with Smart Specialisation Strategies all over the EU28.

Johan Miorner, Gabriel Rissola, Jens Sorvik, Joakim Wernberg

This report presents some conceptual developments and original empirical results on how and to what extent the Smart Specialisation approach to regional innovation policy is currently being translated into strategic decisions and policy interventions in European Union regions and countries. This...

Carlo GIANELLE, Fabrizio GUZZO, Krzysztof MIESZKOWSKI