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The Recent Place-Based Shift in US Green Industrial and Technological Policies

This report documents the recent and dramatic pivot in the USA’s federal industrial policy arena towards a much more explicitly place-based policy approach. This place-based approach is aimed at revitalising economically weaker regions in the national service of upgrading the US’s technological...

Philip McCann
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Missions and Cohesion Policy: Living separate or dancing together?

The JRC-TEDAM working paper explores avenues for cross-fertilisation between the mission oriented approach and cohesion policy. On the one hand, missions can help restore a strong sense of identity into cohesion policy and strengthen its impact through more directionality. On the other hand,...

CAPPELLANO Francesco; MOLICA Francesco; MAKKONEN Teemu
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Capacities for transformative innovation in public administrations and governance systems

Despite mounting interest in transformative innovation policies, there are only few studies that provide insights with regards to their implementation. The present study asks which policy design features make a policy transformative and what capacities public administration and the broader...

Janssen, Matthijs; Wanzenböck, Iris; Fünfschilling, Lea; Pontikakis, Dimitrios
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Sustainable development and Sustainable Development Goals in Smart Specialisation strategies in the European Arctic regions

The revised EU Arctic Policy highlights smart specialisation as an important approach for innovation policy helping to strengthen the capacity and resilience of the European Arctic societies and economies (European Commission, 2021). With its overarching goals to foster structural transformation,...

TERAS Jukka; EIKELAND Sveinung; KOIVUROVA Timo; SALENIUS Viktor; MIEDZINSKI Michal
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The identification of priority domains in Kosovo. A mapping exercise

This study supports a first identification of the economic and productive domains that might be considered in the selection of the priority areas for a Smart Specialisation Strategy in Kosovo. It includes both a quantitative and a qualitative analysis that identify a number of industries and...

HOLLANDERS, Hugo; REXHËBEQAJ, Valmira; GERUSSI, Elisa
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Discovery processes for transformative innovation policy, Lessons learned from the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP) practice

The purpose of this paper is to review available studies on how “Entrepreneurial Discovery Processes” were practiced and identify which lessons learned are relevant to the new context of transformative innovation policies, where “discovery and experimentation” processes will continue to be a key...

Laranja Manuel, Perianez-Forte Inmaculada, Reimeris Ramojus