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This publication presents the results of a survey, launched in 2020 as part of a research project performed by the Smart Specialisation platform to gain new insights on the Smart Specialisation (S3) policy experience across the European Union (EU). Survey results provides evidence on the state of...

HEGYI Fatime Barbara; GUZZO Fabrizio; PERIANEZ FORTE Inmaculada; GIANELLE Carlo

This background paper serves as an Annex to the United Nation’s Guidebook for the Preparation of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for SDGs Roadmaps. Its purpose is to provide an overview of the existing methodologies and approaches that can be used to develop the Roadmaps. While the first...

MATUSIAK Monika; CIAMPI STANCOVA Katerina; DOSSO Mafini; DANIELS Chux; MIEDZIŃSKI Michał

This Guidebook is intended for interested national and local governments, agencies and institutions that wish to use roadmaps as a policy tool to harness STI as a means to achieve the SDGs. It may also be of interest to stakeholders taking part in the dialogue – an essential stage in design,...

UNITED NATIONS INTER-AGENCY TASK TEAM Science Technology And Innovation For Sdgs; EUROPEAN COMMISSION Joint Research Centre

LARANJA Manuel; MARQUES SANTOS Anabela; EDWARDS John; FORAY Dominique

The report assesses the effect of Smart Specialisation Strategies on regional productivity, based on the case of Portugal.

MARQUES SANTOS Anabela; EDWARDS John; NETO Paulo

This policy insight provides an overview of the 2020 assessment on how and to what extent Smart Specialisation monitoring and evaluation systems put in place across Europe allow and contribute to a cyclical policy learning process for improved policy design and implementation.

Fatime Barbara Hegyi, Francesco Prota

Our analysis aims to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation systems of national and regional authorities implementing Smart Specialisation strategies. In addition, based on the literature review and on the evidence gathered by our research project, this publication...

Fatime Barbara Hegyi, Francesco Prota

The review of industrial transition in Bulgaria analyses the current situation and also sketches future directions for the development of industrial capabilities that, in the spirit of the European Green Deal, jointly tackle economic and societal challenges.

STEFANOV, Ruslan; BOEKHOLT, Patries; PONTIKAKIS, Dimitris

Developing an S3 and EDP that support systemic transitions requires a new institutional design. The new EU programming period offers significant opportunities and those involved in Cohesion policy should seize them by being open to working in new and challenging ways.

MARINELLI, Elisabetta; FERNÁNDEZ, Tatiana; PONTIKAKIS, Dimitrios

In 2018 the European Commission launched a flagship initiative for Vocational Education and Training (VET), a policy area in which the European Union (EU) has intervened since the Treaty of Rome. Labelled Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs), the objective is to support pioneers of high...

Edwards, J.H., Redford, D. and Paiva, T.