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This publication is a part of the series of visual summaries of the results of the JRC project in Serbia: Smart Specialisation for Sustainable Development Goals. Pilot methodology for mapping Sustainable Development Goals in the context of Smart Specialisation Strategies. Visualisations included...

Project Coordinator: Monika Matusiak

This technical report presents the findings of the case study carried out in Lithuania on the role of Lithuanian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the design and implementation of the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3). It is one of the case studies undertaken in the project Higher...

Zilvinas Martinaitis, Eskarne Arregui Pabollet and Lina Stanionyte

In its third edition, the EU Blue Economy Report continues to analyse the scope and size of the Blue Economy in the European Union. It aims at providing support to policymakers and stakeholders in the quest for a sustainable development of oceans, coastal resources and, most notably, to the...

The European Commission Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, and t he Joint Research Centre

This paper examines how European regions can jointly pilot experimental policy support measures in precise S3 niches prior to their full-scale rollout in partner regions. By tackling new and often ambitious areas together, participating regions are able to test new policy support instruments...

Fatime Barbara Hegyi and Ruslan Rakhmatullin

This study was commissioned by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in the framework of the “Lagging Regions Project, launched in 2016.

This paper analyses some of the main challenges for the governance of Smart Specialisation in the South East Europe in the upcoming period, with the particular focus on Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia.

RADOVANOVIC Nikola; GERUSSI Elisa

This study aims at exploring and discussing learning opportunites stemming from the development and implementation of place-based smart specialisation. As specific examples, the study considers V4 countries, and asks how can and have public authorities in V4 countries benefitted from smart...

Katerina Ciampi Stancova

RAKHMATULLIN Ruslan; HEGYI Fatime Barbara; CIAMPI STANCOVA Katerina; GOMEZ PRIETO Javier; MIESZKOWSKI Krzysztof

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"

Mafini Dosso

Findings from action research in Lubelskie, Poland on the role of Higher Education Institutions in the design and implementation of its Smart Specialisation Strategy.

Marcin Kardas, Krzysztof Mieszkowski, John Edwards