Call for papers: Conference: “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation”
The aim of the SmartEIZ conference is to address contemporary challenges of designing and implementing the Smart Specialization Strategy across Europe. Even though S3 is a promising approach, which in the EU is supported by the Structural Funds, there is not a lot of evidence on neither how S3 is being implemented nor on its effects. In addition, the issue of adequacy of priorities, chosen by different countries, may in itself lead them to suboptimal outcomes. The conference will explore the influence of an institutional framework on the implementation of S3, the influence of S3 on the development of industry 4.0., as well as the influence on future industry.
By bringing together distinguished academics together with senior policy makers and young researchers from the partner institutions on SmartEIZ project―University Bocconi, UNU MERIT and UCL―the conference will explore contributions which emerged during the implementation of this project. Also, conference planning will bring contributions which reflect new findings related to the Smart Specialization Strategy, as well as findings relevant for future industrial and innovation policy.
List of topics
1. Design and implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy
- Assessing R&D/innovation programs in the Smart Specialization Strategy
- Governing in the Smart Specialization Strategy and its effects
- Fostering strategic alliances for the Research and Innovation Strategy
- Smart skills.
2. Topics relevant for the Smart Specialization Strategy
- Technology, growth and productivity, including KET
- Skills and technological change: Policy issue
- Technology, skills, and employment
- Companies’ innovation and productivity
- Pattern of deindustrialization and its effects on national/regional competitiveness.
3. Innovation system and its interaction with different categories of actors
- Clusters and their interaction with the national/regional innovation system
- Science-industry link
- Facilitating key enabling technology in the national/regional innovation system
- Entrepreneurship and knowledge-based economy
- Evaluation of individual R&D, innovation policy instruments.
4. Globalization, internationalization, and innovation systems
- Global Value Chains (GVCs)
- Various aspects of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)
- Public policies in the attraction of FDI
- Global industry 4.0.
- Internationalization of innovation/industrial policy.
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