Smart Specialisation | Partnerships for Regional Innovation

Smart specialisation strategies (RIS3 or S3) are about enabling regions to turn their needs, strengths and competitive advantages into marketable goods and services. They aim to prioritise public research and innovation investments through a bottom up approach for the economic transformation of regions, building on regional competitive advantages and facilitating market opportunities in new inter-regional and European value chains. They help regions to anticipate, plan and accompany their process of economic modernisation.

The S3 approach is thus characterised by the identification of strategic areas for intervention based both on the analysis of the strengths and potential of the economy and on an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EDP) with wide stakeholder involvement. It embraces a broad view of innovation supported by effective monitoring mechanisms. Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS3 or S3) set priorities at national and regional level to build competitive advantage by developing and matching research and innovation own strengths with business needs, to address emerging opportunities and market developments in a coherent manner, while avoiding duplication and fragmentation of efforts. They are also a backbone of national or regional research and innovation strategic policy frameworks in Europe.

Since 2011, the Smart Specialisation Platform (S3 Platform) acts as a facilitator for regions and countries in the uptake and incorporation of the smart specialisation concept and methodology in their research and innovation strategies. The community is continuously growing. (Source: EC-JRC).

Smart Specialisation has already been in the focus of the WBC-RTI.info newsletter in 2016 and 2018. You can find the related articles here and here. Further related articles posted since then are also collated below.

News

Entrepreneurial Discovery Process in The Republic of Albania: Partnership with The Quadruple Helix Actors in Developing the Country Smart Specialization Strategy

In 2017 the Republic of Albania initiated the preparatory process for developing the country Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) , under the supervision and guidance of the Joint Research Centre. ...
[Video Announcement] POLICY ANSWERS Special Panel Session at the Economic Conference in Montenegro 2022

POLICY ANSWERS supported a special panel session entitled ‘EU Initiatives and synergies for a smart and green future’ at the regional Economic Conference Montenegro 2022. The Chamber of Commerce ...
What the Enlargement Package says on Science and Research

The European Commission's "Enlargement package", adopted in October 2022, provides a detailed assessment of the state of play and the progress made by the Western Balkans and Türkiye on their respective...

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Events

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL DISCOVERY PROCESS IN ALBANIA : MOUNTAIN TOURISM

Mountain tourism was the key topic of the second EDP activity for the tourism sector, held on 3 November 2022 at the Xheko Imperial Hotel. Throughout this activity, the quadruple helix actors gained a...
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL DISCOVERY PROCESS IN ALBANIA : MARITIME TOURISM

The marine tourism roundtable was held on November 9th, 2022, at the Hotel Mondial premises. This activity initiated with a presentation on the “Entrepreneurial Discovery Process in the Republic of Albania...
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL DISCOVERY PROCESS IN ALBANIA : HEALTHCARE TOURISM

The last EDP acitvity for the toursim sector was organized on November 3rd 2022, at the premises of Xheko Imperial Hotel. This event was in particular focused on the healthcare tourism, a relatively new...

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Organisations

European Commission - Joint Research Centre - IPTS - Spain

The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) is one of the seven scientific institutes of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), located in Seville, Spain. Since 1994, ...

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Calls

3rd Open Call for Focused Technology Transfer Experiments

SMART4ALL is a H2020 funded project (Grant Agreement No. 872614) that builds capacity amongst European stakeholders via the development of self-sustained, cross-border experiments that transfer...
Entrepreneurial Academy 2023 - Submit your proposal

Join us to boost entrepreneurship and digital education in Europe! Would you like to boost entrepreneurship and deep-tech education in Europe? Submit your proposal to the EIT Digital Entrepreneurial...
EIC - EIT Digital Venture Building Programme

For EIC Pathfinder and EIC Transition beneficiaries The EIC - EIT Digital Venture Building Programme is an incubation bootcamp that allows EIC-supported innovators to benefit from the support...

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Documents

The identification of Smart Specialisation priority domains in Albania. A mapping exercise

This study by the JRC 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 Albania...
The identification of Smart Specialisation priority domains in Albania. A mapping exercise.

The mapping exercise described in this technical report contributes to gather evidence based information as a basis to select and define the priority areas of the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Albania...
Analytical report on the global innovations and monitoring of the status of smart education

UNESCO IITE, Higher School of Economics (HSE), and Beijing Normal University (BNU) released the publication Analytical Report on the Global Innovations and Monitoring of the Status of Smart Education. ...

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Projects

Territorial Responsible Research and Innovation Through the involvement of local R&I Actors

The TeRRItoria vision was to tackle a double challenge: to bring RRI to the forefront of the debate for developing local and regional R&I capacities; and to use RRI as a springboard for broadening...
Serbia Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (SAIGE)

Serbia has received a loan from the World BankGroup for the Serbia Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SAIGE) Project to support the strengthening of the Serbian Innovation and Entrepreneurship...
INNOPLATFORM

INNOPLATFORM aims at improving the competitiveness of the Balkan Mediterranean region by advancing existing knowledge on business model innovations and developing a set of tools (InnoTools) and services...

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