Smart Specialisation

Smart specialisation strategies (RIS 3 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 focus of the WBC-RTI.info newsletter in 2016 and 2018. You can find the related articles here and here.

News

POLICY ANSWERS supporting special Panel Session on ‘EU Initiatives and synergies for a smart and green future’

POLICY ANSWERS is supporting a special panel session entitled ‘EU Initiatives and synergies for a smart and green future’ at the upcoming regional Economic Conference Montenegro 2022. The Chamber of...
Montenegrin start-ups at the Web Summit in Lisbon

A second year in a row, the Capital City of Podgorica in cooperation with ICT Cortex organized a public call for support to the start-up community in the ICT sector. The aim of the Call was to provide...
[Call Announcement] DEADLINE EXTENSION : 2022 SAF€RA joint call for proposals

The pre-proposal deadline for SAF€RA's 2022 call has been extended to September 22nd (from September 5th), by popular demand. See https://call.safera.eu/2022/ SAF€RA launched its seventh...

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Events

Panel Session:´EU Initiatives and synergies for a smart and green future’ at the Economic Conference 2022

POLICY ANSWERS is supporting a special panel session entitled ‘EU Initiatives and synergies for a smart and green future’ at the upcoming regional Economic Conference Montenegro 2022. The Chamber of...
Enterprise Europe Network Annual Conference "New Network, new realities, new impact"

The Enterprise Europe Network Annual Conference is the Network’s flagship event. This year’s edition will take place on 25-27 October 2022 in a hybrid format, at the O2 universum in Prague, the Czech ...
Science and Innovation Days

The festival Science and Innovation Days, organized by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, will be held from September 29 to October 2. It aims to promote science and innovation ...

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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

Exploration of impact investment for skills creation: Existing actions, emerging trends, implementation modalities, best practice. A case study with relevance to the Western Balkans region

This study provides an overview of impact investment and skills creation in innovation, covering the main features of impact investment, the historical development of the phenomenon, and how it ...
Smart specialisation implementation framework for the EU enlargement and neighbourhood region

As economies in the European Union Enlargement and Neighbourhood Region are gathering pace in developing their respective Smart Specialisation Strategies, their focus is moving from the design...
Skills for smart specialisation: A handbook based on experience

While smart specialisation is primarily about the economics of specialisation, vocational education and training (VET) and skills are the engine that drive smart specialisation. The ETF’s methodological...

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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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