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

Higher Education for Smart Specialisation, A Handbook

The Higher Education in Smart Specialisation (HESS) project has been developed in collaboration with DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (EAC) since 2016 and seeks to engage stakeholders from Higher...
[Event Announcement] Regional Innovation Impact of Universities in Europe

The event will bring together national and regional policymakers, higher education institutions and international experts interested in exploring how universities can increase their regional engagement...
JRC SUPPORT TO TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) supports the Western Balkan economies not only in developing their smart specialisation strategies but also at an operational level - through the Competence Centre on Technology...

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Events

Regional Innovation Impact of Universities in Europe

The event will bring together national and regional policymakers, higher education institutions and international experts interested in exploring how universities can increase their regional engagement...
Regional Innovation Impact of Universities in Europe

The event will bring together national and regional policymakers, higher education institutions and international experts interested in exploring how universities can increase their regional engagement...
Smart Specialisation for Blue Economy Workshop

The Joint Research Centre and DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), in cooperation with DG Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), are organising a dedicated workshop as initial step to develop...

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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

CfP and Call for special session proposals: SMARTER Conference

Conference on Smart Specialisation and Territorial Development: Connecting grand societal challenges with local goals in place-based innovation policy.
Call for Event Partners: European Week of Regions and Cities

Application deadline: Friday 27 March 2020 The European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) have launched the...
INNOSUP-01-2018-2020 call for proposals for cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains

Opened on November 7, the INNOSUP-01-2018-2020 call for proposals for cluster facilitated projects for new industrial value chains has an allocated budget of 25.150.000 EUR and aimes at ...

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Documents

Rethinking the ‘Entrepreneurial Discovery Process’ in times of physical distancing

The “Entrepreneurial Discovery Process” is a key element of Smart Specialisation Strategy, referring to stakeholder involvement in policy design to ‘discover’ and identify new or existing priorities for...
Assessing Smart Specialisation: governance

This report provides some insights on the impact of Smart Specialisation on the governance of research and innovation policy systems across EU regions and countries. ___ First, the analysis explores...
JRC: An intervention-logic approach for the design and implementation of S3 strategies

Smart specialisation is conceptualised as research and innovation policymaking encompassed in a holistic place-based view of development.

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Projects

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...
High-Level Innovation for a Value-Driven Exploitation of a Joint S3 in The Adriatic Area

The HIVES Project wants to deal with the main challenges in the field of entrepreneurial innovation in the IPA Adriatic area: low R&D investments,low propensity among SME to collaborate on knowledge...

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