Smart specialisation is a new innovation policy concept[1] which has been has been developed in Europe to indicate flexible and dynamic innovation strategies, which adopted by a single region but assessed at the national and EU level, with the aim to avoiding fragmentation efforts in the field of innovation support. All EU member states Regions… Continue reading Smart Specialisation in a City Context
Category: Smart Specialization
The New Context of Regional Development Strategies
Bearing is often working on city and regional development strategies, and most often, the places we work with face similar challenges. Retention and attraction of talents and Investments has always been important to economic development, but it is even more critical to building competitive regions in today’s post-crises economy. Through the history of economic development,… Continue reading The New Context of Regional Development Strategies
Place Excellence in the Age of Globalisation and Austerity
“..because the execution of an idea is always more important than the brilliance of the thought..” – Executing Your Strategy – by Morgan, Levitt & Maleck – Harvard Business Publishing During the last few decades, the challenges to manage cities and towns has become increasingly more complex. Today we live in a time that for… Continue reading Place Excellence in the Age of Globalisation and Austerity
European Regional Competitiveness Scoreboard
Smart Specialisation or RIS3 (Research and Innovation strategies for Smart Specialisation) is a strategic approach to economic development through targeted support for research and innovation. It involves a process of developing a vision, identifying regionally based areas of greatest strategic potential, developing multi-stakeholder governance mechanisms, setting strategic priorities and using smart policies to maximize the… Continue reading European Regional Competitiveness Scoreboard
Globalisation and The Shifting Costs of Manufacturing
“As if Japan weren’t small enough to begin with, I fail to understand why it is necessary to think of it in even smaller units. No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language, I don’t feel out of place. I think of the earth as my home. If… Continue reading Globalisation and The Shifting Costs of Manufacturing
Public consultation on EU Urban Agenda and the Integrated Territorial Investment platform
Public consultation is a regulatory process by which the public’s input on matters affecting them is sought. Now a new EU public consultation has been announced, that ought to help all great cities of the European Union in preparing the necessary Integrated Territorial Investment platform. Following the news from a few days ago that the… Continue reading Public consultation on EU Urban Agenda and the Integrated Territorial Investment platform
Innovation Driven Growth in Regions
The OECD has published a report on “Innovation-driven Growth in Regions: The Role of Smart Specialisation”. The report aims to bridge the gap between theory and implementation through case studies that illustrate the conditions in which the concept of smart specialisation can be used to design better public policies for boosting innovation driven growth in… Continue reading Innovation Driven Growth in Regions
East Sweden Region – the county of Östergötland’s adaptation of RIS3
Yesterday I published a brief article about what we mean with RIS3. Today I will tell you a bit about the implementation of RIS3 in the East Sweden Region, where we are working on developing and now implementing smart specialisation since more than one year. Strategic governance and operationalisation There is currently extensive work within… Continue reading East Sweden Region – the county of Östergötland’s adaptation of RIS3
RIS3 – What is it?
The Global Financial Crisis It is six years ago now, since the global financial crises hit us. It is considered by many economists the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and it resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock… Continue reading RIS3 – What is it?
Regional Development for Growth and Smart Specialisation in East Sweden
Strategic governance and virtual cooperation structure to stimulate regional growth The Region of Östergötland in Sweden has for the last few years worked with development and implementation of a new, unique virtual organisation and Quad-helix based cooperation structure for governance and execution of its Regional development plan and Regional innovation strategy. Bearing is in this… Continue reading Regional Development for Growth and Smart Specialisation in East Sweden