Recent thinking about innovation and industrial policy emphasises purposeful related
diversification strategies or more transformative—but potentially riskier—challenge …

The paper takes smart specialisation strategies as the point of departure and frame of
reference for the discussion of innovation policies and regional innovation systems. It aims …

Today, when smart development is increasingly mentioned in public policies, the way
digitalization, as a key component of it, will transform the world in which we are living is …

The policy mix concept has become popular in innovation policy literature. It is particularly
relevant for complex challenges such as sustainable industrial transitions that require joined …

Promoting energy‐efficient technologies can support green entrepreneurship via innovation
creation. Energy efficiency policies and practices can promote cleaner productions and …

New industrial innovation policies like smart specialization aim at boosting economic growth
by diversification towards more complex and higher value economic activities. This paper …

This paper investigates how and to what extent the Smart Specialisation approach to
innovation policy is currently being translated into strategic decisions and policy …

The effect of digital transformation towards more efficient, place-based and bottom-up
innovation policies at different spatial scales has proven significant, as digital technologies …

An undesirable result of the rapid implementation of smart specialization into the framework
of European Union Cohesion Policy was that it left several practical issues unanswered. An …

Recent years have witnessed much experimentation with smart specialization strategies
(RIS3) and entrepreneurial discovery processes (EDPs) in European regions. The EDP can …