Smart specialisation in regions with less-developed research and innovation systems: A changing role for universities?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10381046" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10381046 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417705137" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654417705137</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654417705137" target="_blank" >10.1177/2399654417705137</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Smart specialisation in regions with less-developed research and innovation systems: A changing role for universities?

Original language description

Universities and other knowledge institutions have quickly come to be seen as central to smart specialisation. However, their exact role in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation has yet to receive much critical attention in the academic literature. This is particularly notable as defining features of smart specialisation - such as the entrepreneurial dynamic of the strategy-formation process, and differentiated nature of the goals for strategies in regions with varying research and innovation capabilities - represent challenges to the notion that public research organisations should be drivers of smart specialisation in all regions. This paper articulates these conceptual tensions and then explores how they are unfolding in practice with particular reference to regions with less-developed research and innovation systems. The empirical material is drawn from a European-wide survey of institutional factors affecting the implementation of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation and two regional case studies from Central and Eastern Europe. Overall the paper reveals a multifaceted picture of still emerging (and potentially conflicting) dynamics around the introduction of smart specialisation that have the potential to reconfigure the role of universities in regional innovation systems in Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environment and Planning C-Politics and Space

ISSN

2399-6544

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

219-238

UT code for WoS article

000429797300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042566512