
Advances in the Theory and Practice of Smart Specialization
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Key Features
- Emphasizes specific contexts for smart specialization, its international approach and institutional preconditions
- Examines comparable initiatives worldwide
- Explains how to implement smart specialization policies given different development levels of regions and countries
Readership
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals worldwide working in economic development and growth, especially in regional contexts
Table of Contents
1. Assessing EU Smart Specialization Policy in a Comparative Perspective
2. The Economic Fundamentals of Smart Specialization Strategies
3. Managing Self-Discovery: Diagnostic Monitoring of a Portfolio of Projects and Programs
4. Smart Specialization as an Innovation-Driven Strategy for Economic Diversification: Examples From Scandinavian Regions
5. Smart Specialization Policy in an Economically Well-Developed, Multilevel Governance System
6. Innovation Policy in Southern Europe: Smart Specialization Versus Path Dependence
7. Smart Specialization in the US Context; Lessons From the Growth of the Albany, New York Nanotechnology Cluster
8. New Structural Economics and Industrial Policies for Catching-Up Economies
9. Smart Specialization With Short-Cycle Technologies and Implementation Strategies to Avoid Both Target and Design Failures
10. Lessons for a Policy Maker From Real-Life Self-Discovery in Economies With Weak Institutions
11. Transnationalizing Smart Specialization Strategy
12. Can Smart Specialization and Entrepreneurial Discovery be Organized by the Government? Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
13. From Strategy to Implementation: The Real Challenge for Smart Specialization Policy
14. Entrepreneurial Discovery as a Foresight for Smart Specialization; Trade-Offs of Inclusive and Evidence-Based Consensus
15. Advancing Theory and Practice of Smart Specialization: Key Messages
Product details
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: August 17, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128041376
- eBook ISBN: 9780128041598
About the Editors
Slavo Radosevic
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Adrian Curaj
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Radu Gheorghiu
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Liviu Andreescu
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Imogen Wade
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