Enhancing Innovative Capabilities in Lagging Regions: An Extra-Regional Collaborative Approach to RIS3

Mariachiara Barzotto; Carlo  Corradini; Felicia Fai; Sandrine  Labory; Philip R Tomlinson

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Enhancing Innovative Capabilities in Lagging Regions: An Extra-Regional Collaborative Approach to RIS3

Mariachiara Barzotto, Carlo Corradini, Felicia Fai, Sandrine Labory, Philip R Tomlinson

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Abstract

Smart Specialisation (S3) is a place-based industrial strategy that forms the major component of the European Union's 2020 Innovation policy (RIS3). Lagging regions, however, lack the technological capabilities and networks to fully participate and benefit from RIS3. Extra-regional collaboration offers lagging regions opportunities for technological upgrading to overcome this deficit. Using patent data for EU NUTS2 regions, we find extra-regional collaboration raises innovation in lagging regions, although collaborations based on technological relatedness might be less effective, compared with advanced regions. This has implications for the design of policies to engender extra-regional collaboration and their alignment with RIS3 initiatives.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213-232
Number of pages	20
Journal	Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Volume	12
Issue number	2
Early online date	25 Apr 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz003
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2019

Keywords

Europe
Extra-regional collaborations
Lagging regions
Patents
RIS3
Smart Specialisation

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Geography, Planning and Development
Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics

UN SDGs

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