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 |
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| 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 |
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| Publication status | Published - 25 Apr 2019 |
Keywords
- extra-regional collaborations
- lagging regions
- Smart Specialisation
- RIS3
- patents
- Europe
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Checked for eligibility: 24/05/2019 This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society following peer review. The version of record Mariachiara Barzotto, Carlo Corradini, Felicia M Fai, Sandrine Labory, Philip R Tomlinson, Enhancing innovative capabilities in lagging regions: an extra-regional collaborative approach to RIS3, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, , rsz003, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz003