Smart specialization and place leadership
Dreaming About Shared Visions, Falling Into Policy Traps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7366691 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markku Sotarauta (0000-0001-6603-6370, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 190-203 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies Regional Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2168-1376 • E-ISSN: 2168-1376 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21681376.2018.1480902 |
| OpenAlex | W2806848954 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 47 |
The concept of smart specialization has rapidly acquired a central position in European policy and academic circles. It raises interesting challenges for the regional studies agenda. First, smart specialization is about not only policy formulation, implementation and evaluation but also pooling scattered resources, competencies and powers to serve both shared and individual ambitions. Thus, policy formulation and implementation need to be seen in a new light. Second, when smart specialization is seen as one of the platforms for aligning several actors to boost regional economic development, the need to understand agency in its multiplicity emerges as central. This paper argues that to achieve truly transformative smart specialization strategies, there is a need to investigate in more depth the multi-actor strategy processes and new forms of leadership, as well as to invest time and money in advancing related capabilities across European regions
Agency (philosophy · Business · Political science · Pooling · Position (finance · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transformative learning · Vision · Computer Science · Polish socio-economic development · Regional Development and Policy · University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
Six critical questions about smart specialization
Contextualisation of salinisation and adaptation preferences in the coastal areas of Bangladesh
Redefining the entrepreneurial discovery process for smarter specialization in Europe
Discourse as a carrier of history
The Circular Economy and Smart Specialisation Strategies nexus
Weaving a foundational narrative – place-making and change in an old-industrial town in East Germany
Regional innovation policies and directionality
Universities developmental role in the EU second-tier periphery
The organizational adaptation of universities to smart specialization
Divergent multiple actor-driven path creation and spatial evolution of emerging digital economy industry in Guangzhou City, China
Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transformative Activities
Leader power of Islamic higher education institutions in improving the performance of human resources management
Failed futures? Unmaterialised visions and their ambivalence in regional development
Supporting transformation in Smart Specialisation Strategies
Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions
Smart Specialisation’ and European competitiveness
The role of proximity in stakeholder networks for Smart Specialisation
Explanatory models of regional innovation performance in Europe
Optimizing entrepreneurial development processes for smart specialization in the European Union
Unpacking smart specialization strategies
Imaginaries
Place-based industrial strategy and economic trajectory
Absorptive capacity, complexity and regional renewal
Leadership and governance challenges in delivering place-based transformation through Smart Specialisation
Retheorizing industrial–institutional coevolution
Varieties of periphery and local agency in regional development
Directionality and subsidiarity
System-level agency and its many shades
Patterns of policy learning in the RIS3 processes of less developed regions
Smart Specialisation Strategies and regional knowledge spaces
Do anchor infrastructures matter for regional Smart Specialisation Strategy? The case of Alentejo
Shaping opportunity spaces
Shaping smart specialization
Opportunities and challenges in implementing Smart Specialisation in Nordic ‘strong innovator’ regions
Evaluating the implementation of Smart Specialisation policy
An evolutionary approach to regional development traps in Europe
A tale of sky and desert
Untangling regional development traps through narratives
Regions in a time of pandemic
Setting the course for future diversification
Understanding the strategic ‘black hole’ in regional innovation coalitions
The role of leadership capabilities in Smart Specialisation Strategies
Mitigating human agency in regional development
Proposals for building an informational system to guide regional innovation policy
The role of university-industry research centers in embedding foreign subsidiaries
Collaborative Planning
Leadership Without Easy Answers
From theory to practice in smart specialization strategy
Agency, Entrepreneurs, and Institutional Change. The Role of Strategic Choice and Institutionalized Practices in Organizations
Efforts to Implement Smart Specialization in Practice—Leading Unlike Horses to the Water
What is evolutionary about ‘regional systems of innovation’? Implications for regional policy
The Promise of Enterpreneurship as a Field of Research
Nurturing novelty
Understanding regional innovation policy dynamics
Leadership for Sustainable Regional Development in Rural Areas
Leadership and the governance of rural communities
Leadership and place
Connecting place, policy and leadership
Leadership of ‘subregional’ places in the context of growth
Leadership of cluster policy
Place-renewing leadership
Knowledge, Networks and Space
Making sense of leadership in urban and regional development
The Accident of the Region
Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy
Place leadership and regional economic development
Making sense of variety in place leadership
Place leadership with Chinese characteristics? A case study of the Zaozhuang coal-mining region in transition
Beyond the Territorial Fix
Regional higher education institutions in regional leadership and development
Leadership and systems of governance
What Kind of Local and Regional Development and for Whom
Strategic agency and institutional change
Do Institutions Matter for Regional Development
Mobilizing leadership in cities and regions
A Framework for city leadership in multilevel governance settings
The Implementation of Public Policy
Rules of the Game
Overcoming path dependency
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |