Dominque Foray - Smart Specialisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation Policy

I commend Professor Dominique Foray for making this book available to the wide community of economic scholars and policy-makers, as it will surely foster the development of ever more refined policy ideas along the lines of Smart Specialisation.

Manuel Trajtenberg, Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics,
Tel Aviv University, Israel

This is the first book on a new policy approach that has been widely adopted in Europe and beyond. It analyses the concept of smart specialisation, discusses the need for smart specialisation strategies, explains why the approach is new and different from more standard policy processes and explores the conditions for successful implementation.

Smart Specialisation: Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Innovation Policy describes the origin of the concept, explains when a smart specialisation policy is necessary, provides a detailed analysis of the design principles of the policy and discusses the pertinence of this approach according to regional development levels. Finally the book takes into consideration the practical implementation phase of the process based on initial feedback acquired from regions engaged in the preparation of their smart specialisation strategy.

The book is original in that it provides the first full analysis of smart specialisation strategies both at theoretical and practical levels. It has been written at a critical period in the implementation of smart specialisation strategies in every region in Europe. The fact that the EU has adopted smart specialisation as a mandatory principle for every region and member state will make this book useful to policy makers, analysts and researchers.

Dominique Foray is Full Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

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Ron Martin, University of Cambridge, UK
Martin Perry, Massey University, New Zealand

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