(1) Background: Regional Innovation Strategies on Smart Specialisation (RIS3) receive
higher attention due to the start of the new European funding period 2021–2027. Compared …

Sustainable tourism is one of the key sectors in the South Baltic Sea Region (SBSR), which
belongs to the role model for sustainability—the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). In this context …

This paper considers the unfolding of Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) in one of
Europe's innovation-leading metropolitan regions: Stockholm, Sweden. Theoretically, it …

Smart Specialisation is fundamentally a bottom-up policymaking process premised on
entrepreneurial discovery and peer learning. Nonetheless, the European Union has relied …

Abstract The Global Innovation Clusters' Initiative (GIC) is an innovation program launched
in Canada. This article aims to describe the policy, in particular its key similarities and …

Smart Specialisation is a place-based approach to innovation policy that underpins a
significant amount of European Union funding. Following more than six years of …

Policymakers attempt to foster entrepreneurship within European regions yet firm
interrelationships across European regions remain understudied. This paper analyses the …

Despite the extent and importance of the Smart Specialization strategies, achieved in a short
cohesion policy period from 2014 to 2020, the evidence on the assessment of their actual …

Regional innovation policies are currently influenced by a series of territorial innovation
models, with the regional innovation system (RIS) approach being one of the prominent …

Since the late 1980s, there has been no explicit regional policy in Canada. Indirectly,
though, equalization payments, industrial policies, as well as regional agencies …