A Territorial Taxonomy of Innovative Regions and the European Regional Policy Reform: Smart Innovation Policies

Titolo Rivista SCIENZE REGIONALI
Autori/Curatori Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi
Anno di pubblicazione 2014 Fascicolo 2014/1
Lingua Inglese Numero pagine 37 P. 69-105 Dimensione file 1157 KB
DOI 10.3280/SCRE2014-001005
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The current debate on a regional policy design to fit the Europe 2020 Agenda calls for additional reflection on how sectoral policies, like innovation policies, can be appropriately translated into a regional setting. The paper enters the debate on smart specialisation by claiming that innovation strategies call for the identification of common approaches for similar types of regions in order to prevent misallocation of public resources and unfeasible local strategies. For this purpose, a territorial taxonomy is suggested for the development of a regional innovation strategy, from which innovation policies for each regional mode of innovation are proposed.

Il dibattito attuale sul disegno della nuova politica regionale in grado di rispondere alle sfide dell’Europa 2020 richiede riflessioni aggiuntive su come politiche settoriali quali le politiche di innovazione possano essere tradotte in ambito regionale. Il lavoro entra nel dibattito della specializzazione intelligente e suggerisce che le strategie di innovazione richiedono l’identificazione di approcci comuni tra regioni simili, per evitare e prevenire allocazioni inefficienti di risorse pubbliche e strategie inutili per lo sviluppo locale. A questo scopo, il lavoro suggerisce una tassonomia per suddividere le regioni in base al loro modo di innovare; su ogni tipologia di regioni vengono suggerite politiche ad-hoc.

Keywords:Specializzazione intelligente, regioni innovative, politiche di innovazione intelligente.

Jel codes:R10, R58.ione JEL: R10; R58

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Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Camilla Lenzi, A Territorial Taxonomy of Innovative Regions and the European Regional Policy Reform: Smart Innovation Policies in "SCIENZE REGIONALI " 1/2014, pp 69-105, DOI: 10.3280/SCRE2014-001005