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SMART SPECIALISATION – STRATEGIC CONCEPT FOR CATALYSING INNOVATION AND RESILIENT GROWTH

Smart specialisation is a unique strategic concept of the European Union for the purpose of facilitating innovation and competitiveness, with foundations that are unlike other innovation strategies. Smart specialisation has no universal recipe, but it is rather highly adaptable and volatile, which enables it to highly adapt to the specific needs of every nation and region. It also promotes territorial prioritisation and development, which is in the focus of the European Union for the future programming period 2021-2027. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview into the European Union framework for fostering innovation performance, as well as insights and deeper understanding of the foundations, methodology, characteristics and purpose of smart specialisation. This paper also aims to compare selected European Union Member states in order to show practical examples of the implementation of smart specialisation strategies - Austria, Croatia, Netherlands and Slovenia. The effectiveness of smart specialisation is shown in the fact that countries outside European Union have been embracing and implementing the smart specialisation concept.

smart specialisation, territorial strategies, innovation, competitiveness, EU

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