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Bringing owls to Athens? The transformative potential of RIS3 for innovation policy in Germany's Federal States

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  • Henning Kroll
  • Immo Böke
  • Daniel Schiller
  • Thomas Stahlecker

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This paper reports on the impact of smart specialization policies in an economically already well-developed and politically experienced environment. Arguably, German regions were quite experienced with strategic innovation policy long before the ex-ante conditionality was imposed and their first reaction to it was accordingly reserved. Nonetheless, our case studies illustrate that the process related to the development of regional innovation strategies has in many German regions led to advances in methodology as well as improved communication and coordination in polities where information failures constitute a relevant challenge. Accordingly, a number of key challenges remain, in part related to many German regions’ understanding of their own mandate within the country's multi-level governance system.

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  • Henning Kroll & Immo Böke & Daniel Schiller & Thomas Stahlecker, 2016. "Bringing owls to Athens? The transformative potential of RIS3 for innovation policy in Germany's Federal States," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(8), pages 1459-1477, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:24:y:2016:i:8:p:1459-1477
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2016.1159666
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    4. Maximilian Benner, 2022. "An institutionalist perspective on smart specialization: Towards a political economy of regional innovation policy [Place-based Policy and Politics]," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(6), pages 878-889.
    5. Robert Hassink & Matthias Kiese, 2021. "Solving the restructuring problems of (former) old industrial regions with smart specialization? Conceptual thoughts and evidence from the Ruhr," Review of Regional Research: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, Springer;Gesellschaft für Regionalforschung (GfR), vol. 41(2), pages 131-155, October.
    6. Varga, Attila & Sebestyén, Tamás & Szabó, Norbert, 2021. "Az intelligens szakosodási politika gazdasági hatásainak modellezése [Economic impact assessment of smart specialization policy]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(9), pages 901-929.

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