The Smart Specialisation Policy Experience: Perspective of National and Regional Authorities

This JRC publication presents the results of a 2020 survey to gain new insights into the Smart Specialisation (S3) policy experience across the EU. The survey aimed at gathering the views of S3 implementing authorities on their policy experience. The results provide evidence on the state of implementation, challenges, and critical aspects as well as some of the results achieved by this policy experiment in view of the new Cohesion Policy 2021-2027. The findings indicate that more efforts are needed in relation to the skills and resources to perform the policy functions of the S3 coordinating bodies (national/regional level).

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