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Monitoring innovation and territorial development in Europe: emergent strategic management.
- Source :
- European Planning Studies; Aug2016, Vol. 24 Issue 8, p1438-1458, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Innovation strategies for smart specialization have become the new framework for organizing innovation support in European regions and states. This article examines how policy-makers conceive monitoring in the context of the current European territorial and innovation policy. In this setting, monitoring activities have to move beyond an audit-oriented logic in order to integrate a range of strategic functions such as producing the information needed to manage evidence-based policy decisions effectively and keep stakeholders informed and engaged in the policy cycle. To analyse this transition, we first conceptualize the logic of intervention of smart specialization. In a second step, we present the findings from a survey of policy-makers on their perceptions of this intervention logic and monitoring. We find that strategy monitoring is an exercise that must go beyond a narrow audit focus. Regional policy-makers involve stakeholders to interpret monitoring results for strategy revision and they adopt a priority-specific intervention logic, albeit with problems of implementing this logic in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09654313
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Planning Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116123994
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2016.1181717