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Smart specialization in CEE: from challenges to opportunities

Explore the challenges and opportunities of Smart Specialization in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and its outcomes. Discover the areas of specialization in industries such as ICT, biotechnologies, e-health, nano-technologies, and knowledge-based construction. Find out how to turn ideas into actions through policy measures and regional cooperation.

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Smart specialization in CEE: from challenges to opportunities

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  1. Erkki Karo & Rainer Kattel Ragnar Nurkse School, TUT Smart specialization in CEE: from challenges to opportunities

  2. Challenges of SS in CEE • assessment of success/failure depends on one’s expectations • a regional policy approach turned into national innovation/industrial policy concept • contradictory even as a EU’s regional/cohesion policy approach: • SS as policy approach is needed in regions/countries without policy capacities • specialization and focus vs related variety

  3. Outcomes of the process in CEE • ongoing natural experiment • from smart to fast specialization • there are strategies and ideas, but limited experiences, measures and explicit approaches for implementation • SS overlooks existing policy capacities and routines and expects fundamentally different policy outcomes

  4. What do we specialize in? • Use of ICT in industry - data analysis and information management, embedded systems and robotics, and production automation and industry 4.0 • Biotechnologies in medicine and healthcare (red) - prognostics and diagnostics, treatment therapies using biotechnology, laboratory products and services, biobanking, and early phase medicine development and production • Biotechnologies in food production and other areas (green and white) - food that supports health, and systems technologies • E-health - remote management and remote diagnostics, decision support for clinicians and patients, and person-centered health information management. • Nano-technologies in new materials, surface coating technologies, and oil shale in the chemical industry • Knowledge-based construction - digitalisation of construction processes, automation of construction processes, renewable energetics in construction, and development of timber utilisation technologies

  5. Way forward? • How to turn ideas into actions?  policy measures to be designed for policy-makers by SS ‘task forces’ (groups of entrepreneurs, academics, policy-makers; entrepreneurs in the lead)? • Nordic innovation policy ilab for regional cooperation in SS and internationalization of innovation policy in general?

  6. Erkki Karo & Rainer Kattel Ragnar Nurkse School, TUT Smart specialization in CEE: from challenges to opportunities

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