Skills for Smart Specialization: Relatedness, Complexity and Evaluation of Priorities

Duygu Buyukyazici

No 2218, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The present study provides a framework to empirically integrate regional workplace knowledge and skills with the smart specialization concept. It evaluates the smart specialization priorities of regions with respect to skill relatedness and skill complexity measures to analyze to what extent they build on the regional skill base. It shows that leading and lagging regions strongly di↵er in their strategies. Leading regions tend to prioritize domains in which they have some experience and related capabilities while lagging regions choose domains in which they do not possess experience and capabilities.

Keywords: skills; complexity; relatedness; smart specialization; diversification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O38 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09, Revised 2022-09
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