 Poland's innovation strategy: how smart is 'smart specialisation'?Miroslaw Miller, Tomasz Mroczkowski and Adrian Healy International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems, 2014, vol. 3, issue 3, 225-248 Abstract: Poland urgently needs to look to new sources of economic growth, particularly through strengthening of R%D in the economy. European investment funds will be critical for this, with a strong emphasis on the novel policy concept of smart specialisation. The paper assesses the opportunities and challenges of this approach, providing a diagnosis of the state of R%D%I system and the current state implementation of smart specialisation strategies (RIS3) in Poland. It finds that awareness of the RIS3 concept is still weak among Polish stakeholders at a regional level and that the involvement of enterprises, researchers and local governments in the process of 'entrepreneurial discovery' will be a key challenge for Poland, as will be the implementation of evaluation and monitoring systems. The article concludes with a discussion of the problems that need to be resolved to reap the full benefits of a smart specialisation approach and discusses some of its limitations. Keywords: Poland; European Union; new member states; research and development; R%D; innovation systems; economy competitiveness; economy development; smart specialisation; regional policy; globalisation; entrepreneurial discovery; entrepreneurship; innovation strategy. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijtisy:v:3:y:2014:i:3:p:225-248 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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