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Internationalisation of the next Smart Specialisation Strategy
Opportunities and barriers in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region
Smart Specialisation Strategy is a place-based EU policy that seeks to enhance regional
competitiveness through leveraging and bolstering innovation in the selected priority
areas (industries or technologies) in each region. The new iteration of S3 requires
developing cross-border collaborations with regions possessing complex and complementary
technological expertise currently missing in a region to upgrade its technological
evolution. The reason for this is that new growth opportunities arise from recombining
existing technological capabilities while more complex technologies offer strong competitive
advantage. This paper presents a simple roadmap for regional S3 internationalisation
and the results of an in-depth case study on the opportunities for and barriers to
S3 internationalisation in Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), a region in the North East
of Italy. The paper develops recommendations on how to make the most of the Research,
Technology, Development and Innovation endowments in FVG through enhancing the innovation-internationalisation
nexus in order to improve competitiveness of the region.
Published on November 30, 2021
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