Smart Specialisation at work: Analysis of the calls launched under ERDF Operational Programmes - S3 Working Paper Series No. 11/2017
The goal of the paper is to assess how and to what extent resources under Thematic Objective 1 (TO1) of national and regional Operational Programmes (OPs) for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) were allocated to operations falling within the innovation and research priorities set in the respective national and regional Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3s) during the first phase of the 2014-2020 programming period.
The analysis is based on information drawn from calls for proposals launched under 46 OPs in Italy, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia and published by 31 December 2016.
In particular, the study assesses the coherence of calls with S3 priorities; it also looks at the concentration of resources on priorities by calculating the share of funding made available to S3-related projects through calls. Moreover, the analysis explores the range of S3 priorities tackled by individual calls for projects, identifies the policy instruments utilised and the types of beneficiaries targeted by those instruments.
The examination reveals that the smart specialisation approach is being translated into practice and is playing a pivotal role in the implementation of ERDF-TO1 measures within national and regional OPs. In most of the examined calls, S3 alignment is a binding eligibility condition for funding. Nearly the total amount of the ERDF-TO1 resources made available through calls supports project proposals falling exclusively within S3 priority areas. Overall, this can be interpreted as positive evidence of improved prioritisation and more strategic spending patterns, yet results should be taken with caution given the relatively short time-span of the analysis.
GIANELLE Carlo;
GUZZO Fabrizio;
MIESZKOWSKI Krzysztof;
2017-08-23
European Commission
JRC106974
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC106974,
Additional supporting files
| File name | Description | File type | |
|---|
