Innovation strategies for smart specialization have become the new
framework for organizing innovation support in European regions
and states. This article examines how policy-makers conceive
monitoring in the context of the current European territorial and
innovation policy. In this setting, monitoring activities have to
move beyond an audit-oriented logic in order to integrate a range
of strategic functions such as producing the information needed
to manage evidence-based policy decisions effectively and keep
stakeholders informed and engaged in the policy cycle. To analyse
this transition, we first conceptualize the logic of intervention of
smart specialization. In a second step, we present the findings
from a survey of policy-makers on their perceptions of this
intervention logic and monitoring. We find that strategy
monitoring is an exercise that must go beyond a narrow audit
focus. Regional policy-makers involve stakeholders to interpret
monitoring results for strategy revision and they adopt a priorityspecific
intervention logic, albeit with problems of implementing
this logic in practice.
KLEIBRINK Alexander;
GIANELLE Carlo;
DOUSSINEAU Mathieu;
2016-06-03
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS
JRC97693
0965-4313,
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2016.1181717,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC97693,
10.1080/09654313.2016.1181717,
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