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Poland's innovation strategy: how smart is 'smart specialisation'?

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  • Miroslaw Miller
  • Tomasz Mroczkowski
  • Adrian Healy

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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.

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  • Miroslaw Miller & Tomasz Mroczkowski & Adrian Healy, 2014. "Poland's innovation strategy: how smart is 'smart specialisation'?," International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(3), pages 225-248.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijtisy:v:3:y:2014:i:3:p:225-248
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    1. Tomasz Mroczkowski & Miroslaw Miller, 2017. "Envisioning Smart Development in Poland from a Triple Helix Systems Perspective: a Critical Assessment of the Morawiecki Plan," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 8(2), pages 513-535, June.

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