IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/wfo/wstudy/69623.html
   My bibliography  Save this book

HESS – Higher Education for Smart Specialisation. Identification and Analysis of Dedicated ERDF Support in the Programming Period 2014-2020

Author

Listed:
  • Julia Bachtrögler-Unger
  • Elisabeth Arnold

    (WIFO)

  • Anna Burton

    (WIFO)

  • Peter Reschenhofer
  • Maria Riegler

    (WIFO)

  • Fabian Unterlass

    (WIFO)

Abstract

The development of a smart specialisation strategy has been introduced as an ex-ante conditionality for the allocation of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) dedicated to strengthening research, technological development, and innovation, in the programming period 2014-2020. In the period 2021-2027, an explicit emphasis is placed on developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition, entrepreneurship, and adaptability of enterprises to change. To support 2021-2027 programming, this analysis has explored ERDF projects relevant to Higher Education for Smart Specialisation (HESS) in the past. In particular, a keyword string search methodology was applied to the ERDF Beneficiaries 2014-2020 dataset created by WIFO on behalf of JRC to identify HESS-relevant projects. Based on the joint occurrence of pre-defined keywords concerning the smart specialisation process and human capital development, 45,057 ERDF projects were identified as relevant to HESS. In addition to the evaluation of keyword occurrence and combinations, detailed exploratory analyses concerning the projects' thematic intervention fields and the special role of Higher Education Institutions among beneficiaries were conducted to provide more information on the nature of HESS-relevant projects. Significant differences were identified between countries, also in terms of first, the number of HESS relevant projects, and second, the share of ERDF funding allocations towards HESS-relevant projects by country, taking values between 2.4 percent and 47.5 percent.

Suggested Citation

  • Julia Bachtrögler-Unger & Elisabeth Arnold & Anna Burton & Peter Reschenhofer & Maria Riegler & Fabian Unterlass, 2022. "HESS – Higher Education for Smart Specialisation. Identification and Analysis of Dedicated ERDF Support in the Programming Period 2014-2020," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 69623, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:69623
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.wifo.ac.at/wwa/pubid/69623
    File Function: abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wfo:wstudy:69623. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Florian Mayr (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/wifooat.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.