IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipt/iptwpa/jrc106043.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Innovation and Regional Specialisation in Latin America

Author

Listed:

Abstract

The Smart Specialisation concept, currently implemented in the European Union, is being widely considered by several countries and regions of Latin-America. The interest towards this approach, highly based on the enhancement of regional innovation capacities, is motivating territorial dialogues, participatory processes and collective vision related to the innovation perspectives of Latin-American regions. This article highlights how policy makers of Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina are considering the smart specialisation concept as an inspirational driver of regional innovation and specialisation. Understanding the socio-economic and contextual differences between EU and Latin-America, this working paper does not seek to elaborate value judgements on the way in which smart specialisation is being (or should be) adapted beyond the EU. Instead, the analysis seeks to emphasise the common tendencies of the concept implementation as a way to frame cooperation between regions of the EU and Latin-America.

Suggested Citation

  • Belen Barroeta & Javier Gomez Prieto & Jonatan Paton & Manuel Palazuelos Martinez & Marcelino Cabrera Giraldez, 2017. "Innovation and Regional Specialisation in Latin America," JRC Research Reports JRC106043, Joint Research Centre.
    • Handle: RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc106043
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC106043
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. McCann, Philip & Ortega-Argilés, Raquel, 2016. "Smart Specialisation: Insights from the EU Experience and Implications for Other Economies," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 36, pages 279-293.
    2. Aroca, Patricio & Atienza, Miguel, 2016. "Spatial concentration in Latin America and the role of institutions," INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional, issue 36, pages 233-253.
    3. Fernando Jiménez & Ignacio Fernández de Lucio & Arturo Menéndez & Gustavo Crespi & Pablo D'Este & Juan J. Llisterri & Carlo Pietrobelli, 2011. "Los sistemas regionales de innovación en América Latina," IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank, number 45938 edited by Juan J. Llisterri & Carlo Pietrobelli, February.
    4. Philip McCann & Raquel Ortega-Argilés, 2011. "Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy," Working Papers 2011/14, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
    5. Javier Lopez Gonzalez & Przemyslaw Kowalski & Pascal Achard, 2015. "Trade, global value chains and wage-income inequality," OECD Trade Policy Papers 182, OECD Publishing.
    6. repec:idb:brikps:45938 is not listed on IDEAS
    7. Philip McCann & Raquel Ortega-Argilés, 2011. "Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy," Working Papers 2011/14, Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Juan Camilo Fernández-Marín & Nadja Simone Menezes Nery Oliveira & Paulo Mourao, 2022. "The role of policies in transforming regional fiscal structures: an exploratory analysis of spatial data from a policy of fiscal decentralization in Latin America," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 11(1), pages 1-24, December.
    2. Giedrė Dzemydaitė, 2021. "The Impact of Economic Specialization on Regional Economic Development in the European Union: Insights for Formation of Smart Specialization Strategy," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-15, May.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Edurne Magro Montero & Mari Jose Aranguren & Mikel Navarro, 2011. "Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Case of the Basque Country," Working Papers 2011R07, Orkestra - Basque Institute of Competitiveness.
    2. Ernest Miguélez & Rosina Moreno, 2013. "Do Labour Mobility and Technological Collaborations Foster Geographical Knowledge Diffusion? The Case of European Regions," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(2), pages 321-354, June.
    3. Elvira Uyarra & Jens Sörvik & Inger Midtkandal, 2014. "Inter-regional Collaboration in Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3). S3 Working Paper Series no 6/2014," JRC Research Reports JRC91963, Joint Research Centre.
    4. Kroll, Henning, 2016. "Understanding the "regional policy mix": A classification and analysis of European regions' support policies," Working Papers "Firms and Region" R1/2016, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI).
    5. Krzysztof Mieszkowski & Marcin Kardas, 2015. "Facilitating an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process for Smart Specialisation. The Case of Poland," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 6(2), pages 357-384, June.
    6. Roberto Capello, 2014. "Smart Specialisation Strategy and the New EU Cohesion Policy Reform: Introductory Remarks," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2014(1), pages 5-13.
    7. Roberta Capello & Camilla Lenzi, 2015. "Una valutazione della rilevanza e utilit? delle politiche di Ricerca e sviluppo tecnologico dell?Unione Europea," SCIENZE REGIONALI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(3 Suppl.), pages 13-36.
    8. M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández & Tomás M. Bañegil-Palacios & Ramón Sanguino-Galván, 2017. "Competitive Success in Responsible Regional Ecosystems: An Empirical Approach in Spain Focused on the Firms’ Relationship with Stakeholders," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-18, March.
    9. LSE Enterprise,, 2011. "Study on the impact of the single market on cohesion: implications for cohesion policy, growth and competitiveness," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 42840, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    10. Igor ROTARU, 2015. "Smart Specialisation In The Less Advanced Regions. What Are The Key Challenges?," EURINT, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 2, pages 319-327.
    11. Montresor, Sandro & Francesco, Quatraro, 2015. "Do Key Enabling Technologies shape regional Smart Specialization Strategies? A patent based analysis of European data," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201517, University of Turin.
    12. Max Nathan & Emma Vandore, 2013. "Here Be Startups: Exploring a young digital cluster in Inner East London," SERC Discussion Papers 0146, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    13. Rosina Moreno & Jordi Suriñach, 2014. "Innovation adoption and productivity growth: evidence for Europe," EKONOMIAZ. Revista vasca de Economía, Gobierno Vasco / Eusko Jaurlaritza / Basque Government, vol. 86(02), pages 62-87.
    14. Pasquale Del Vecchio & Gianluca Elia & Valentina Ndou & Giustina Secundo & Fabrizio Specchia, 2017. "Living Lab as an Approach to Activate Dynamic Innovation Ecosystems and Networks: An Empirical Study," International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(05), pages 1-18, October.
    15. Andrea Caragliu & Camilla Lenzi & Camilla Lenzi, 2013. "Smart upgrading innovation strategies in a traditional industry: Evidence from the wine production in the province of Arezzo," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 5(4), pages 435-452, November.
    16. Riccardo Crescenzi & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Michael Storper, 2012. "The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(5), pages 1055-1085, September.
    17. José María García Álvarez-Coque & Francisco Mas-Verdú & Norat Roig-Tierno, 2017. "Technological innovation versus non-technological innovation: different conditions in different regional contexts?," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 51(5), pages 1955-1967, September.
    18. Christopher Meyer & Christopher Meyer, 2020. "Reinforcing comparative monitoring of Smart Specialisation performance across European regions: transnational RIS3 observatory model as a tool for Smart Specialisation governance," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 8(2), pages 1386-1400, December.
    19. Paul Hildreth & David Bailey, 2014. "Place-based economic development strategy in England: Filling the missing space," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 29(4-5), pages 363-377, June.
    20. Laima Gerlitz & Christopher Meyer & Christopher Meyer & Gunnar Prause & Gunnar Prause, 2021. "Marketing and branding strategy for the South Baltic Sea Region: reinforcing regional innovation in SMEs through cross-border collaboration models in the age of transformation," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 8(4), pages 467-487, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Smart Specialisation; Regional Innovation; Cooperation; European Union; Latin America;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:ipt:iptwpa:jrc106043. 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.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with 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: Publication Officer (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipjrces.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.