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The EU Smart Specialization in a Comparative Perspective
Slavo Radosevic (UCL)
XV Industrial Development and Policy (IDP) Lecture
Abstract:
The EU Smart Specialization is probably currently the biggest experiment in the world in innovation/industrial policy. The talk will position EU smart specialization within the context of the six other newly emerged approaches to industrial and innovation policy. They all share the idea that the ultimate constraints to growth are unknown, and all try to address the issues related to the specialization choices, as well as the challenges of technology upgrading and innovation-based growth. Within this context, EU smart specialization is defined as the EU’s version of a new industrial innovation policy. The talk will also summarizes key policy messages based on the comparative assessment of the EU smart specialization including lessons for non-EU economies.
Speaker biography:
Slavo Radosevic is Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies at the UCL where he has also been acting director of School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He had worked at University of Sussex SPRU as a researcher (1993-1999) and before that as a researcher in Croatia. His main research interests are in science, technology, industrial change, foreign direct investments and innovation policy in Europe, with particular reference to central and eastern Europe (CEE). He has published extensively in international journals in these areas and has edited several volumes on these issues. He favours empirically oriented and policy relevant research projects, based on neo- Schumpeterian economics. He acts as an expert for the EC, OECD, UNESCO, UNIDO, World Bank, UNECE and Asian Development Bank and several governments in CEE. He also had significant policy- making experience in Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia at the highest policy level. He is a special advisor to the EC DG Commissioner for Regional and Urban Policy. He is visiting professor at Higher School of Economics St Petersburg.
Organiser: Industrial Development and Policy Research Cluster
Speaker(s): Slavo Radosevic (UCL), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS)
Event Date: 22 November 2017
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
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Slavo Radosevic (UCL)
XV Industrial Development and Policy (IDP) Lecture
Abstract:
The EU Smart Specialization is probably currently the biggest experiment in the world in innovation/industrial policy. The talk will position EU smart specialization within the context of the six other newly emerged approaches to industrial and innovation policy. They all share the idea that the ultimate constraints to growth are unknown, and all try to address the issues related to the specialization choices, as well as the challenges of technology upgrading and innovation-based growth. Within this context, EU smart specialization is defined as the EU’s version of a new industrial innovation policy. The talk will also summarizes key policy messages based on the comparative assessment of the EU smart specialization including lessons for non-EU economies.
Speaker biography:
Slavo Radosevic is Professor of Industry and Innovation Studies at the UCL where he has also been acting director of School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He had worked at University of Sussex SPRU as a researcher (1993-1999) and before that as a researcher in Croatia. His main research interests are in science, technology, industrial change, foreign direct investments and innovation policy in Europe, with particular reference to central and eastern Europe (CEE). He has published extensively in international journals in these areas and has edited several volumes on these issues. He favours empirically oriented and policy relevant research projects, based on neo- Schumpeterian economics. He acts as an expert for the EC, OECD, UNESCO, UNIDO, World Bank, UNECE and Asian Development Bank and several governments in CEE. He also had significant policy- making experience in Croatia and ex-Yugoslavia at the highest policy level. He is a special advisor to the EC DG Commissioner for Regional and Urban Policy. He is visiting professor at Higher School of Economics St Petersburg.
Organiser: Industrial Development and Policy Research Cluster
Speaker(s): Slavo Radosevic (UCL), Antonio Andreoni (SOAS)
Event Date: 22 November 2017
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast