EPRC’s Rona Michie and Laura Polverari edited a special issue of EStIF, European Structural Funds and Investment Journal, on Smart Specialisation as a as a new and necessary dimension of ESIF programmes.
Originating from the 41st meeting of the IQ-Net Network, held in Athens in November 2016, the collection includes articles by Dimitrios Kyriakou and Mark Boden (S3 Platform, Seville), Georgios Peroulakis (DG Regio), Si lvano Bertini (Emilia Romagna), Karolina Lipińska and Monika Radziszewska (Pomorskie), Maud Pelletier (France), Nikos Vogiatzis, Jorge A. Sanchez and Vassilios Makios (Corallia, Greece) and Peter Wostner (Slovenia).
An article by Laura Polverari explores the way in which Smart Specialisation has been integrated in the ESIF Operational Programmes of the IQ-Net Network.
The introduction to the Special Issue by Rona Michie and Laura Polverari, and two sample articles from the Special Issue (those by Kyriakou and Wostner) can be accessed for free (open access) from this link.