concepts is explored: multilevel governance, regional innovation policy, and Smart Specialization in various governance …

interaction among the institutions in charge of innovation, and therefore tends to create an overlapping of different spatial … levels in the determination and evolution of the institutional frameworks within which innovation policies are designed and … implemented. In this context, the region appears to be a privileged space for targeting innovation policies. However, while this …

, it is increasingly applied to regional innovation context [OECD 2013; Foray, David, Hall 2009; McCann, Ortega …-Argiles 2013; Camagni, Capello 2013]. Regions are recognized as a relevant level of innovation policies given the weight of … technology areas, should follow the rule: not to do everything in science, technology and innovation and to promote actions …

importance for the EU 2020 innovation strategy. New activities are to be nominated at the regional level that aim at exploring … specialisation is about defining a method to help policy-makers identify desirable areas for innovation policy intervention [Foray … regions: leaders and less developed regions in the field of innovation and R&D. The main objective of the paper is to assess …

conclusively their structural effects on regional innovation networks. Focusing on the French cluster policy during the period 2005 …-2010, this study aims at evaluating how cluster policies influence the structure of local innovation networks following network … topologies that may be beneficial for regional innovation. Based on a panel data of four periods and 94 NUTS3 French regions, we …