Today, interesting and important interconnections have been made that promise great leaps forward for innovation … the twenty-first century, later to be followed by numerous Scandinavian policy experiments (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) as … well as austerity policy to enlarge regional governance spaces, as in Germany and France (not to mention the dismantling in …

, government and civil society together to identify new market opportunities and overcome the potential barriers to innovation …. While EDP forms the key principle behind the smart specialization policy of European Commission, its operationalization has … regions. Our aim is to identify the key underlying factors of EDP. Based on the semistructured interviews with 10 Finnish …