Revista de Economie Mondială (Jan 2014)
Key Enabling Technologies, Technology Entrepreneurship and Smart Specialisation in Europe
Abstract
In this article we intend (1) to broadly introduce the smart specialisation policy within European context, which is strongly interrelated with the research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3), and to critically evaluate its relationship with KETs; (2) to shed light on the manner in which the theoretical framework of smart specialisation policy reconnects the notion of entrepreneurship – via technology entrepreneurship – with the global economy and sets it in the middle of an analysis of the structural changes the latter is facing; and (3) to evaluate to what extent RIS3’s approach to KETs allows a more refined use of the notion of “technological emergence”.
