This ebook is the main result of the research activities coordinated by the Institute of Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the Metropolitan City of Bologna as part of the INTERREG Europe project ‘RELOS3 – From Regional to Local: Successful deployment of the Smart Specialisation Strategies’ (www.interregeurope.eu/relos3/).
INTERREG Europe is a European programme aimed at promoting the development and delivery of better public policies, based on the sharing of ideas and experiences among regional and local authorities across Europe, thereby improving strategies for their citizens and communities. Within this framework, RELOS3 is a 5-years interregional cooperation project launched in January
2017, addressing the topic of Research and Innovation, and more precisely the new European approach to regional innovation strategies: Smart Specialisation.
RELOS3 is a valuable example of transnational collaboration capitalising on interregional knowledge exchanges and learning among sub-regional and municipal authorities from 6 European countries:
• Sabadell Development Agency (Lead Partner), Spain;
• Metropolitan City of Bologna (local authority), Italy;
• Tartu Municipality (local authority), Estonia;
• Wielkopolska Region, (regional authority) Poland;
• Emmen municipality (local authority), Netherlands;
• Malta Enterprise Corporation (State agency), Malta.
The Institute of Management was in charge of supporting the Metropolitan City of Bologna in coordinating and developing some core research outputs during Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the project (January 2017-December 2021): Baseline Study, Good Practice analysis and cataloguing, Evaluation Survey, Final Study. Research was carried out with a qualitative approach mixing
different tools: desk research, case studies analysis for benchmarking and policy learning, on-line surveys, interviews and capacity building activities for policy makers and relevant local stakeholders.
The research team included: Nicola Bellini, Alessandra Borghini and Giulia Lazzeri from the Institute of Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; Marino Cavallo, Valeria Stacchini and Simone Ferraro from the Metropolitan City of Bologna.
You can download the free ebook from here
