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Online platforms for smart specialisation strategies and smart growth (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Panori, A., Angelidou, M., Mora, L., Reid, A., & Sefertzi, E. (2018). Online platforms for smart specialisation strategies and smart growth. In Regions at a Turning Point: Post-Digital Communities, New Regionalism and Re-Nationalisation - Sustainable Development Implications (96-102)

This paper reports on the findings of the Online-S3 project, funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme (ISSI-4-2015), which tries to address the challenge of strengthening regional smart growth policies by developing an online platform for policy advic... Read More about Online platforms for smart specialisation strategies and smart growth.

Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research. In A. Bisello, D. Vettorato, P. Laconte, & S. Costa (Eds.), Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2017 (403-420). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75774-2

More than 20 years have now passed since the concept of smart city first appeared in a scholarly publica-tion, marking the beginning of a new era in urban innovation. Since then, the literature discussing this new concept and the ICT-oriented urban-i... Read More about Smart City Development Paths: Insights from the First Two Decades of Research.

Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2018). Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (176-185)

Smart Specialisation has generated a paradigmatic change in regional innovation policies and the European Union has shown a strong interest in supporting research that investigates the developments of this new science-related topic. This paper helps... Read More about Stylized Facts on Smart Specialisation Research.

The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2018). The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix. In M. Bozina Beros, N. Recker, & M. Kozina (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (94-103)

This article suggests the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process (EPD) that underlies Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) is not so much caught in the transition from the Triple to the Quadruple Helix, as rooted in a divisio... Read More about The Research and Innovation of Smart Specialisation Strategies: The Transition from the Triple to Quadruple Helix.

Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Deakin, M., Mora, L., & Reid, A. (2017). Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation. In P. Ketikidis, & A. Solomon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (529-539)

Smart specialisation can be considered an entrepreneurial discovery process which makes it possible to identify where regions can benefit from specialising in specific areas of science and technology. The European Commission suggests the development... Read More about Smart specialisation strategies in the post-linear era of research and innovation.

The smart region: governing the transition to intelligent small urban areas (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Mora, L., Branzanti, C., & Bolici, R. (2012). The smart region: governing the transition to intelligent small urban areas. In Smart, creative, sustainable, inclusive: territorial development strategies in the age of austerity

Cities and megacities are getting smart. This strategic transition might be considered as an effective tool to cope with a number of current issues such as the urban population growth, the rapid urbanisation and the social, economic and environmental... Read More about The smart region: governing the transition to intelligent small urban areas.