Do EU regions benefit from Smart Specialisation principles?
研究将欧盟城市置于智能专业化空间中，追踪1980年以来的技术发展，发现复杂和相关技术增长最大的城市经济表现更优，为区域创新战略提供成本效益分析框架。
Smart Specialisation was conceived as a ‘bottom-up’ framework to identify new growth paths connected to knowledge cores within regions. Although operationalization of Smart Specialisation has proven difficult, recent mappings of technologies in terms of technological relatedness and complexity suggest a useful cost–benefit framework. We extend these ideas, locating European Union cities in a Smart Specialisation space and tracking their development of technology since 1980. Results indicate that European Union cities with the largest gains in complex and related technologies enjoy an economic performance premium over cities with smaller gains in the complexity and relatedness of their knowledge bases.