Smart specialization: enterprise search of regional development

2021/2022

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

4

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Public Administration (Faculty of Management (Nizhny Novgorod))

Course type:

Elective course

When:

4 year, 3 module

Instructor

Ivanova, Ekaterina

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course explores conceptual issues and practical challenges of regional development based on smart specialization. It discusses global benchmarks, highlights most recent policy initiatives with references to the key theoretical basics of smart specialization. The course prepares students for efficient STI management in both private and public sectors, and blends theory and practice by working on a wide range of cases. The combination of lectures and self-studies enable students to gain insight into smart specialization and entrepreneurial discovery process, understand problems and find policy solutions. Students are expected to present the results of their research projects at seminars with invited experts.

Learning Objectives

• - Forging the key generation of knowledgeable, pro-innovation managers in private and public sectors.
• - Creating informed judgment for policy decisions to foster an innovative regional economy oriented towards investment in high technology.
• - Setting standards for monitoring policies and their outcomes in support of innovation, science and technology.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Applies S3 approach to regional development
• Applies S3 methodology and toolkit to assess regional strategies.
• Describes EDP structure and provides cases
• Knows and presents cases of S3.
• Knows legal, institutional and organizational framework of S3
• Provides grounded judgment about sectorial dynamics of Russian regions.
• Provides grounded judgments about new position of regions in GVCs and KETs.
• Recognises key management principles to ensure S3.

Course Contents

• B(2)_1. Conceptual basis of smart specialization
• B(2)_2. New position of regions in global value chains (GVCs) and key enabling technologies (KETs): the role of smart specialization
• B(2)_3. Entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP): from regional priorities to S3
• B(2)_4. Governance structure for implementing S3
• B(2)_5. Operational principles of S3: methodology and toolkit to develop regional strategies
• B(2)_6. Transformation of regional economy: scrutinizing cases of S3
• B(2)_7. Sectorial dynamics of Russian regions
• B(2)_8. Revision of the course

Assessment Elements

• Домашнее задание (home task)
  PPT defence, up to 15 slides and 15 minutes. Topic – «Assessment of regional development strategies using smart specialization». The task is fulfilled in mini-groups.
• Домашнее задание (home task)
  PPT defence, up to 15 slides and 15 minutes. Topic – «Examples of the transformation of the sectorial structure of the region ». The task is fulfilled in mini-groups.
• Домашнее задание (home task)
  PPT defence, up to 15 slides and 15 minutes. Topic – «Finding a region’s niche in future technologies and markets». The task is fulfilled in mini-groups.
• Домашнее задание (home task)
  PPT defence, up to 15 slides and 15 minutes. Topic – «The cases of living labs». The task is fulfilled in mini-groups.
• Участие в дискуссии (discussion)
  Discussion: "Economic rationales of Entrepreneurial Discovery Process ". The task is fulfilled in a written form individually.
• Тест (test)
  Экзамен проводится на платформах Zoom (https://zoom.us), MS Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com). Ссылка будет отправлена преподавателем за три дня до экзамена.

Interim Assessment

• 2021/2022 3rd module
  0.25 * Тест (test) + 0.1 * Домашнее задание (home task) + 0.15 * Домашнее задание (home task) + 0.1 * Домашнее задание (home task) + 0.25 * Участие в дискуссии (discussion) + 0.15 * Домашнее задание (home task)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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• Crescenzi Riccardo and Percoco Marco Geography, Institutions, and Regional Economic Performance [Book]. - Berlin : Springer, 2013.
• Cuadrado-Roura, Juan & Parellada, Martí. (2002). Regional Convergence in the European Union: Facts, Prospects and Policies. 10.1007/978-3-662-04788-0.
• de Woot Philippe Rethinking the Enterprise : Competitiveness, Technology and Society [Book]. - Sheffield : Greenleaf Publishing, 2014.
• Dinc Mustafa Introduction to Regional Economic Development [Book]. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
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• Eric Schaeffer Industry X.0: Realizing Digital Value in Industrial Sectors, Kogan Page, 2017
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• Kumar, T.M.Vinod & Dahiya, Bharat. (2017). Smart Economy in Smart Cities. 10.1007/978-981-10-1610-3_1.
• Piperopoulos Panos G. Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Business Clusters [Book]. - Abingdon : Routledge, 2016.
• Pronestì, Giuseppe. (2018). Life Cycle of Clusters in Designing Smart Specialization Policies. 10.1007/978-3-030-03780-2
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