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SMART SPECIALIZATION STRATEGIES AND EMPOWERING CITIZENS CCASP

CONCLUSIONS

As a consequence of the absence of a clear view on public allocations to prioritized areas prevents policy-
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makers to assess the relevance and effectiveness of their policies. A good step to take would be to
develop “Smart Specialisation-oriented” public budget calculations that would provide a picture of budgets
allocated to each prioritized areas by aggregating:

? Budgets allocated to dedicated bodies and programmes (institutes, centres, R&D programmes,

clusters…);

? Budgets allocated through preferential treatment in generic programmes;

? Ex post money received by prioritized areas in generic programmes.

At regional level, the debates for allocating the budgets should include not only budgets from regional

origin, but also national money flowing to the priority areas, and money of EU origin in the case of EU
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest the regions).
regions (often the Structural Funds are the main funding sources for innovation and economic policies in

To conclude, the results of the study strongly underline the need to include a governance "process
assessment" method into the toolbox that may underpin the design, deployment, follow-up and monitoring
of smart specialisation strategies. Therefore questionnaires and survey methods should be deployed and

the insights obtained with the governance template, will constitute a strong support to the further
development of a Smart Specialisation policy "design and process" framework.

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