ABSTRACT

Regional strategies, such as smart specialization strategies, can set the course for future diversification. Despite its importance, surprisingly little is known about how the underlying policy-making process affects the direction of regional strategies, i.e. the priority areas that regions aim to promote. As a consequence, the underlying reasons why certain regions have difficulties in developing adequate future-oriented strategies remain concealed. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework to unpack the policy-making process of regional strategy development and link it to the policy outcomes. The conceptual elaborations highlight that only by considering the features of this policy-making process, distributed across various actors with heterogenous interests and capabilities, can we explain why regions favour the promotion of certain types of path development over others.

摘要

区域战略，例如智能专业化战略，可以为未来的多元化奠定基础。尽管它很重要，但令人惊讶的是，人们对基本决策过程如何影响区域战略的方向（即区域旨在促进的优先领域）知之甚少。因此，某些地区难以制定适当的面向未来的战略的根本原因仍然被掩盖。本文的目的是提供一个框架来解析区域战略制定的政策制定过程并将其与政策结果联系起来。概念阐述强调，只有考虑到这一决策过程的特征，分布在具有不同利益和能力的各个参与者中，