5th Project meeting (Steering Committee and Advisory Board meeting) was held on 16th November, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. The main objective of the meeting was to provide advice to EIZ for the post–SmartEIZ period. SmartEIZ will finish at the end of the year and during the meeting EIZ researchers tackled topics that have been…
The SmartEIZ round table named “New issues relevant for Smart Specialisation Strategy in European ‘periphery’ countries” was held in Dubrovnik on October 26, 2018 within the SINCERE Conference. In line with recommendations of the Steering Committee and the Advisory Board given during 4th meeting, focus of the SmrtEIZ round table was on the research that…
SmartEIZ Conference titled “Smart Specialization Strategies: Contemporary Challenges of its Design and Implementation” was held in Zagreb on 25th and 26th September, 2018. It was organized by The Institute of Economics, Zagreb SmartEIZ project team members. Over the past period, the Smart Specialization Strategy has become a binding strategic document for all EU member states on the basis of…
Dr George Tsekouras and Despina Kanellou from CENTRIM, University of Brighton delivered a workshop on using the power of learning networks to enhance smart specialisation strategies in Croatia on the 12th and 13th of April 2018 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb. This workshop is part of WP5 – Capacity Building Activities, Task 5.2 –…
Fourth Project meeting and Advisory Board meeting was held on March 23, 2018 at UNU MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands. The main objective of the fourth project meeting was to facilitate SmartEIZ project implementation in the remaining period. The project meeting participants reviewed SmartEIZ achievements so far and discussed about remaining deliverables and expected impacts with…
The ninth SmartEIZ Workshop named Global Value Chain in the context of Research Innovation Strategy and Global Industry 4.0 was held from 16th to 17th of April 2018 in Zagreb. The first day was dedicated to theoretical and policy context of Global Value Chain. The second day was focused on the policy context of implementation of…
The two days training workshop, held in Maastricht from 21 to 22 March 2018, covered a range of theoretical and empirical issues related to science-industry linkages. The first day was an academic day, first focusing on science-industry linkages research in general, followed by research focused on Croatia in particular, and ending with a panel discussion. The second…
The ‘Entrepreneurship and knowledge-based economy’ training workshop, held from 14th to 15th February 2018 at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, covered the state of the art research in the field, starting from an overview of the concept of knowledge-based economy, and the dynamics of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. It continued to the discussion of measurement issues,…
The Sixth SmartEIZ Training Workshop on evaluations of innovation policies was held from 21th to 22th November 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The first day of the workshop was followed by various policy makers from Croatia and led to interesting discussions with them about what can be learned from these evaluation studies. The…
The Fifth SmartEIZ Training Workshop on “Skills and technical change: policy issues” was held from 30th to 31th October 2017 at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb. The workshop lasted 2 days and saw the participation of nine presenters. During the two days, EIZ researchers and their colleagues had the opportunity to listen to and interact with…