Smart specialization strategies are a new EU approach to cohesion policy, meant to deliver growth and development at EU national and regional level. Bearing in mind its focus on place-based development strategies, this paper intends to shed some light on its appropriateness to tackle uneven...

Smart specialization strategies are a new EU approach to cohesion policy, meant to deliver growth and development at EU national and regional level. Bearing in mind its focus on place-based development strategies, this paper intends to shed some light on its appropriateness to tackle uneven...

Proximity is a key concept in the explanation of traditional and emergent production systems. Recently, the role of geographical proximity has been qualified on the basis of the argument that other types of proximity should also be taken into account in the explanation of innovation and,...

V<sc>ale</sc> M. and C<sc>arvalho</sc> L. Knowledge networks and processes of anchoring in Portuguese biotechnology, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper focuses on the knowledge networks and processes of anchoring in Portuguese biotechnology firms. It argues that distant knowledge networks are absolutely necessary to...