Smart Specialisation Strategies (RIS 3): literature review and bibliometric analysis

Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS 3) arises as a core innovation policy to be developed and implemented under the new EU Horizon 2020 framework. This document mainly reviews academic literature in order to reveal some key points about RIS 3, namely, its baseline, relationships with other economic and business areas, leading researchers, or simply, implementation and analysis instances. For the review, we have designed several specific queries to retrieve relevant and pertinent documents from Web of Science database. In addition, a browsing strategy was necessary to refine the different set of documents obtained. Also, diverse documents coming from grey literature, especially related to policy and decision making fields were included in the final set. Finally, several tables and figures based on the information compiled were elaborated with the aim of offering an overview and a clearer idea of the present situation on RIS 3.