La ‘Smart Specialization Strategy’ delle regioni italiane e le relazioni fra ambiti tecnologici

The Smart Specialization Strategy requires regions to identify links between technological domains within the same region (relatedness) and between different regions (connectivity). Besides providing a first analysis of technological domains of Italian regions, this paper shows that Italian regions generally neglected the analysis of relatedness and connectivity. We argue that this underestimation is due to the absence of a consolidated methodology to detect such links and to the lack of data and information to carry out this analysis.