ENEI 2030 – NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR SMART SPECIALIZATION

The National Research and Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialization (ENEI) was approved in June 2022, following the previous ENEI (2014).

ENEI holds strategic importance, serving as an aggregator for a national strategy for smart specialization and a way to promote innovation. It is also an enabling condition for European cohesion policy. Find out more about the strategy here: ENEI 2030 – National Research and Innovation Strategy for Intelligent Specialization 2030

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ANI leads the ENEI 2030 Executive Committee, which is responsible for ensuring effective coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the policy-mix defined in the strategy.
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INTELLIGENT SPECIALIZATION: WHAT IS IT?

Smart Specialization is an approach to innovation policies according to which territories, at different levels, are encouraged to concentrate investments in R&D and Innovation in priority areas that represent competitive advantages for those territories.

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Smart Specialization is an approach to innovation policies according to which territories, at different levels, are encouraged to concentrate investments in R&D and Innovation in priority areas that represent competitive advantages for those territories.

Implementing this approach involves putting in place a process of Entrepreneurial Discovery conducted, essentially,bottom upacademia, companies, local and national authorities, and civil society must cooperate in identifying and developing NEW promising areas for investment in R&D and other innovation activities, without prejudice to being able to benefit from other instruments that contribute to achieving the objectives set.

The main aim of this approach is to promote a structural change in the economies, favoring the areas where each one is strongest and has the most potential, and thus boosting economic growth and job creation.

Concentrating R&D investments and efforts in terms of innovation activities in a limited number of areas will be more effective than investments and efforts spread over several areas, and there may be a risk that, in a situation of dispersion, the impact in each area will be insignificant.

Smart Specialization is an approach initiated in 2014 under the 2014-2020 Partnership Agreement and updated under the new 2021-2027 Partnership Agreement.

This is a European approach that has been implemented in several countries. In Portugal, it has been developed at national level – the National Strategy for Intelligent Specialization – and at regional level – Regional Strategies for Intelligent Specialization.

Thus, in Portugal, Smart Specialization is approached at 2 different levels:

PRIORITY AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

The National Strategy for Intelligent Specialization integrates an approach to 6 thematic platforms:

  • Digital Transition
  • Green Transition
  • Materials, Systems and Production Technologies
  • Society, Creativity and Heritage
  • Health, Biotechnology and Food
  • Great Natural Assets
GOVERNING BODIES

The smart specialization paradigm requires effective coordination between different levels of action. It requires coordination between the national, regional and sectoral realities, as well as coordination between the political and technical dimensions.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM

In order to monitor and evaluate the extent to which the performance of the National Innovation System contributes to the achievement of ENEI 2030, a system based on 4 pillars was developed, which combines the use of quantitative and qualitative information.

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