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The aim of this study is to compare the European and Chinese approaches to regional innovation carrying out a comparative analysis at a general level and also analysing three best practices of regions/provinces in China and the EU. It seeks to explore ideas for future cooperation between the European Union and China on regional innovation systems.
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... change in regions is one of the key aims of a smart specialisation strategy. The transformative hope of smart specialisation, according to Foray (2015) (see Figure 1), lies in the potential of individualised, so-called entrepreneurial discovery processes to contribute to the rest of the regional economy with the help of knowledge spillovers. Entrepreneurial discovery is defined as a process in which entrepreneurial actors (both firms and non-firms actors, such as resear- ...