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Expert Group

The S3 Expert Group, composed by practitioners and academics from different parts of Europe, brings forward the conceptual development of S3.

About the Expert Group

The expert group takes stock of existing academic research and policy practices to bring the S3 concept forward.

The group identifies and discusses strategic issues and draws operational lessons from a policy perspective, with the aim to improve the design and implementation of S3.

Members of the Experts Group

Name Surname Country Occupation
Alexandre Almeida Portugal National Innovation Agency Portugal
Tatiana Fernandez Spain Generalitat de Catalunya
Dominique Foray Switzerland/France École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Simona Iammarino Italy/UK University of Cagliari
Tarmo Kalvet Estonia Tallinn University of Technology, TalTech; Institute of Baltic Studies
Agnieszka Olechnicka Poland Centre for European Regional and Local Studies University of Warsaw
Ruslan Stefanov Bulgaria Director, Economic Program at Center for the Study of Democracy
Ron Boschma Netherlands Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University
Kristiina Jokelainen Finland Founder at SmartNorth Ltd
Karolina Lipinska Poland Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Region in Poland
Antonio Novo Guerrero Spain President of the European Cluster Alliance
Jose Enrique Garcilazo Spain Deputy Head of Division and Head of Regional and Rural Policy Unit, OECD

Expert group meetings

S3 Cop Publications

Foray, D. (2023) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Tsipouri, L. (2023) - Policy Brief
Almeida, A. and Dr. Lipinska, K. (2023)