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Dr Felicia Fai

Associate Professor

Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS)

School of Management, University of Bath, UK

E mail: F.M.Fai@bath.ac.uk

My research interests include the organisational actors, industrial clusters, regional innovation systems and industrial strategy, predominantly through an evolutionary economics lens. For my research profile visit https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/felicia-fai/

2017 RSA Policy Expo Grant

Project:  “Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0: Upgrading Regional Capabilities for a Balanced Industrial Development and Growth Through Networks”

We examined how lagging European regions can benefit from ‘smart specialisation strategies’ (S3). These are EU Commission, place-based industrial strategies designed to support specific technology led ‘activities’ within regions with potential for innovation, knowledge spillovers, and commercial exploitation. It culminated in a book and several papers/book chapters:

  • Barzotto, M, Corradini, C, Fai, F, Labory, S & Tomlinson, PR 2020 Revitalising Lagging Regions: Smart Specialisation and Industry 4.0, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367422745
  • Barzotto, M, Corradini, C, Fai, F, Labory, S & Tomlinson, PR 2020, ‘Smart specialisation, Industry 4.0 and lagging regions: some directions for policy’, Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 318-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2020.1803124
  • Barzotto, M, Corradini, C, Fai, F, Labory, S & Tomlinson, PR 2019, ‘Enhancing Innovative Capabilities in Lagging Regions: An Extra-Regional Collaborative Approach to RIS3’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 213-232. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz003
  • Barzotto, M, Corradini, C, Fai, F, Labory, S & Tomlinson, PR 2023, External collaboration for innovation: firms, industry, regions, and policy. in P Bianchi, S Labory & P Tomlinson (eds), Handbook of Industrial Developmen Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, U. K., pp. 182-199. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379091.00020

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