Highlights The OPEN Evaluation 2016 conference is approaching and Danube-INCO.NET is organising, in its context, two events both taking place on 25th November 2016, in Vienna: Policy Roundtable: which role for science in smart specialisation? This roundtable will debate how sound scientific methods can be used for strategy design and the monitoring & evaluation (M&E) of innovation strategies. To discuss practices from different territories taking into account the politics of scientific advice. …Detalii