RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Developing Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy to Implement the Quintuple Helix A1 Bartolomé Sualdea, Ana María A1 Briz, Teresa A1 Urbano López de Meneses, Beatriz AB This study aims to analyse how regions benefit from developing urban agriculture into the research and innovation smart specialisation strategy (RIS3). To this end, the socio-economic structural variables employed by the EU to design regional RIS3s were analysed from a sample of 100 European regions. A binary logistic regression revealed that a population over the age of 65 is a key factor in developing urban agriculture, and an increase of 1% in this age group could lead to a 72.75% increase in urban agriculture. Then, an ANOVA showed that regions benefit from developing urban agriculture as part of the RIS3 in the promotion of active ageing and diversification, in alleviating the pressure of urbanisation on city resources, and in the development of technology, patents in mechanical engineering, creativity and new ideas, improving governance and increasing their social capital. Methodologically, socio-economic structural variables were reduced from 42 to 24 with shortest and simple instruments capturing the most important information, easier to manage and work with. It is concluded that lagging and leading regions benefit from the development of UA into RIS3. PB Wiley SN 0968-0802 YR 2025 FD 2025 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/84150 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/84150 LA spa NO Bartolome, A. M., T.Briz, and B.Urbano. 2026. “Developing Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy to Implement the Quintuple Helix.” Sustainable Development34, no. 2: 2615–2627. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70478 DS UVaDOC RD 24-abr-2026