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 Mission-oriented innovation!


Is NOT business as usual

Governments in Europe and elsewhere have increasingly turned their attention to how to tackle ‘grand challenges' or ‘wicked issues' through science, technology and innovation (STI) policies

But this is not a simple pivot

Carrying out mission-oriented innovation cannot be business as usual

It requires the public sector to change its view of itself; to go beyond fixing the failures of the market to actively setting the direction for innovation and convening deep collaborations with all sectors to achieve the set goals

It requires new dynamic public sector capabilities; new and different forms of finance and instruments; new evaluation frameworks that differentiate between cost benefit analysis and a sense of shared purpose with civil society and citizens

Different types of missions can be implemented in very different ways, leading to an implementation taxonomy or the ‘how' of missions:

1. Top-down coordination
-> to better align existing policy mixes

2. Sectoral consensus building
-> as a way to recharge coordinated market economy type sectoral coordination mechanisms

3. Place-based approaches
-> on the city/regional level that deploy a more limited policy toolbox but seek to ‘democratise' innovation to wider co-creation processes and civic engagement

4. Design-led approaches
-> to reframe siloed policy goals through ‘user-centric' policy design processes that rely on deeper civic and stakeholder engagement

This casebook features examples from each of the above categories , illuminating the context to each of these missions, the approaches taken by the actors, the tools used, the challenges faced and the lessons learned

Make sure to check out this fascinating casebook UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and  here:

https://lnkd.in/d53uKwMp

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