Transformative innovation policy: Addressing variety in an emerging policy paradigm

Diercks, Gijs; Larsen, Henrik Fred; Steward, Fred

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.028

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“…This conceptualization will better align with the intentions of 100RC to drive institutional change in urban governance than traditional planning frameworks. By focusing on the activities (actions) of Resilient Melbourne, we develop a framework to understand the translation from strategy to practice as an expression of transformative innovation policy [14] to better understand the structures, drivers and mechanisms of urban resilience-building.…”

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Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?

2019

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More and more cities are developing strategies and implementing actions to increase their resilience to a diversity of environmental, social and economic challenges. International networks such as 100 Resilient Cities, established by the Rockefeller Foundation, are supporting cities to find and implement solutions to 'shocks and stresses.' This new approach to urban governance, often initiated by philanthropic organizations, is debated. On the one hand, these initiatives are celebrated as catalysts for transformational change through 'collaboration' and 'co-design' in contexts such as mobility, energy, green space or housing. On the other hand, urban resilience initiatives have been criticized for prioritizing private sector agendas and top-down approaches and hollowing out public sector tasks and democratic participation. However, little is known how urban resilience strategies are actually implemented in practice. Embedded action research on the implementation of the Resilient Melbourne strategy provides the opportunity to have a closer look at this highly contested topic. This paper provides first insights into the research project Urban Resilience in Action, using the Resilient Melbourne strategy to assess the implementation of selected actions. It shows that a reconceptualization and new analytical dimensions are needed to understand urban resilience as an urban innovation strategy.

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Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?

2019

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“…More recently, a wider literature stream emerged under the labels of 'innovation policy for grand challenges' (Ulnicane 2016;Frenken 2017;Edler and Boon 2018;Kuhlmann and Rip 2018), 'new mission-oriented policy' (Mazzucato 2017(Mazzucato , 2018a or 'transformative innovation policy' (Steward 2012;Diercks et al 2018;Schot and Steinmueller 2018). Despite some differences in emphasis and labelling we can identify a set of defining characteristics broadly shared between these approaches.…”

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“…Different societal problems may require different types of solutions, and consequently, different types of policies to address a societal challenge effectively. Both academics and policy makers have focused primarily on the range of technological solutions conceivable to solve a societal problem (Diercks et al 2018). In doing so, the framing and legitimacy of a societal challenge itself has been often taken for granted, just as the need for technological innovation.…”

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A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem-solution space

Wanzenböck¹,

Wesseling²,

Frenken³

et al. 2019

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We aim for a better conceptualization of Mission-oriented Innovation Policy (MIP). Our starting point is an analytical decomposition of societal problems and innovative solutions based on the degrees of wickedness regarding three aspects: i) contestation, ii) complexity and iii) uncertainty. We argue that both problems and solutions can be diverging (contested, complex, uncertain) or converging (uncontested, well-defined, informed). Based on the resulting problem-solution topology, we suggest a process-oriented view on MIP and discuss three alternative pathways along which convergence between problems and solutions can be achieved to transform wicked problems into legitimate solutions. We illustrate the pathways with the examples of smoking bans, CCTV and wind energy. For policy makers, locating a societal challenge in this problem-solution space, and implementing policy strategies accordingly, is expected to accelerate both the legitimacy of a mission and the resulting solutions.

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“…It is necessary to locate the Open Science and Open Innovation relationship within what is happening in society at a given time, to properly examine its generative and contradictory coupling. Our discussion takes place in a context of increasing institutional pressures for greater transparency and accountability of publicly funded scientific research programmes and calls for transformative innovation policy (Diercks et al, ; Schot and Steinmueller, ). Meanwhile, the rise of a populist post‐truth style opposed to objectivity, expertise, mediation and technocratic political solutions grants the demand for openness and participation a different complexion.…”

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Open Science and Open Innovation in a socio‐political context: knowledge production for societal impact in an age of post‐truth populism

Smart

Holmes

Lettice³

et al. 2019

R & D Management

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This conceptual paper traces the origins and progress of Open Science and proposes its generative coupling to Open Innovation in the contemporary socio-political context; where universities are re-imaging their civic missions in the face of anti-establishment populist politics. This setting is one of changing knowledge production regimes and institutional pressures that create contradictions identifiable through the prism of the series of scientific norms conceptualised by Robert K. Merton. This paper privileges a sociological perspective to proffer scientific knowledge production as a societally embedded process, which is well illustrated by scholarship in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Science in Society fields. In doing so, it identifies the co-evolution, co-existence and co-production of Open Science with Open Innovation; and notes how it shares the attributes of other recent diagnoses of changing knowledge production regimes; in particular Mode 2, postnormal science and the Quadruple Helix. It also argues that Open Science can be coupled with Open Innovation to catalyse positive societal change, but that the rise of a populist post-truth era opposed to objectivity, expertise and technocratic political solutions gives the demand for openness and participation a different complexion. Merton's norms provide a useful lens to observe recent shifts in the delivery of science, knowledge and innovation in society towards more inclusive, ethical and sustainable outcomes; and expose the limited reflection on how the appropriation and exploitation of open scientific knowledge encounters industrial R&D and Open Innovation.

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Transformative innovation policy: Addressing variety in an emerging policy paradigm

Cited by 257 publications

References 59 publications

Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?

Urban Resilience in Action: the Resilient Melbourne Strategy as Transformative Urban Innovation Policy?

A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy: Alternative pathways through the problem-solution space

Open Science and Open Innovation in a socio‐political context: knowledge production for societal impact in an age of post‐truth populism

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