Transformative Missions – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

Governing industrial transitions – Policy experiences from across Europe

8 November 2021

While much has been written on the rationales and need for transformative innovation policies, there are still few studies or initiatives that provide an understanding of what is needed on part of policy and public administration to become more ‘transformational’....

Promoting international learning and coordination for transformation: the JRC S4...

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8 November 2021

We are proposing a session that reports on two new flagship policy initiatives by international organisations – the OECD and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre – which are unique in sharing explicitly transformative framings and objectives. The OECD’s “S&T...

Assessing the transformative potential of mission-oriented innovation policies for meeting...

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8 November 2021

Many countries have set up ambitious GHG reduction targets, often with the long-term goal to become climate-neutral by 2050 or before, and some of them are implementing various types of mission-oriented innovation policies to contribute to meet these targets. The...

Citizen Participation with Mission-Oriented Innovation: Integrating Lessons from Different Settings

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8 November 2021

To tackle societal challenges, citizen participation provide a relatively new perspective for developing workable, accepted, scalable and shared solutions and implementations that are supported and used by and within society. Without citizens’ participation, complex system changes or behavioral changes will...

One Health and Sustainable Access to Antimicrobial Agents in Kenya:...

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8 November 2021

Shocking societal challenges such as COVID-19, antimicrobial resistance, and pollution are forcing Big Pharma to overwork to produce drugs to sustain the increased demand. Although this is for the good, current unsustainable systems are toothless against the disregard of the...

Opening up the novel research and innovation evaluation imperative, “Do...

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8 November 2021

As part of aligning with the European Green Deal, a new evaluation criterion has been selectively included in the European Innovation Council and Pillar II programming of Horizon Europe. The criterion of “do no significant harm” (DNSH) references six long-term...

Imagining societal challenges: from vision to action

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8 November 2021

To tackle grand societal challenges, the role of imaginaries can be crucial in the creation of societal awareness, understanding and support. That is, how we represent things, for example in the media, has great impact: evocative images and the recurrence...

Test session

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5 November 2021