Mission-oriented innovation systems

By Marko P. Hekkert, Matthijs J. Janssen, J. Wesseling, Simona Negro. 2020

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Abstract Rather than merely supporting R&D and strengthening innovation systems, the focus of innovation policy is currently shifting towards addressing societal challenges by transforming socio-economic systems. A particular trend within the emerging era of transformative innovation policy is the pursuit of challenge-based innovation missions, such as achieving a 50 % circular economy by 2030. By formulating clear and ambitious societal goals, policy makers are aiming to steer the directionality and adoption of innovation. In the absence of suitable frameworks to understand and enhance the impact of missions, we introduce the notion of Mission-oriented Innovation Systems (MIS). MIS consists of networks of agents and sets of institutions that contribute to the development and diffusion of innovative solutions with the aim to define, pursue and complete a societal mission. We provide several promising research avenues, including how MIS come into existence, how they are governed and how the interactions taking place in a MIS may influence directionality and technological variety.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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2. Franz Tödtling
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1. Michaela Trippl
2. Franz Tödtling
3. Veronika Desch
4. Markus Grillitsch
5. Andrés Barge-Gil

Citations in the corpus

• New directions for RIS studies and policies in the face of grand societal challenges (2021, background): “Their motivations for getting involved can be very different (Hekkert et al., 2020), ranging from expected economic gains (firms) to willingness to solve own needs (users), civic engagement, and a normative stance regarding the challenge (NGOs).”