Policy capacities for mission-oriented innovation policy: A case study of UKRI and the industrial strategy challenge fund

IF 12.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Technological Forecasting and Social Change Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI:10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124049

Julie McLaren, Rainer Kattel

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A new generation of transformative innovation policies, including a reimagined ‘mission’ approach, centre around tackling societal challenges. Their emphasis on directionality, coordination of different actors and policy mixes goes beyond standard science, technology, and innovation (STI), engaging wider policy and other domains. Whilst missions have become steadily popular and there is growing research on their design, there is much to understand about how such models are implemented in practice. A relative gap in the literature is how science, technology and innovation (STI) organisations develop the policy capacities and capabilities to deliver missions in context. This article provides a case study on how UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) fared whilst implementing the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). It finds that the policy capacities for missions were not fully present within UKRI and notes several tensions as the organisation worked to develop its capabilities for implementing missions. The paper makes recommendations for how funders can enhance those policy capacities and suggestions for how mission-oriented innovation policy analysis might be developed.

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任务导向创新政策的政策能力：以英国研究院和产业战略挑战基金为例

新一代的变革性创新政策，包括重新构想的“使命”方法，以应对社会挑战为中心。它们对方向性、不同行为体和政策组合的协调的强调超越了标准的科学、技术和创新（STI），涉及更广泛的政策和其他领域。虽然任务已经变得越来越受欢迎，对其设计的研究也越来越多，但关于如何在实践中实现这些模型，还有很多需要了解的地方。文献中的一个相对差距是科学、技术和创新（STI）组织如何发展政策能力和能力，以在特定背景下实现任务。本文提供了一个关于英国研究与创新（UKRI）如何在实施工业战略挑战基金（ISCF）时取得进展的案例研究。报告发现，特派团的政策能力在UKRI内部并不完全存在，并注意到该组织在努力发展其执行特派团的能力时出现了一些紧张局势。本文就资助者如何加强这些政策能力提出了建议，并就如何开展以使命为导向的创新政策分析提出了建议。

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