Mission-oriented innovation policy

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Mission-oriented innovation
policy
Tatiana Taigina

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Literature
• Chang, H. J. & Andreoni, A. (2020). Industrial policy in the 21st century.
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• Mazzucato. Mariana (2018) Mission-oriented innovation policies
challenges and opportunities, Industrial and
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• Robinson, D.K. and Mazzucato, M., (2019). The evolution of missionoriented policies: Exploring changing
market creating policies in the US and European space sector, Research
Policy, 48(4), 936-948.
• van der Loos, A, Frenken, K, Negro, S., & Hekkert, M. (2021). On the
Resiliency of Innovation Systems
In DRUID Conference 2021 (p. 1).

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Literature
https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12570
https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dty031
https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dty034
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.005
https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2020.1867518

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Innovation policy is the interface between
research and technological development policy
and industrial policy and aims to create a
conducive framework for bringing ideas to
market.

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Systems of innovation - the network of institutions in the public and private
sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify and diffuse
new technologies” (Freeman, 1994); the elements and relationships which
interact in the production, diffusion and use of new, and economically useful,
knowledge (Lundvall, 1992, p. 2).
National innovation systems are composed of different actors: government,
industry (firms), research institutes (public and private), foreign companies,
and universities (Lee and von Tunzelmann, 2005).

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societal challenges
innovation policy
to deliver better, not just more

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Mission-oriented policies - systemic public
policies that draw on frontier knowledge to
attain specific goals, or “big science deployed to
meet big problems” (Ergas, 1987)

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Contemporary missions aim to address broader
challenges that require long-term commitment
to the development of challenges that are as
much social as technological (Foray et al., 2012).

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Nelson’s work on The Moon and the
Ghetto asked the demanding
question of why innovation has
resulted in such difficult feats as
landing a man on the moon, and yet
continues to be so terribly
disorganized and technologically
unsavvy in dealing with the more
earthly problems of poverty,
illiteracy, and the emergence of
ghettos and slums.

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“The active role being taken by governments and transnational
organizations to develop strategies for a greener economy can
be seen through a mission-oriented lens—as can those being
developed to create more wellbeing for an ageing population,
and better jobs for modern youth”
(European Commission, 2011).

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Characteristics of contemporary missions
• Missions should be well defined
• A mission does not comprise a portfolio of projects
• Missions should result in investment across different sectors and
involve different types of actors
• Missions require joined up policy making

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Сriteria for setting missions
• Be bold, inspirational with wide societal relevance
• Set a clear direction that is targeted, measurable and time-bound
• Be ambitious but not unrealistic
• Be cross-disciplinary, cross-sectoral and cross-actor innovation
• Involve multiple, bottom-up solutions

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Missions do not fix existing markets but create
new markets.

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In mission-oriented innovation policy crucial
choices must be made on which organizations
to support

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Rationales for public agency intervention in
innovation processes and markets
1. Fixing market failures
2. Fixing (innovation) system failures
3. Fixing directional failures

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Types of change agents:
charismatic policy entrepreneurs triggering changes in public
organizations and policies, small peripheral and flexible agencies focusing
on experimentation and policy innovations (Breznitz and Ornston, 2013,
2016)
autonomous mission-oriented and merit-based agencies leading the way
to socio-technical breakthroughs (Bonvillian and Weiss, 2015).

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The United Nations have identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs).
193 countries have signed up to these goals, so they provide inspiration to
mission-oriented thinking.

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Mission-oriented policies criteria
Missions must be co-created
The mission should be framed as a positive statement.
Stress the possible
Granularity
Timescale
Overlap between grand challenges
Avoiding the “Christmas Tree” effect
Timebound missions and deadlines

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Mission-oriented innovation
policy
in Asia

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● attempts to introduce new missions and visions
● development of innovation bureaucracies by introducing more
dynamic change agents and policy instruments
● attempts to leverage the historical stateguided development
narratives
● visible engagement of business elites in high-level decision
bodies

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The developments of Taiwan
seem to be the most openended, as its policy and
governance reforms are the
most recent, and we can find
in parallel the rhetoric of
increasing top-down policy
prioritization and
legitimation and the creation
of more participatory spaces
in innovation policymaking
for rethinking the national
developmental mode

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“If Weber is right, imposing different policies on a
state apparatus without changing the structure of the
state will not work.
Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy, 1995

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CONCLUSION SUMMARY

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Mission-oriented policies:
translating grand challenges into doable
problems

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Literature
Soete, L., Arundel, A. (Eds.), 1993. An Integrated Approach to European
Innovation and Technology Diffusion Policy: A Maastricht Memorandum.
Commission of the European Communities, Luxembourg. Space-TEC
Partners, 2013. European Earth Observation and Copernicus Midstream
Market Study. Copernicus GIO LOT3. Space-TEC Partners, Brussels.
Mazzucato, M and Dibb, G. (2019). Missions: A beginner's guide. UCL
Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series (IIPP PB
09).
UCL Commission for Mission-Oriented Innovation and Industrial Strategy
(MOIIS) co-chaired by Mazzucato, M. and Willetts, D. (2019). A MissionOriented UK Industrial Strategy. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public
Purpose, Policy Report, (IIPP 2019-04).
Mazzucato, M. (2018) Missions: Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation in
the European Union. European Commission. Available online at
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/mazzucato_report_2018.pdf

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