There is a need for concepts and methods to develop generic insights across cases in transitions studies and to analyse "transformational system failures" in policy. This paper identifies dimensions for a system level analysis and illustrates their application to compare cases and identify...

Die großen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen, die "Grand Challenges", fordern eine Missionsorientierte Innovationspolitik. Wir möchten hierzu einen konzeptionellen Beitrag leisten und zentrale Bausteine benennen.

The major problems facing society, the so-called »Grand Challenges«, call for mission-oriented innovation policy. We aim to make a conceptual contribution here and identify the main components.

Im Zuge der COVID19-Pandemie ist der Begriff der Resilienz zu einem zunehmend wichtigen Leitbild geworden. Stimmen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft fordern Strategien, um Krisen besser zu überstehen oder sie am besten gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of resilience has become an increasingly important guiding principle. Voices from politics, business and society are calling for strategies which help to better weather crises or ideally prevent them from occurring in the first place.

This paper examines the influence of the institutional setting on knowledge brokering work in legislatures. We argue that legislative brokers face three specific challenges: heightened legitimacy requirements for the brokered knowledge, the need to cater for a wide range of topics and different...

In this article we want to explore the role of the state to influence and support the demand for innovation in the context of transformation with a triple focus. First, we discuss the importance of demand for innovation and transformation. Second, we elaborate the conceptual underpinning of...

This paper contributes to our understanding of agenda shaping and decision making in science, technology and innovation policy and the role of political entrepreneurship in this process. It does so by looking at the emergence of a particular new STI policy area, security research, in the...

The overarching aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of how the main target variable of innovation policy - change in behaviour - can be better conceptualised and put into practice in evaluation and policy making. The paper first develops a theoretical framework of the...

This paper characterises and analyses evaluation practice in national innovation policy across Europe. It is the first study that examines and interprets the characteristics, quality, usefulness, and consequences of evaluations in a systematic way. The analysis is based on the comprehensive...