TY - JOUR

T1 - Innovation policy for system-wide transformation

T2 - The case of strategic innovation programmes (SIPs) in Sweden

AU - Grillitsch, Markus

AU - Hansen, Teis

AU - Coenen, Lars

AU - Miörner, Johan

AU - Moodysson, Jerker

PY - 2019/5

Y1 - 2019/5

N2 - The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to as system innovation policy. While insights from transition studies have provided novel and useful rationales for innovation policy targeting system-wide transformation, it remains unclear how to design, implement and evaluate such policies. The contribution of this paper is to translate and concretize the challenges of system innovation policy towards scope for policy action and analysis. Building on insights from transition studies we group the challenges into four domains: directionality, experimentation, demand articulation, and policy coordination and learning. We relate challenges within the four domains to three generic features of innovation systems: interests and capabilities of actors, networks, and institutions. The derived framework is applied in a case study on the strategic innovation programmes, a recent policy initiative by Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency, targeting system innovation.

AB - The orientation towards grand societal challenges can be seen as a new wave or paradigm for innovation policy. Such policy aims at system-wide transformation and is often referred to as system innovation policy. While insights from transition studies have provided novel and useful rationales for innovation policy targeting system-wide transformation, it remains unclear how to design, implement and evaluate such policies. The contribution of this paper is to translate and concretize the challenges of system innovation policy towards scope for policy action and analysis. Building on insights from transition studies we group the challenges into four domains: directionality, experimentation, demand articulation, and policy coordination and learning. We relate challenges within the four domains to three generic features of innovation systems: interests and capabilities of actors, networks, and institutions. The derived framework is applied in a case study on the strategic innovation programmes, a recent policy initiative by Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency, targeting system innovation.

KW - Innovation policy

KW - Innovation systems

KW - Structural change

KW - System innovation

KW - Transformation challenges

KW - Transitions

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054832425&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.004

DO - 10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.004

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85054832425

VL - 48

SP - 1048

EP - 1061

JO - Research Policy

JF - Research Policy

SN - 0048-7333

IS - 4

ER -