C.C.R. Penna
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Journal article
(2025)
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Tom B.J. Coenen, Martijn Wiarda, Klaasjan Visscher, Caetano C.R. Penna, Leentje Volker
The recent mission-oriented discourse in innovation policy increasingly recognizes the need for participatory, anticipatory, reflexive, and tentative governance modes to address the wickedness associated with societal challenges. In this paper, we introduce the Mission-Oriented Transition Assessment (MOTA) approach as a novel way to collectively anticipate and reflect upon current and future mission-oriented transition dynamics, and we subsequently demonstrate this approach in the context of the Dutch mission ‘Circular infrastructure by 2050’. Using socio-technical scenarios, we apply MOTA to support stakeholders, particularly policymakers, in governing missions. Stakeholders reflect on their role in transitions to collectively find ways to overcome transition barriers and address tensions between the current and future socio-technical systems. Results indicate various ways in which MOTA contributes to stakeholders' awareness and preparedness, as well as the social robustness and alignment of action perspectives in the transition towards a circular infrastructure sector. As such, MOTA helps reveal valuable strategic and actionable insights to better understand and address societal challenges and mission barriers.
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The recent mission-oriented discourse in innovation policy increasingly recognizes the need for participatory, anticipatory, reflexive, and tentative governance modes to address the wickedness associated with societal challenges. In this paper, we introduce the Mission-Oriented Transition Assessment (MOTA) approach as a novel way to collectively anticipate and reflect upon current and future mission-oriented transition dynamics, and we subsequently demonstrate this approach in the context of the Dutch mission ‘Circular infrastructure by 2050’. Using socio-technical scenarios, we apply MOTA to support stakeholders, particularly policymakers, in governing missions. Stakeholders reflect on their role in transitions to collectively find ways to overcome transition barriers and address tensions between the current and future socio-technical systems. Results indicate various ways in which MOTA contributes to stakeholders' awareness and preparedness, as well as the social robustness and alignment of action perspectives in the transition towards a circular infrastructure sector. As such, MOTA helps reveal valuable strategic and actionable insights to better understand and address societal challenges and mission barriers.
Journal article
(2023)
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Laur Kanger, Peeter Tinits, Caetano C.R. Penna, Amaresh Kumar Tiwari, Kalmer Lauk, Anna-Kati Pahker, Kati Orru, Aro Velmet, Silver Sillak, Artjoms Šeļa, Olaf Mertelsmann, Erki Tammiksaar, Kristiina Vaik
In order to address global environmental challenges many currently dominant societal ideas, institutions and practices related to the natural environment, science, technology and innovation need to be fundamentally rethought. Drawing on the recent Deep Transitions framework, this paper focuses on whether such shifts in the fabric of industrial societies can be detected during the past 120 years. Combining the text mining of newspapers with data from existing databases, we present empirical evidence on nine pervasive and durable traits of industrial societies from five G20 countries. We detect a sea-change in environmental discourse from the 1960s and an institutional rupture from the 1980s, but only a minor shift in practices. In contrast, technoscientific institutions have changed far less, whereas techno-optimist discourse has resurged in recent decades. In addition to alleviating environmental problems, we suggest that more attention should be turned to rethinking many societally dominant assumptions about science and technology.
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In order to address global environmental challenges many currently dominant societal ideas, institutions and practices related to the natural environment, science, technology and innovation need to be fundamentally rethought. Drawing on the recent Deep Transitions framework, this paper focuses on whether such shifts in the fabric of industrial societies can be detected during the past 120 years. Combining the text mining of newspapers with data from existing databases, we present empirical evidence on nine pervasive and durable traits of industrial societies from five G20 countries. We detect a sea-change in environmental discourse from the 1960s and an institutional rupture from the 1980s, but only a minor shift in practices. In contrast, technoscientific institutions have changed far less, whereas techno-optimist discourse has resurged in recent decades. In addition to alleviating environmental problems, we suggest that more attention should be turned to rethinking many societally dominant assumptions about science and technology.
Missão Covid-19
Potenciais e limites para a construção de uma Política de Inovação Orientada a Missões
This article aims to analyze whether federal Science, Technology and Innovation
initiatives to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil have the potential to be structured as a Mission-Oriented Policies (MOP). A qualitative research was carried out divided into five stages. Despite having valuable assets, the weakening and lack of mobilization of different capacities has severely restricted the possibilities of building a POM anchored in the mapped C, T & I initiatives.
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This article aims to analyze whether federal Science, Technology and Innovation
initiatives to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil have the potential to be structured as a Mission-Oriented Policies (MOP). A qualitative research was carried out divided into five stages. Despite having valuable assets, the weakening and lack of mobilization of different capacities has severely restricted the possibilities of building a POM anchored in the mapped C, T & I initiatives.
Systemic capacities and capabilities for mission-oriented policies
The case of Brazil’s Inova programme
Closing the financial gap for promoting systemic socio-economic transformations to achieve sustainability requires both a substantial increase in investment levels and a qualitative change in investment strategies. In this Perspective, we elaborate on this claim and discuss why existing investment approaches that aim to make positive contributions to sustainability are unlikely to foster the systemic transformations needed for sustainability. Qualitative change means changing the current rules that guide investment practices and we outline a new set of rules that should guide transformative investment. These rules are based on the well-established socio-technical sustainability transition theory and the recent development of a theory of deep transitions. We explain why these transformative investment rules offer a promising alternative base for assessing investment opportunities and monitoring progress toward the multi-system changes required to achieve a socially just deep transition to sustainability.
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Closing the financial gap for promoting systemic socio-economic transformations to achieve sustainability requires both a substantial increase in investment levels and a qualitative change in investment strategies. In this Perspective, we elaborate on this claim and discuss why existing investment approaches that aim to make positive contributions to sustainability are unlikely to foster the systemic transformations needed for sustainability. Qualitative change means changing the current rules that guide investment practices and we outline a new set of rules that should guide transformative investment. These rules are based on the well-established socio-technical sustainability transition theory and the recent development of a theory of deep transitions. We explain why these transformative investment rules offer a promising alternative base for assessing investment opportunities and monitoring progress toward the multi-system changes required to achieve a socially just deep transition to sustainability.
Missions as boundary objects for transformative change
Understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities
Journal article
(2023)
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Matthijs J. Janssen, Joeri Wesseling, Jonas Torrens, K. Matthias Weber, C.C.R. Penna, Laurens Klerkx
Recent times have seen the rediscovery and adaptation of mission-oriented innovation policies (MIPs) for driving transformative change. While such policies seek to mobilise and align stakeholders, little is known about how missions feature in policy coordination processes. We argue that to facilitate the still troublesome operationalisation of MIPs, it is essential to understand missions as ‘boundary objects’ that have some shared meanings among the participants they convene, yet are open enough to be interpreted differently by distinct actors gathering in four interconnected policy arenas—i.e. a strategic, programmatic, implementation, and performance arena. By studying the European Commission’s Horizon Europe missions, we unravel how missions as boundary objects enable and disable the coordination of heterogeneous communities. The resulting analytical perspective highlights three key mechanisms for coordinating mission meanings across communities and arenas: convergence–divergence, passage, and reflexive learning. We conclude with research avenues for studying missions as boundary objects for facilitating concerted action.
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Recent times have seen the rediscovery and adaptation of mission-oriented innovation policies (MIPs) for driving transformative change. While such policies seek to mobilise and align stakeholders, little is known about how missions feature in policy coordination processes. We argue that to facilitate the still troublesome operationalisation of MIPs, it is essential to understand missions as ‘boundary objects’ that have some shared meanings among the participants they convene, yet are open enough to be interpreted differently by distinct actors gathering in four interconnected policy arenas—i.e. a strategic, programmatic, implementation, and performance arena. By studying the European Commission’s Horizon Europe missions, we unravel how missions as boundary objects enable and disable the coordination of heterogeneous communities. The resulting analytical perspective highlights three key mechanisms for coordinating mission meanings across communities and arenas: convergence–divergence, passage, and reflexive learning. We conclude with research avenues for studying missions as boundary objects for facilitating concerted action.
Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) contributes to the new challenge-led frame for science, technology and innovation policy, by emphasizing both the technological and the social aspect of transformative change. TIP presents five key features: (1) challenge-oriented, with explicit consideration for the direction of change embedded in innovations; (2) understanding of systemic innovation as a multi-level process; (3) participatory coordination and governance processes; (4) second-order learning (reflexivity) and experimentation; and (5) continuous monitoring and formative evaluation. An actionable framework has been developed to support and seize the transformative potential of projects, programs and organisations addressing societal challenges, which uses a set of twelve ‘transformative outcomes' (TOs) to implement and evaluate transformative change. One avenue for future development is the elaboration of the concept of transformative mission-oriented innovation policies, which would merge transformative innovation policy with the notion of innovation missions.
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Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) contributes to the new challenge-led frame for science, technology and innovation policy, by emphasizing both the technological and the social aspect of transformative change. TIP presents five key features: (1) challenge-oriented, with explicit consideration for the direction of change embedded in innovations; (2) understanding of systemic innovation as a multi-level process; (3) participatory coordination and governance processes; (4) second-order learning (reflexivity) and experimentation; and (5) continuous monitoring and formative evaluation. An actionable framework has been developed to support and seize the transformative potential of projects, programs and organisations addressing societal challenges, which uses a set of twelve ‘transformative outcomes' (TOs) to implement and evaluate transformative change. One avenue for future development is the elaboration of the concept of transformative mission-oriented innovation policies, which would merge transformative innovation policy with the notion of innovation missions.
In this paper, we propose a method for tracking the evolution of sociotechnical niches supported by sustainability-focused project portfolios. Based on social network analysis (SNA), this method can be used to evaluate and monitor funding initiatives that seek to advance sociotechnical transitions. It is an important area of study because there is currently a lack of tools for measuring the success of efforts to promote transformative innovation. Conceptually, our approach is based on existing sociotechnical transition research and offers insights into how project networks evolve. We applied this method to a specific portfolio of food system projects that the European Institute for Innovation and Technology Climate-KIC supported. Our results show that SNA can provide a proper visual representation of the infrastructure that supports programme-based investment and can help us understand how specific network structures can support niche development and protect it from external pressures.
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In this paper, we propose a method for tracking the evolution of sociotechnical niches supported by sustainability-focused project portfolios. Based on social network analysis (SNA), this method can be used to evaluate and monitor funding initiatives that seek to advance sociotechnical transitions. It is an important area of study because there is currently a lack of tools for measuring the success of efforts to promote transformative innovation. Conceptually, our approach is based on existing sociotechnical transition research and offers insights into how project networks evolve. We applied this method to a specific portfolio of food system projects that the European Institute for Innovation and Technology Climate-KIC supported. Our results show that SNA can provide a proper visual representation of the infrastructure that supports programme-based investment and can help us understand how specific network structures can support niche development and protect it from external pressures.