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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 sociotec ...
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 e ...

Missions as boundary objects for transformative change

Understanding coordination across policy, research, and stakeholder communities

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 arg ...

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 ...
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 expl ...
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 ...
The view that the role of the state in the economy is constant over time clashes with reality. Usually, those who perceive the state’s economic role as static espouse a theoretical view that states should intervene as little as possible in markets, except to correct occasional “m ...
This article aims to analyze the recent experience of the Technology Directorate (DT) of the Carlos Chagas Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) and discuss the opportunities and challenges for the institution with regard to the development of an ...
This is the third of four policy papers of the project “Global Political and Economic Realignments: Implications for Brazil” by CEBRI, in partnership with KAS. Based on the reflections made in his previous Policy Paper “Geopolitics and Economics of Innovation”, Caetano Penna anal ...

The resurgence of industrial policies in the age of advanced manufacturing

An international comparison of industrial policy documents

This paper analyses recent industrial policy plans made by five leading countries: China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. This is done through the analysis of policy documents, using an original framework. Our analysis reveals that these policies have two main m ...
The techno-economic revolution brought about by the emergence and widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies is a reality at all levels of society: from individuals, through firms, to nation-states. Thus, the importance of technologies for the development ...

The Age of Missions

Addressing Societal Challenges Through Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) face the challenge of finding new growth engines that allow them to achieve and sustain high levels of economic and social development in the long term. Social development implies that the objective is not to grow for growths sak ...

Beyond market failures

The market creating and shaping roles of state investment banks

The paper develops a typological framework of the roles of state investment banks (SIBs) in the economy. The typology identifies four different roles: countercyclical; developmental; venture capitalist; and challenge-led. The paper conceptually elaborates the typology by first pr ...
The study “The Brazilian Innovation System: a proposal oriented by missions” (The Brazilian Innovation System: A Mission-Oriented Policy Proposal) offers subsidies to develop and monitor a strategic innovation policy, based on the strengths of the National Innovation System for o ...

Societal problems and industry reorientation

Elaborating the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model and a case study of car safety in the USA (1900-1995)

Addressing societal problems requires the reorientation of firms-in-industries, including changes in technology, belief systems, and mission. The paper aims to make two contributions to the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model, which captures the dynamics of socio-political mob ...

Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car industry (1979-2012)

An application and extension of the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) model

This paper uses the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle-model (DILC-model) to analyze the co-evolution of the climate change problem and strategic responses from the American car industry. The longitudinal and multi-dimensional analysis investigates the dynamics of the climate change probl ...

Multi-dimensional struggles in the greening of industry

A dialectic issue lifecycle model and case study

This paper aims to make two conceptual contributions to the greening of industry literature. Firstly, we propose that the greening process can be conceptualized as an issue lifecycle dynamics with multi-dimensional struggles between 'greening' pressures and industry response stra ...

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This Master Thesis research addresses strategies for deploying sustainable aircraft technologies, with the primary goal to accelerate sustainability transitions within the aviation industry. The focus of the research is on analysing hydrogen and ultra-efficient aircraft technolog ...

Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation

New Ideas for Investment-Led Growth

The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving “smart” innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary “mission-oriented” policies—from putting a man on the moon to tack ...