Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: Systematic Review of Evaluated Programmes and Their Metrics

Authors

  • Bettina Fassbind Centre for Innovation Policy, Val de Travers Centre for Emerging Materials, Fleurier, Switzerland Author
  • Frohmut Bechtolsheim Department of Innovation Management, Rothaargebirge Institute of Advanced Technology, Winterberg, Germany Author
  • Ioan-Cris Jecu Department of Innovation Economics, Ceahlau Institute of Advanced Technology, Piatra Neamt, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22673898

Keywords:

Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider community can
now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for mission-oriented innovation policy, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye
on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves.
Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket
avoidance.

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