Agricultural innovation systems has become a popular approach to understand and facilitate
agricultural innovation. However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of …

The transition to a low‐carbon economy will entail a large‐scale structural change. Some
industries will have to expand their relative economic weight, while other industries …

Rather than merely supporting R&D and strengthening innovation systems, the focus of
innovation policy is currently shifting towards addressing societal challenges by …

There is sufficient evidence, drawn from surveys of innovation in the public sector and
cognitive testing interviews with public sector managers, to develop a framework for …

The circular economy is argued to hold great promise for achieving sustainability. Yet, there
is a dearth of research about what a circular future may look like. To address this gap, this …

Missions may be regarded as a narrative for challenge-oriented policies, as a rationale for
directional policies, and as an instrument for coordinating distributed innovation efforts …

The topics addressed in this paper concern the (much-needed) transition to sustainability
and what role (innovation) policy can play in speeding up such changes. In their Discussion …

We aim for a better conceptualization of mission-oriented innovation policy (MIP). Our
starting point is an analytical decomposition of societal problems and innovative solutions …

Recent thinking about innovation and industrial policy emphasises purposeful related
diversification strategies or more transformative—but potentially riskier—challenge …

The transformative turn of innovation policy has resulted in calls for a more entrepreneurial
and directional role of the state. However, the multiple roles that the state might play remains …