Policy Innovation Journeys & Transformative Capacities: Insights From Future‐proofing Food Systems Across Europe

Petra Wagner, Kristiaan P.W. Kok

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Abstract

In light of tackling some of the worlds most pressing problems and fostering transformations towards sustainable and just societies, it is increasingly acknowledged that there is the need to develop transformative innovation policies. Thus, there is the need to better understand, and start experimenting with, novel ways of `making and doing´ innovation policies. In this paper we contribute to this debate by conceptualize such experimentation processes as innovation journeys, and we explore how innovation journeys can best be designed for policy practitioners. In particular, we zoom in on transformative capacity building along innovation journeys to enable policy practitioners to codesign with diverse stakeholders at the fuzzy front end of complex R&I policy design. Empirically, we explore the policy innovation journeys of 11 so called `Policy Labs´. These Policy Labs were established as part of the (Horizon 2020 funded) FIT4FOOD2030 project (2017‐2020) that aimed to contribute to food system transformation in the European Union. They were embedded in national ministries dealing with food systems research and innovation and brought together a wide variety of stakeholders from society, research and policy in efforts to develop novel policy instruments, strategies or practices. In our analysis, we aim to unravel some key insights from these Policy Lab journeys by exploring in more detail 1) the multi‐dimensional design of the Policy Lab process; and 2) how policy practitioners navigated these innovation journeys. In our discussion we elaborate on the role of context and contingency in shaping the innovation dynamics, as well as the role of learning and reflexivity in building more profound, i.e. transformative capacities at various levels of agency. By analyzing the innovation journeys of the FIT4FOOD2030 Policy Labs as processes of transformative capacity building, we hope to advance the debate on the challenges and opportunities of doing transformative innovation policy.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProceedings of EU-SPRI 2021
Seitenumfang24
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2021
VeranstaltungEU-SPRI 2021: Science and innovation - an uneasy relationship? Rethinking the roles and relations of STI policies -
Dauer: 9 Juni 202111 Juni 2021

Konferenz

KonferenzEU-SPRI 2021: Science and innovation - an uneasy relationship? Rethinking the roles and relations of STI policies
Zeitraum9/06/2111/06/21

Research Field

  • Innovation Policy and Transformation

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