Increasing rise of military and non-military security issues, globally, influences innovation policies and interacts with policy aspirations to address societal challenges, notably around sustainability transitions. Drawing from research on security, geopolitics, and transformative and...

The imperatives of addressing grand societal challenges, such as fighting the causes for and implications of climate change, have driven a burgeoning scholarship on policy intervention to facilitate directional change in socio-technical systems. While the role of the state has come into focus -...

This discussion paper examines how Germany designs and implements its major federal science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies. Being a flagship policy since 2006, the High-Tech Strategy and its following successors have not only provided a framework for German STI policy but also...

Die Analyse bezieht sich auf die Umsetzung der Förderung der beiden Wasserstoff-Modellregionen in Baden-Württemberg im Rahmen der EFRE-Förderperiode 2021-2027. Ziel ist der Aufbau einer grünen Wasserstoffwirtschaft durch Investitionen in Infrastruktur, Forschung, gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz...

This article seeks to fill a critical gap in the context of mission oriented and transformative policies by conceptualising generic governance conditions for large public and private organisations to engage constructively with the transformation of wider socio-technological systems as an ongoing...

In times of multiple crises such as climate change or global pandemics, science, technology, and innovation (STI) are expected to contribute to solving these grand challenges of humankind. Regarding the related policies, we observably entered an era of strategy that started in the mid-2000s....

This paper analyses the factual effects of new public management governance on academics' job choice. Based on a large-scale choice experiment carried out with faculty from Germany's nine leading technical universities, we find that working environments characterised by levels of administrative...

In a dynamic geopolitical environment, policy makers need additional types of information when selecting technological domains for specific support. While all such selections eventually become political, they need to remain evidence-based to shield them against capture. This paper argues that...

How to estimate the economic returns of public science is a longstanding but equally challenging topic in quantitative science studies. In this paper, we exploit the staggered foundation of the SENAI Innovation Institutes (ISI) in Brazil since 2012, to estimate their effects on GDP using a...