TY - JOUR TI - Functional procurement for innovation, welfare, and the environment AU - Edquist, Charles AU - Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel T2 - Science and Public Policy AB - Abstract Public procurement accounts for a very large share of most economies worldwide. This conceptual article argues that the key to achieving more innovations when pursuing public procurement is to describe problems to be solved or functions to be fulfilled (functional procurement) instead of describing the products to be bought (product procurement). Contracting authorities need to identify the problems that policy should address. The new products (innovations) solving the problems are to be designed by the potential innovators/suppliers, not by public procurers. Hence, the societal needs and problems must be translated and transformed into functional requirements. Functional procurement is allowed in European regulations, and therefore, there are no legal obstacles to use it for innovation policy purposes. Furthermore, it leads to increased competition not only among potential suppliers of similar products, but also among different products that solve the same problem. DA - 2021/04/24/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1093/scipol/scaa046 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 47 IS - 5 SP - 595 EP - 603 LA - en SN - 0302-3427, 1471-5430 UR - https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/47/5/595/6026548 Y2 - 2021/10/04/13:42:52 ER - TY - BOOK TI - Innovation Contested: The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries AU - Godin, Benoît AB - Innovation is everywhere. In the world of goods (technology), but also in the world of words: innovation is discussed in the scientific and technical literature, but also in the social sciences and humanities. Innovation is also a central idea in the popular imaginary, in the media and in public policy. Innovation has become the emblem of the modern society and a panacea for resolving many problems. Today, innovation is spontaneously understood as technological innovation because of its contribution to economic "progress". Yet for 2,500 years, innovation had nothing to do with economics in a positive sense. Innovation was pejorative and political. It was a contested idea in philosophy, religion, politics and social affairs. Innovation only got de-contested in the last century. This occurred gradually beginning after the French revolution. Innovation shifted from a vice to a virtue. Innovation became an instrument for achieving political and social goals. In this book, Benoît Godin lucidly examines the representations and meaning(s) of innovation over time, its diverse uses, and the contexts in which the concept emerged and changed. This history is organized around three periods or episteme: the prohibition episteme, the instrument episteme, and the value episteme. DA - 2015/01/09/ PY - 2015 DP - Google Books SP - 370 LA - en PB - Routledge SN - 978-1-317-92819-5 ST - Innovation Contested L2 - https://books.google.at/books?id=kIscBgAAQBAJ KW - Political Science / Public Policy / General KW - Political Science / General KW - Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects ER - TY - JOUR TI - Practical necessity and legal options for introducing energy regulatory sandboxes in Austria AU - Veseli, Argjenta AU - Moser, Simon AU - Kubeczko, Klaus AU - Madner, Verena AU - Wang, Anna AU - Wolfsgruber, Klaus T2 - Utilities Policy AB - As the legal framework is designed for an established energy regime, innovative solutions for the energy transition often encounter barriers. Since rapid changes in the legal framework may involve uncertainties, testing solutions in the exceptional framework of regulatory sandboxes can be a constructive instrument of innovation policy. Until June 2021, Austrian energy law contains neither an explicit authorisation to grant such exemptions nor custom-made regulatory sandboxes. This paper is the first to investigate the practical need for regulatory sandboxes in Austria (specific fields of experimentation were identified) and elaborate necessary changes for energy law eligibility, taking European law into account. DA - 2021/12/01/ PY - 2021 DO - 10.1016/j.jup.2021.101296 VL - 73 J2 - Utilities Policy LA - EN SN - 0957-1787 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178721001302 L1 - https://epub.jku.at/obvulioa/content/titleinfo/6898771/full.pdf L2 - files/23924/S0957178721001302.html KW - Innovation policy KW - Energy legislation KW - Regulatory sandbox ER - TY - JOUR TI - Three frames for innovation policy: R&D, systems of innovation and transformative change AU - Schot, Johan AU - Steinmueller, W. Edward T2 - Research Policy AB - Science, technology and innovation (STI) policy is shaped by persistent framings that arise from historical context. Two established frames are identified as co-existing and dominant in contemporary innovation policy discussions. The first frame is identified as beginning with a Post-World War II institutionalisation of government support for science and R&D with the presumption that this would contribute to growth and address market failure in private provision of new knowledge. The second frame emerged in the 1980s globalising world and its emphasis on competitiveness which is shaped by the national systems of innovation for knowledge creation and commercialisation. STI policy focuses on building links, clusters and networks, and on stimulating learning between elements in the systems, and enabling entrepreneurship. A third frame linked to contemporary social and environmental challenges such as the Sustainable Development Goals and calling for transformative change is identified and distinguished from the two earlier frames. Transformation refers to socio-technical system change as conceptualised in the sustainability transitions literature. The nature of this third framing is examined with the aim of identifying its key features and its potential for provoking a re-examination of the earlier two frames. One key feature is its focus on experimentation, and the argument that the Global South does not need to play catch-up to follow the transformation model of the Global North. It is argued that all three frames are relevant for policymaking, but exploring options for transformative innovation policy should be a priority. DA - 2018/11/01/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1016/j.respol.2018.08.011 DP - ScienceDirect VL - 47 IS - 9 SP - 1554 EP - 1567 J2 - Research Policy LA - en SN - 0048-7333 ST - Three frames for innovation policy UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733318301987 Y2 - 2021/11/03/18:48:22 L1 - files/23521/Schot_Steinmueller_2018_Three frames for innovation policy.pdf L1 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733318301987/pdfft?md5=f0245143d1f7b54a009825f24c56b709&pid=1-s2.0-S0048733318301987-main.pdf&isDTMRedir=Y KW - Transformation KW - Sustainable development goals KW - Innovation policy KW - National systems of innovation KW - R&D ER - TY - JOUR TI - Moving beyond the heuristic of creative destruction: Targeting exnovation with policy mixes for energy transitions AU - David, Martin T2 - Energy Research & Social Science DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DP - Google Scholar VL - 33 SP - 138 EP - 146 ST - Moving beyond the heuristic of creative destruction L1 - files/23551/David_2017_Moving beyond the heuristic of creative destruction.pdf L2 - files/23544/S221462961730302X.html KW - energy transition KW - exnovation ER - TY - RPRT TI - ERA-Themendossier: Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon 2020 AU - FFG AU - Rammel, Stephanie AU - Hoffmann, Andrea AU - Halnbayer, Brigitte DA - 2017/03// PY - 2017 PB - Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG) UR - https://www.ffg.at/sites/default/files/era_themendossier_ssh_2017.pdf L1 - files/26178/FFG et al_2017_ERA-Themendossier.pdf ER - TY - JOUR TI - Delivering a timely and Just Energy Transition: Which policy research priorities? AU - Pellegrini‐Masini, Giuseppe AU - Pirni, Alberto AU - Maran, Stefano AU - Klöckner, Christian A. T2 - Environmental Policy and Governance DA - 2020/11// PY - 2020 DO - 10.1002/eet.1892 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 30 IS - 6 SP - 293 EP - 305 J2 - Env Pol Gov LA - en SN - 1756-932X, 1756-9338 ST - Delivering a timely and