Research
Supporting the evidence needs of industrial innovation policy
Research, conducted by the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (CSTI), explores what makes national innovation systems effective at translating new science and engineering ideas into novel technologies and emerging industries.
Areas of expertise
Research is designed to support the evidence needs of science, technology and innovation (STI) policymakers, in particular those officials in public research agencies who are responsible for programme design, portfolio management and strategy development.
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The public research base and the dynamics of innovationExploring the contribution of public research and higher education organisations to technological and industrial change, and economic development.Find out more at the IfM website
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Technological, manufacturing and industrial systemsCharacterising enabling technologies, production technologies and processes, value chain systems, and associated industrial innovation capabilities and competences.Find out more at the IfM website
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Science, technology and industrial emergenceTaking an innovation system functions-based approach to mapping emerging technology dynamics and practical foresight-related analyses for policy and research strategy development.Find out more at the IfM website
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Foresight, innovation and challenge-driven agendasInvestigating the practices, processes and techniques of foresight exercises and of (public) technology strategy development, both of which inform policy development and are themselves policy development tools.Find out more at the IfM website
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Innovation system institutions: Regulation and standardsExploring the role of evolving innovation system institutions (in particular standardisation and regulatory activities) on the emergence of new technologies and industries.Find out more at the IfM website
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Economic value capture from industrial innovation systemsAnalysing sources of national economic value capture from modern manufacturing systems in the context of technological and industrial change.Find out more at the IfM website
Who we work with
CSTI's research agenda is shaped in collaboration with policy and research agency partners.
Meet the team
Meet the researchers and specialists from the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy at the Institute for Manufacturing.
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