Robinson, DKR;
Mazzucato, M;
(2019)
The evolution of mission-oriented policies: exploring changing market creating policies in the US and European space sector.
Research Policy
, 48
(4)
pp. 936-948.
10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.005.
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Abstract
Market creation is moving to the centre of mission-oriented innovation policy. This is particularly visible in the space sector. Agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are developing market-creating innovation policies in response to (a) the increasing emphasis on societal grand challenges, (b) the rise of a new wave of space companies (often referred to as “New Space”) and (c) the global trend towards interconnecting and interlinking of industries (a trend referred to as Industry 4.0). In this paper we explore the changing nature of mission-oriented innovation policies for market creation for two agencies, NASA and ESA. For these agencies, earlier mission-oriented policies focused on clear challenges with identifiable concrete problems and directed by a strong centralized agency. Contrast this with today, with broadly defined grand challenges, decentralized innovation systems with mixed top-down and bottom-up problem definition. We describe the current drivers and pressures that are creating a window for policy change, and we present examples of how NASA and ESA are responding to these pressures and use this exploration to dig deeper into the evolving frames of market-creating innovation policy in the space sector to identify the challenges for such policies and to further articulate a research agenda.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The evolution of mission-oriented policies: exploring changing market creating policies in the US and European space sector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.005 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.10.005 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Market creation, Mission-oriented innovation policy, Grand challenges, Industry 4.0, Directional failures |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Inst for Innovation and Public Purpose |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061517 |
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