Mission-Driven Innovation Policy

By Ville Valovirta, Robin Gustafsson, Kirsi Hyytinen, Janne Lehenkari, Kaisa Lähteenmäki-Smith, Jorge Martins, Robert van der Have

Mission-oriented innovation policy is an approach to direct and accelerate innovation activities towards solving grand challenges. As it involves coordination of activities between diverse sets of actors there is a need for new types of approaches to governance of missions. In designing missions, a broad mix of policy instruments is required. This policy brief discusses the rationale of mission-oriented innovation policy and proposes a set of recommendations for policy makers when designing these policies. The recommendations are derived from the IN2MISSION project funded by Business Finland.