This report was drafted by Philippe Larrue, Mission-oriented Innovation Policy and Science, Technology and Innovation Governance Team Lead; and Charles McIvor, Policy Analyst; with valuable support from Juanita Beltran Bayona and Fabian Johansen, both Junior Policy Analysts at the time of writing (all from the Science and Technology Policy Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation). This work was conducted under the aegis of the OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP).
The authors would like to thank the members of the Mission Policy Support Group who provided inputs throughout the project: Sidsel Hougaard (Innovation Fund Denmark, Denmark), Marc Antoine Lacroix (Secrétariat Général pour l’Investissement, France), Christian Naczinsky (Chair, Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research, Austria), Goran Marklund (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, Sweden), Amelia Olsen-Boyd (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) and Marnix Surgeon (DG Research and Innovation, European Commission). The MOIP Steering Group, which has supported the CSTP’s work on missions since 2019, was also instrumental in providing ideas and feedback.
This project benefited from the financial and technical support of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research, which hosted the “Mission Forward” conference in Vienna on 28-29 October 2024. The authors are particularly grateful to Christian Naczinsky for his numerous contributions and ideas, and for his warmful support since the beginning of the CSTP’s work on MOIPs. Bernhard Koch and Doris Schinkowitz also provided invaluable support to the organisation of the conference. The Austrian Mission Facility was also very helpful in organising and leading three workshops in the lead up to the conference.
The OECD Mission Action Lab also provided input to this work, via its Community of Practice webinars as well as directly through the contributions of its members, Piret Tonurist (Public Governance Directorate), David Johansson (formerly from the Public Governance Directorate), Benjamin Kumpf (Development Cooperation Directorate) and Mariana Mirabile (Environment Directorate).
The Center for Strategic Studies Management (Brazil), led by Caetano Penna, kindly performed the bibliometric analysis.
The authors are grateful to Kyriakos Vogiatzis for his secretarial assistance and to Sylvain Fraccola (both from the Science and Technology Policy Division of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation) for his communication and publication support. Special thanks are given to Jennifer Allain for her editorial contributions.
Last but not least, the 14 members of the Academic Board accompanied the project and provided essential input throughout the entire process. This publication owes a great deal to their ideas before, during and after the conference: Erik Arnold (Technopolis and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research), Patries Boekholt (Innovation Policy Matters), Susana Borrás (Copenhagen Business School), Lars Coenen (Mohn Centre for Innovation and Regional Development), Stephanie Daimer (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research), Amber Geurts (TNO Vector), Matthijs Janssen (Utrecht University and Dialogic), Rainer Kattel (University City London), Erkki Karo (Tallinn University of Technology), Ralf Lindner (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research), Michal Miedzinski (JRC Seville and University City London Institute for Sustainable Resources), Caetano C.R. Penna (Center for Strategic Studies Management, Brazil), Wolfgang Polt (formerly from Joanneum Research), Iris Wanzenböck (Utrecht University), Matthias Weber (Austrian Institute of Technology) and Emily Wise (Lund University).