Presentation at HSE Conference, Moscow, 1st April 2014

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Transforming Innovation:
Reshaping Innovation Policy.
Ian Miles
Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation
Higher School of Economics - National Research University
Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge
Higher School of Economics Moscow 2012
www.hse.ru

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Innovation is a social process with social
outcomes: innovation and social policies
intertwine
• Inputs to innovation
– Skills, attitudes, public demand and engagement, etc.
• Outcomes of (use of) innovations
– Environmental, Occupational, Social
• Methods of innovation
– Open, Social, User-driven innovation; (and innovation tools)
• Objectives of innovation
– Classic (competition, efficiency); new (green, inclusive;
user-focused)

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Innovation as Systemic
• From isolated heroes to innovation
ecosystems (=/= industrial ecosystems)
• From R&D policy to wider innovation policy
• Multiple players at multiple
stages in innovation processes:
- Creation and implementation
- Supply and demand across the
value chain
• Physical infrastructure
• Communications infrastructure
• Networking
• Alignment

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Challenges and Transformations
Grand
Challenges
(demographic,
environmental, etc.)
Innovation Processes
and Outcomes
(e.g. New forms of
manufacturing)
Solutions or
exacerbations
of challenge?
Changing
or sustaining
social and
economic practices
Innovation as part of the response to Grand Challenges – not a
magical solution. Social dimensions are critical.
Problems often reflect
current modes of use of
available technology
Addressing problems
through appropriate use
of innovations

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Transforming Industry
New
materials
and processes:
biomaterials
and biotech;
nanotech
Communications:
Sensors in
processes and
products; new
services
New
locations:
3D printing,
“factoryless”
manufacturing
Resource
efficiency,
energy use
New tools for
innovation –
simulation, design,
LLs,
crowdsourcing/etc
.
New organisations
for innovation –
business models,
PPPs,
crowdfunding, etc.
New skills for
innovation –
commercialisation,
cross-disciplinarity,
new techs., etc.
New orientations
for innovation –
customer- and
value chain-
focused, etc.

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Policy requires Knowledge
Demand and Modes of Use
Reinvention Changing Practices
Application Areas
Combinations of Knowledge Development and Diffusion
Innovations, Transformations
Combinations of Knowledge Rate of Development
KnowledgeofSocialand
EconomicDynamics
Evaluation,RiskAssessment
andManagement
Knowledge of Dynamics of Technological Change:
Innovation Ecosystems, Product Cycles, etc.
Roles for different innovation system actors, including Universities
Social Consequences

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What does this mean for Russia?
• Much restructuring of
innovation policy and
efforts at reform
• Many industries remain
stuck at internationally
low levels of innovation;
little “new
industrialisation”
• Part of global systems
• Scope for sharing
knowledge internationally
• Innovation policy must remain alert
to emerging trends in industrial
activity – not just to new
technologies
• Support innovative activities
(including demand, and service and
social innovation)and ecosystems
• Enhance public support for and
engagement with innovation
• Promote networking and exchange
among innovation system actors
(and with those elsewhere)
• Target and evaluate policies, while
recognising that outcomes are
often long-term.

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