Michal Miedzinski

European Commission | ec · Joint Research Centre (JRC)

The policy brief discusses how a challenge-oriented approach to place-based innovation policies can bring added value to EU Cohesion Policy. In so doing, it looks at the potential implications of a challenge-led logic on three dimensions: the rationale of Cohesion Policy, its operational aspects as well as its challenges in terms of governance and...

In the context of governing innovation systems for low-carbon transitions, learning is paramount. In this article, we look specifically at the issue of learning through innovation policy review processes. We begin by reviewing the academic literature on innovation policy reviews as well as the emerging literature on transformative innovation policy...

Addressing complex challenges requires different tools, mindsets and approaches from those traditionally used, which contributed to create some of these challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, raising inequalities. Focusing on one is not sufficient and understanding their interlinkages and feedback effects is essential. Innovation p...

The report provides guidance on applying a mission-oriented approach to smart specialisation strategies (S3) to address societal challenges and achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Challenge-led missions are systemic frameworks that help align S3 with ambitious societal goals, and provide strategic direction to the implementation of po...

The nexus approach for sustainable management of natural resources combines environmental management and governance across sectors and scales. This approach, along with other integrative practices, has however seen limited uptake in practice despite its great promise. Drawing on the 'street-level bureaucracy concept', this article examines the role...

Europe’s transition to an energy system compatible with limiting global heating to 1.5 °C will require radical changes in energy systems. While this will create substantial new growth industries in clean technologies, some currently important economic activities will decline. The impacts of that transition will not be the same for all regions. We m...

This report introduces a tested reflection framework addressed to policy practitioners and experts working in regions and countries willing to strengthen the sustainability dimension of their smart specialisation strategies. The framework features reflection questions based on extensive theoretical research and tested in practice. The questions are...

Roadmaps and roadmapping techniques receive increasing attention in the Science, Technology and Innovation policy community, notably for the development of strategies and policies to address societal challenges and ambitious goals such as the SDGs. STI policy roadmaps are used to evoke future visions, align actor expectations and formulate, documen...

Europe’s transition to an energy system compatible with limiting global heating to 1.5°C will require radical changes in energy systems. While this will create substantial new growth industries in clean technologies, some currently important economic activities will decline. The impacts of that transition will not be the same for all regions. We m...

The Eco-Innovation Observatory functions as a platform for the structured collection and analysis of an extensive range of eco-innovation and circular economy information, gathered from across the European Union and key economic regions around the globe, providing a much-needed integrated information source on eco-innovation for companies and innov...

This report is available for download from https://ec.europa.eu/environment/ecoap/about-eco-innovation/policies-matters

This background paper supports the United Nations (UN) Technology Facilitation Mechanism (TFM) and in particular, the UN IATT Guidebook on STI for SDGs Roadmaps (IATT 2020). The paper overviews an increasingly complex landscape of international collaboration to harness STI to accelerate achievement of the SDGs and mitigate associated risks.

The Maastricht Manual on Measuring Eco-innovation offers guidance on the measurement of eco-innovation in order to provide high quality data for research and policies to support the green economy. The Maastricht Manual has been designed for researchers, policy makers and statisticians from National Statistical Offices (NSOs) and other organisation...

This paper published at Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, written by experts of eco-innovation, offers guidance on the measurement of eco-innovation for a green economy. This is done through definitions, an explanation of important issues for understanding, a dis- cussion of the various ways in which eco-innovation (in its different forms) can be meas...

The questions the inno4sd STI Policy Roadmaps for the SDGs guidelines respond to include: What is roadmapping, and what are key design features of roadmaps? How to adjust roadmapping techniques to apply it to design and implementation of STI policies? How to design and implement STI for the SDGs policy roadmaps? These guidelines address this gap...

Governments and international organisations have recognised the potential of science, technology and innovation (STI) to enable and accelerate the transition towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need to re-align and streamline public policies and investments to harness the benefits of STI for the SDGs more effectively. This...

Faced with major global problems, public policies increasingly embrace narratives of systemic transition towards desired future. This article introduces a conceptual and analytical framework designed to reconstruct and analyse historical and prospective policy discourses on emerging societal challenges. The proposed Policy Narrative Framework Analy...

There has been a growing interest in roadmaps and roadmapping techniques in the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy community. Although interest in the application of roadmapping to policy processes is rising, there is little research literature in this area, especially in the context of supporting innovation for sustainability transiti...

This chapter addresses the resource nexus, a concept that has recently become quite popular. It is often framed as a water-energy-food nexus and discussed at international organisations, within infrastructure planning units and among actors on the ground concerned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The chapter seek...

This research examined how public policy addresses long-term societal challenges. The case study focused on policy narratives and frames of resource efficiency in the ‘Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe’ of the European Commission (EC). The study followed an interpretive constructionist perspective on public policy and assumed a research strate...

The Vanguard Initiative partners are committed to the creation of a platform which gives an impetus to the advanced manufacturing ‘community’ to generate bottom-up ideas, support synergies and alignment at inter-regional level and create a ‘new space’ for industry engagement. It will build on and go beyond existing efforts to support this ambition...

Eco-innovation and competitiveness Enabling the transition to a resource-efficient circular economy: annual report 2013 Eco-Innovation will fuel the transition to a circular economy. This report presents evidence of changes already happening across the EU and highlights some of the key barriers and future challenges toward mainstreaming a circular...

The guide provides an original framework and methodological advice on how to identify, scope and assess the environmental pressures and impacts of research and innovation policy. The central assumption in the overall framework is that any integrated assessment seeking to identify and measure environmental impacts of R&I need to be based on a robust...

This report presents the results of a ‘horizon scan’ of trends that may affect European economies and society in the coming decade. Horizon Scanning (HS) is a structured activity aimed at monitoring, analysing and positioning ‘frontier issues’ that are relevant for policy, research and strategic agendas. The types of issues mapped by a HS include c...

This guide is a practical and comprehensive introduction to eco-innovation addressed primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The booklet overviews emerging business opportunities eco-innovation has to offer to companies that reconsider business models, develop new products, technologies or services, or improve production processes....

In this report the Eco-Innovation Observatory has looked at how eco-innovation can lead to and create pervasive change. It argues that if eco-innovation is based on partnerships of different stakeholders working together, it can play a crucial role in the transition to a green and competitive economy. Eco-innovation can take the form of improved pr...

This practical guide demonstrates that sustainable and smart growth can go hand-in-hand in all European regions and Member States. It is becoming increasingly clear that sustainable economic growth can only be ensured if regions and Member States are prepared to follow the principles of environmental sustainability. This guide aims to provide answe...

This report provides the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MKM) of the Republic of Estonia with an overall conceptual framework for the evaluation of the national innovation and enterprise strategies and related policy measures (programmes, major projects, etc.).

The booklet provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of previously unpublished regional-level data on the contribution of the EU SFs, in particular the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF), to RTDI spending in EU regions in the 2000-2006 and 2007-2013 programming pe-riods. The issue of synergies between...

Structural change and globalisation are major factors influencing the competitiveness of regional economies. During the period 2000-2006, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) intervened in favour of European Union (EU) regions that were faced by a variety of structural challenges (declining industrial areas, rural economies, fishing depend...

This report is the result of two years of analysis and debate within the wider framework of the Europe INNOVA Sectoral Innovation Watch project. It sets out a conceptual framework for further analysis and policy development on eco-innovation; it brings together the available evidence on eco-innovation in a coherent framework; and it proposes a set...

This is the final report of a study for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional Policy (DG REGIO) on European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) co-funded innovative projects implemented during the 2000-2006 programming period. The study had three overall objectives: • to analyse and present different innovative projects financed b...

The study analyses the coordination and synergy effects between three major EU instruments: the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP); and the Structural Funds (SF). The most important potential synergies appear between SF and FP7 and SF and CIP, the main opportunities being based on the thematic...