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The evolving role of public innovation agencies in tackling grand challenges
06 June 2023, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm
Join this talk with global experts sharing how today's public innovation organisations are implementing ambitious policy agendas to shape markets.
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Tuesday 6 June 2023 | 14:30-16:00 (BST) UK Time
What is the role of public innovation agencies when faced with humanity’s grand challenges, and how are they evolving to address them?
Our afternoon plenary session will focus on emerging practices and ways of working in public organisations to implement innovations and ambitious policy agendas to shape markets.
It will take stock of how the very idea of an innovation agency is expanding from innovation policy organisations to innovations labs and digital teams, focussing on their evolving institutional design, analytical frameworks, policy analytical methods, tools and scope of work and how that might evolve to take a more market shaping approach.
Meet the panel:
This talk is being moderated by Prof Rainer Kattel, Professor of Innovation and Public Governance, in conversation with:
- Dr Susan Monarez, Deputy director, ARPA-H
- Dr Christian Bason, CEO, Danish Design Center
- Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor of the a2i Program of the ICT Division and the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh supported by the UNDP
- Dr Alex Cooke, Director of Strategic Delivery and General Manager for the Missions Program within CSIRO
The event is part of the IIPP 2023 Festival: The Entrepreneurial State 2.0. - Rethinking the State in the 21st Century.
Join the conversation on #IIPP_MOIN and #TheEntreprenurialState2.
About the Speakers
Prof Rainer Kattel
Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
He led Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance for 10 years, building it into one of the leading innovation and governance schools in the region.
Professor Kattel has also served on various public policy commissions, including the Estonian Research Council and European Science Foundation. He has worked as an expert for the OECD, UNDP and the European Commission, and served as a member of E-Estonia Council advising the Prime Minister of Estonia. Currently, he leads the Estonian Government’s Gender Equality Council.
He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy. More about Prof Rainer Kattel
Dr Susan Monarez
Deputy director at ARPA-H
“Susan is a globally recognized leader in health innovation with more than 20 years of experience working with high-level research organizations, including government, industry, and academia," said Dr. Wegrzyn. “Importantly, Susan exemplifies the culture that we want to create and amplify at ARPA-H, which will embrace scientific risk-taking to make leaps forward in accelerating better health outcomes for everyone.”
Prior to ARPA-H, Monarez was the founding director of the Center for Innovation at the Health Resources and Services Administration, the largest funder of safety-net health programs in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Monarez also served at the White House as the assistant director for National Health Security and International Affairs in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as the director of Medical Preparedness Policy on the National Security Council. In both White House roles, she led multiple efforts to enhance the nation's biomedical innovation capabilities. Monarez has also led the development of several Presidential-level national strategies, action plans, and policy directives related to domestic and global health.
Monarez served in leadership positions at the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency within the Department of Homeland Security, as well as HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research Projects Authority. In addition to leadership roles within the federal government, Monarez has served on advisory panels at the National Academies of Science, National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, and Federal Experts Science Advisory Panel, among others. Monarez was also a U.S. representative on several international cooperative initiatives with the European Union, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom in bilateral and multilateral engagements.
Monarez holds a Bachelor of Science and doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in, respectively, microbiology and microbiology and immunology. After completing her studies, she earned fellowships with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in addition to the Stanford University School of Medicine. More about Dr Susan Monarez
Dr Christian Bason
CEO at Danish Design Center
From 2007-2014, Christian headed MindLab, the Danish government’s innovation lab, and from 1998-2006 he ran the public organization & management practice of Ramboll, a consultancy.
Christian is also a university lecturer with amongst other Henley Business School, Copenhagen Business School and the European School of Administration, and acts as adviser to businesses and governments at home and globally. He is a regular columnist and the author of eight books on leadership, innovation and design, including "Expand: Stretching the Future by Design" and "Leading Public Sector Innovation".
Christian holds a Ph.D. in design leadership from Copenhagen Business School, an M.Sc. in political science from Aarhus University, and executive education from Wharton and from Harvard Business School.
He is a member of a range of Boards and institutions, including the Royal Danish Academy, the Centre for Leadership (CfL), the Rockwool Foundation Intervention Committee and chairman of Novo Nordisk Biomedical Design; previously he was member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Agile Governance and in 2012-13 he was Chairman of the EU Commission’s expert group on public sector innovation.
Christian is a Good Design Ambassador. In 2018 he was awarded the Creative Bureaucrat Prize by German daily Tagesspiegel. More about Dr Christian Bason
Anir Chowdhury
Policy Advisor of the a2i Program of the ICT Division and the Cabinet Division of the Government of Bangladesh supported by the UNDP
He is a member of the Prime Minister’s National Digital Task Force, Education Minister’s National Blended Education Task Force, WWW Foundation Alliance for Affordable Internet’s Advisory Council, and WEF and UNICEF’s Knowledge and Information Network for Digital Learning and Education’s Steering Committee. He is the Co-Chair of WEF’s Regional Action Group for Digital Transformation and a Deputy Champion of WEF’s EDISON Alliance to improve education, healthcare and financial services for 1 billion people worldwide. He is the Co-Founder and Board Member of South-South Network for Public Service Innovation (SSN4PSI) and Co-Founder of the Future of Work Lab in Asia Pacific. He co-founded several software and service companies and non-profit organizations in the US and Bangladesh. Anir graduated magna cum laude in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Brown University and did post-graduate work on management, marketing, educational transformation and public sector reform in Harvard, Columbia, Boston, Bradford and Oxford universities. He was a Chevening Fellow and currently a Visiting Fellow of Practice at Oxford.
Dr Alex Cooke
Director of Strategic Delivery and General Manager for the Missions Program within CSIRO
He was Australia's representative on the OECD's science, technology and innovation-related committees, represented Australia on technology and digital issues at the G7 and G20 and managed the bilateral science and innovation relationship with the EU. Before working in Brussels, Alex led a range of science policy functions in Australia’s Ministry for Industry, Innovation and Science. More about Dr Alex Cooke