Governing Missions in the European Union

Innovation is a key driver of long-term growth, fuelling productivity and transforming production, distribution and consumption across entire economies. But where does it come and what is it for?

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Horizon Europe: Governing Missions in the European Union

This report, Governing Missions in the European Union, looks at the ‘how’: how to implement and govern a mission-oriented process so that it unleashes the full creativity and ambition potential of R&I policy-making; and how it crowds-in investments from across Europe in the process. The focus is on three key questions:

• How to engage citizens in co-designing, co-creating, co-implementing and coassessing missions?
• What are the public sector capabilities and instruments needed to foster a dynamic innovation eco-system, including the ability of civil servants to welcome experimentation and help governments work outside silos?
• How can mission-oriented finance and funding leverage and crowd-in other forms of finance, galvanising innovation across actors (public, private and third sector), different manufacturing and service sectors, and across national and transnational levels?

Author

• Mariana Mazzucato | Director, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Reference

Mazzucato, M. (2019). Governing Missions in the European Union. European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/research_and_innovation/contact/documents/ec_rtd_mazzucato-report-issue2_072019.pdf