A new playbook for mobilising businesses to address societal challenges: I’m excited to share that my new report on business involvement in mission-oriented innovation policies (MOIPs) was published today.

Every day this year, my newsletter, Innovation in the News, brings together articles on innovation policy from around the world. To wrap things up, here’s my annual roundup of the pieces that stood out the most to me from 2025. See more details here: innovationinthenews.substack.com/p/charless-f...

Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck in old habits — grant-giving, compliance, and rigid oversight — when the world needs institutions that **learn, adapt, and lead**. Full article 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...

The Neurotech Inflection Point open.substack.com/pub/nitafara...

🚀 From Canada to the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social in Paris, Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value MPA graduate @charlesemcivor.bsky.social is using systems thinking to shape global innovation policy. 🔗 Learn more about his story and career journey: buff.ly/PCvnvVS @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

Do you want to work at the OECD on mission-oriented policies? Check out this new job posting on my (very nice and smart) team: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Are you looking for a summer reading list on innovation policy? Here are seven interesting pieces from 2025 that I thought were particularly interesting

Could you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

I'm finding Bluesky such an echo chamber for US politics. Any tips on how to see something else than 1,000,000 posts about an election in Wisconsin and Cory Booker? At first when I joined I had my nerdy innovation policy space but now it's hard to find between the noise

Mission portfolio management is a critical ingredient in the success of mission-oriented innovation policies, but what does this look like in practice? A new OECD paper introduces actionable guidance for the development, management, and monitoring of mission portfolios www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Sometime very soon after Sunday, PM Trudeau will step down and return to private life. Here's a thing on trying to measure the PM's legacy. !!!Warning - charts and data!!! #cdnpoli #cdnecon medium.com/@jennifer.ro...

How does Korea design, co-ordinate, and implement mission-oriented policies? I am excited to announce the release of a new OECD study on the challenges and opportunities of mission-oriented innovation policy in Korea #MOIP #STIpolicy www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

The Metascience Alliance is launching at #Metascience2025! This new cross-sector network is building collaboration to better understand & improve the research system. We want your input! Here's how to get involved (🧵)

New post! Looking at three recent papers on the productivity impact of public R&D, all find positive impacts. mattsclancy.substack.com/p/government...

New post! Looking at who benefits more from technologies that make discovery easier; literal maps, genome wide association studies, and machine learning.

Mission-oriented #innovation policies hold great promise for tackling #climate challenges, but can they deliver results? Our blog explores the findings of new #OECD analysis based on over 100 #NetZero missions and case studies: oe.cd/5Tj #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

In a wide-ranging interview, the new research commissioner Zaharieva sets out her agenda for the EU Framework Programmes sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-budg...

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025 www.ilo.org/publications...

An overview of the Biden administration's achievements regarding science and innovation - Keeping Our Pact with the American People: Science and Technology for Our Future www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

An overview of the Biden administration's achievements regarding science and innovation - Keeping Our Pact with the American People: Science and Technology for Our Future www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

Open call for applications, NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp 2025. Bootcamp to be held in Cambridge, MA on July 11-17, 2025. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on February 6, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/nber-innovation-research-boot-camp-2025

Conservatives plan to scrap subsidies, use tax code to spur innovation thelogic.co/news/conserv...

Wider benefits of competition policy and enforcement www.gov.uk/government/p...

Reimagining financing for the SDGs - from filling gaps to shaping finance desapublications.un.org/policy-brief...

Global Trends in AI Governance documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Charting the Path: An Energy Earthshots Initiative Report. Measuring the Progress and Mapping the Future of the Energy Earthshots Portfolio www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

OpenAI’s Economic Blueprint - The Blueprint outlines policy proposals for how the US can maximize AI’s benefits, bolster national security, and drive economic growth openai.com/global-affai...

Trump’s Offshore Wind Ban Is Coming, Congressman Says heatmap.news/sparks/offsh...

"Innovation Thrives on Diversity"- Amid a growing backlash in tech against DEI initiatives, it is worth remembering increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in companies and the economy at large boosts innovation & economic outcomes orbitpolicy.substack.com/p/innovation...

Future Signals – what we're watching for in 2025. Nesta's annual series about the trends and developments that are set to shape the coming year www.nesta.org.uk/feature/futu...

Ensuring U.S. Security and Economic Strength in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Biden administration unveils new global AI export controls aimed at China, which sets export quotas for about 120 countries www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

@nbagley.bsky.social, @niskanencenter.bsky.social, and I are organizing a conference on the Law of Abundance in early 2026. Please spread word -- and submit a paper proposal!

UK Prime Minister sets out blueprint to turbocharge AI - includes dedicated AI Growth Zones to speed up planning for AI infrastructure, and creating a new National Data Library to safely and securely unlock the value of public data and support AI development www.gov.uk/government/n...

The EU regulations to look out for in 2025 sifted.eu/articles/eu-...

Who’s quitting academia? Data reveal gender gaps in surprising fields. Even in scientific areas in which women are well represented, they are up to 40% more likely than men to leave research within 20 years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Make Carbon Dioxide Great Again’ law would ban carbon reduction efforts in Wyoming wyofile.com/make-carbon-...

Future of jobs report - 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Fut...

Prediction Technologies and Innovation - prediction technologies can affect research choices in a way that could lead to a net decline in the diversity of research approaches mattsclancy.substack.com/p/prediction...

The Growing Push to Ban Renewable Energy in Oklahoma. Will this renewable energy powerhouse become the first state to ban renewable energy? heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

Preparing Canadian Universities for a Conservative Government www.caninnovate.ca/p/preparing-...

How AI regulation could shake out in 2025 www.cnbc.com/2025/01/06/a...

Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation - the main lessons for green economic planning from post-war history, contemporary state practice and private sector cases www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Ghosts in the Machine - Spotify’s plot against musicians harpers.org/archive/2025...

Immigration and Innovation: What’s the Connection? itif.org/publications...

The Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks for 2025 www.eurasiagroup.net/issues/top-r...

How many Trump rewrite Bidenomics? Great analysis from @neilirwin.bsky.social @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/01/03/t...

Every morning I read about science, technology and innovation policy. Here is what I found to be the most interesting things I read in 2024 a 🧵 #innovation #technology #science #economics #policy #innovationpolicy

When to choose a ‘mission’ approach? Check out the 4-step “Mission Litmus Test” from the OECD oecd-opsi.org/blog/when-to...

How to best use STI policy experimentation to support transitions? www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

The Role of Incentives in Investment Promotion: A comparative analysis of investment incentives across OECD member countries and how they function within the wider context of investment promotion and facilitation. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...