Webinar Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy – Insights from OECD & Nordregio

Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy & Social Innovation: Insights from OECD and Nordregio

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIP) are designed and implemented across different regions—and how they connect with social innovation. Mission-oriented innovation policies have gained traction in academia and policy in recent years as a possible means to set the directionality of collective efforts and accelerate transformative change around some of today’s grand societal challenges.

🔹 Part I: Get an inside look at the OECD’s work on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies, with a focus on effective strategies for designing impactful missions. Discover the OECD MOIP online toolkit—a dynamic, searchable database featuring 35 real-world mission-driven policies from across the globe.

🔹 Part II: Gain insights into how MOIPs are shaping innovation policy at various territorial levels, with a focus on Nordic Countries. Learn from Nordic case studies and explore key recommendations for regional adoption.

Why attend?
This session is ideal for policymakers and (social) innovation actors looking to design and implement Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies in their specific local or regional context.

About our speakers:

Charles McIvor is a policy analyst at the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he conducts research on STI policies - with a particular focus on how to govern, coordinate, implement, and monitor and evaluate mission-oriented policies. He has over a decade of experience working in this space, joining the OECD from the Government of Canada where he conducted research, established new STI policies, and implemented innovation programs. He holds a MPA from Marianna Mazzucato’s Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose.

Alberto Giacometti is a research fellow at Nordregio, a Nordic and European research centre for regional development and planning, established by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Alberto specialises in regional development, governance and planning processes. He holds a MSc in European Spatial Planning at Radboud University, Netherlands and a MSc in Regional Development from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), Sweden. Alberto is the co-author of the recently published policy brief “Implementing Missions in Nordic Regions” (February 2025): http://doi.org/10.6027/PB2025:17.2001-3876 and the report "Making Innovation a Mission" (2024): http://doi.org/10.6027/R2024:17.1403-2503.

Host and Project Manager RESIST:

Sabine Herrmann, Hamburg Ministry of Economics and Innovation

Moderation:

Hauke Siemen (REM Consult)