Risks of policy failure in direct R&D support
本文基于风险治理和公共政策研究，提出一个概念框架来分析研发政策失败的风险，并强调需要采用适应性风险治理方法来应对直接研发支持实施中的失败风险。
In current socio-economic contexts characterised by high levels of uncertainty, the role of R&D policies to foster innovation becomes crucial. However, increased uncertainty exacerbates the risk of policy failure leading to ineffective R&D support. Despite this, R&D policy failure risk is rarely discussed in the literature. While innovation research acknowledges the existence of policy failure risks, their nature and the appropriate ways to address them are not analysed in an integrated manner. Drawing upon risk and risk governance concepts and public policy research, we present a conceptual framework for the analysis of R&D policy failure risks and their governance. • We present a conceptual framework built upon concepts from public policy and risk research to analyse R&D policy failure risks • We apply this framework to the analysis of risks of failure in the implementation of direct R&D support • We show that addressing risks of failure in R&D programmes implementation requires an integrative adaptive risk governance approach involving resilience-based coping strategies and systematic policy learning