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Hello to you all,
my name is Sally Davenport and
I'm based at Victoria University
of Wellington in New Zealand.
Thank you very much to
Prof. Anne-Laure
Mention of RMIT and
the Henry Stewart Talks team for
facilitating this talk today.
I'm going to be describing
various processes our
National Science Challenge,
which is called Science for
Technological Innovation or SfTI has
developed to try to improve the
impact of our research efforts.
0:31
Our whakatauki or guiding proverb
encapsulates SfTI's approach to
our purpose in that we
are very people-centered.
0:39
There are three parts
to my talk today.
First, I will introduce SfTI and
provide an overview of
what we've been doing
and are trying to do.
Second, I will canvass
what we mean by
impact both in its noun ('an impact')
and verb ('to impact') forms.
Last, I will outline
how we've been
changing our thinking
about impact and
our approach to how we can
provide evidence of
that impact with
a view of leaving a
hopefully lasting legacy
based on behavioral change.
1:07
This diagram shows the main
policy instruments that
make up the current New
Zealand R&D funding landscape.
For a small country of just
over 5 million people,
I think this is a
rather crowded space,
and there is a
review underway of
our innovation system
at the moment.
Note that the mission-led
space sits right in
the middle between investigator-led
and user-led research.
SfTI's leadership team took
a little time at
the beginning to
figure out what
mission-led means,
but because we are at arm's
length from the government with
our own governance structure,
we have been able to
experiment in a way that is
often not available
in the public sector.
We operate in an
interesting space between
traditional demand and
supply led approaches to
research—one that is
gaining traction around
the world to support
a more orchestrated approach
to complex problems.
SfTI has been particularly
interested in
the work of University
College of London economist
Marianna Mazzucato and
her Institute of Innovation
and Public Purpose,
around their work on
mission-led policy.
