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In general all investigated MAPs include, as mentioned above, a variety of stakeholders in the
design process, mostly in the form of expert groups/workshops. Some countries confronted
these experts with detailed policy papers how the programme shall look like (AT, HU, SL), one
country (IE) published the draft programme as basis for a written consultative process on the
internet.
A general feature is that all design processes (initiated by ministries or agencies) carry out
consultative processes with a number of different actors, like policy consultants or
representatives from science and industry. An Advisory Research Council in form of a strategic
governmental advisory board, which doesn’t exist in all countries, was involved in the design
just in two cases out of 16 (EE and CA).
A specific feature can be observed for so-called “thematic MAPs” as the involvement of
additional actors very much depends on the subject covered by the respective MAP. E.g. UK’s
construction programme PII involved construction industry; Ireland’s Energy RDD involved
building developers, local authorities, energy agencies in the design process to ensure right
from the beginning that results in these special sectors will be useful and taken up by the users.
Just AT, HU, EE reported about an efficient and fast design process where roles of the various
stakeholders were clear which is considered as good practice. On the contrary the German
MAP was developed through a very long and exhaustive design process, which included all
relevant actors in the field.
4.3.3 “And the dominant public actor is: ….”
As the MAP-TN and StarMAP showed for the majority of MAPs investigated the ministries take
the lead in the design process. An exception is SE where the former agency NUTEK (now
VINNOVA) has set up the Competence Centre programme. This has to do with the Swedish
system in general with their strong role for the agencies and their lean ministries. A similar
example is FI with TEKES’ Technology Programmes and the thematic MAP in IE, where the
relevant agency Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, the former Irish Energy Centre, has
had a very strong design role. A distinct approach was followed by AU (see details below) and
CA: These countries started the programme design with a political announcement during
elections.
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