White Spaces Innovation in Sweden - Innovation policy for ... - Vinnova

WHITE SPACES INNOVATION IN SWEDENFigure 5.2 Stacey MatrixSource: Stacey (2002)The issue for policy makers is then how to best influence FORM, KNOW and DO inorder to support innovation-led economic growth. The preferred way for policy makingis – as is shown by approaches like New Public Managment and Evidence based policymaking - to rely on complexity reduction which works in the zone closest to origo (bottomleft) in figures 5.2 and 5.3. The figure is called the Stacey matrix (Stacey 2002).Close to certainty and close to agreement policy is then the assumption for policy designand its implementation. As we have argued these assumptions are not fulfilled when itcomes to grand challenges and innovation. These are wicked issues. Zones 2 and 3require some changes in work process not least in terms of understanding the environmentbut it does not fundamentally change the policy “landscape”. This is however thecase in zones 5 and 6. In the chaotic zone the major achievement may be to understandand translate the environment into actionable patterns which is a kind of “order” thatmoves issues form chaos to the complexity zone where still action has to be characterizedby co-creation applying design thinking and similar approaches.102