Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28447 2026-11-01T23:07:10Z 2026-11-01T23:07:10Z Sieber, Niklas Krail, Michael Horlemann, Jonas Aulich, Clara https://hdl.handle.net/10419/340106 2026-04-25T01:49:14Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ex-post-Untersuchung der Klimawirkungen von ausgewählten verkehrlichen Maßnahmen in Baden-Württemberg Authors: Sieber, Niklas; Krail, Michael; Horlemann, Jonas; Aulich, Clara Abstract: Städte können das Klima schützen, indem sie Bewohnerparken teurer machen, Schnellbuslinien einführen oder kostenloses Parken für Elektroautos ermöglichen. Im Auftrag des Verkehrsministeriums Baden-Württemberg hat das Fraunhofer ISI die Klimawirkungen verschiedener Maßnahmen für den Klimaschutz berechnet und ausgewertet. Untersucht wurden Fallbeispiele aus Stuttgart, Tübingen, Freiburg und Landau in Rheinland-Pfalz.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Kivimaa, Paula Janssen, Matthijs Edler, Jakob https://hdl.handle.net/10419/338081 2026-03-21T02:56:12Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: From sustainability transitions to security: Mapping the new terrain for innovation policy Authors: Kivimaa, Paula; Janssen, Matthijs; Edler, Jakob Abstract: Increasing rise of military and non-military security issues, globally, influences innovation policies and interacts with policy aspirations to address societal challenges, notably around sustainability transitions. Drawing from research on security, geopolitics, and transformative and mission-oriented innovation policy, we map out what an increased focus on security means for challenge-led innovation policymaking. The analysis is structured around five policy imperatives: directionality, experimentation, inclusivity, regime destabilisation, and policy mix adaptation. Some clear synergies exist between sustainability and security, e.g., directing innovation support towards technologies that reduce supply chain dependencies, or dual-use technologies that improve resource efficiency and defence capability. Tensions also exist, e.g. security-risks of smart 'clean' technologies, or making innovation processes more closed for security reasons. Three broad policy strategies to govern the interrelations between security and sustainability objectives in innovation policy are proposed. The contribution raises awareness and provides nuance regarding ways the rising security concerns influence challenge-led innovation policy.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Edler, Jakob Shi, Liu https://hdl.handle.net/10419/341106 2026-05-18T16:01:11Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Polity configurations and the performance of state intervention in transformative policies: A conceptual framework Authors: Edler, Jakob; Shi, Liu Abstract: The imperatives of addressing grand societal challenges, such as fighting the causes for and implications of climate change, have driven a burgeoning scholarship on policy intervention to facilitate directional change in socio-technical systems. While the role of the state has come into focus - in particular in sustainability transition studies - there is little systematic conceptualization as to what drives and hinders the performance of state intervention in transformative policies. What is particularly missing is the understanding of how the polity of political systems affects the way in which the state facilitates political decision-making and mobilizes societal efforts for transformative change; and how different polities contribute to differences in state performance across Western democracies. This paper is a first systematic attempt to close this gap by conceptualizing the role of polity for state performance in the context of transformational policies. To do so, it first conceptualizes state performance as the introduction, ambition and sustainability of transformational policies, their input and throughput legitimacy and the societal efforts mobilized towards system change. Second, it focuses on two dimensions of polity configuration which, according to political science literature, have proven to be of particular importance for state performance: (i) the form of government in combination with the electoral system, and (ii) unitary versus federalist systems. Based on comprehensive deduction from conceptual and empirical literature in political science as well as governance and transition studies, the paper derives starting assumptions as to how specific manifestations of those polity configurations shape state performance in transformative policies. The resulting series of starting assumptions indicates that different polity configurations across Western democracies shape state performance in transformative policies in distinct ways. This conceptual paper thus provides the basis to inform future empirical studies that are interested in the long-term performance of the state when it comes to driving transformations.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Wittmann, Florian Weiblen, Nele Hummler, Andreas Lindner, Ralf https://hdl.handle.net/10419/341396 2026-06-12T16:18:00Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: From high-tech strategy to high-tech agenda Germany: An overview of 20 years of the German STI flagship policy Authors: Wittmann, Florian; Weiblen, Nele; Hummler, Andreas; Lindner, Ralf Abstract: This discussion paper examines how Germany designs and implements its major federal science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies. Being a flagship policy since 2006, the High-Tech Strategy and its following successors have not only provided a framework for German STI policy but also evolved considerably over time. Shifting towards a mission-oriented approach in 2018 with the High-Tech Strategy 2025, the most recent High-Tech Agenda Germany in turn highlights six key technologies. This paper provides an overview of the federal High-Tech Strategy (and its successors). It analyzes strategy context, priority selection, implementation (including budgeting and instruments), and policy learning. The High-Tech Strategy and its successors have served as the federal government's umbrella STI strategy, coordinating activities across ministries since 2006. Strategy development is coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt; BMFTR) and has relied on different approaches to prioritize activities including key technologies, missions and demand areas/future tasks. Despite these changing orientations and political priority setting, there is considerable continuity in overarching priorities, reflecting rather a gradual development than radical changes. Serving as an umbrella strategy, it lacks an independent budget and depends on the willingness of ministries to contribute to the strategy, being partly locked in a "STI trap". It focuses mostly on thematically oriented research funding, providing inputs to selected priorities, while acknowledging the importance of framework conditions (that are partly beyond the scope of the federal level, as universities are financed mainly by the regional level). Stakeholder involvement has increased over time but does not include the formulation process. While monitoring has been recently established, echoing repeated calls from advisory bodies, so far, no evaluation has taken place at the strategy level. The recently adopted High-Tech Agenda Germany reflects a paradigm shift, returning to key technologies and promising several innovations, including a stronger involvement of the regional level that so far has been widely absent from this strategy.

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