Diagnose Your Policy Problem
and Refine Your Value Proposition
Steve Williams & Blair Simonite
April 7 2015
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SCIENCE AND POLICY:
WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIST?
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Science and Policy
Policy for Science
• Active intervention of the
state in the process of
knowledge creation,
innovation and
commercialization
• e.g. National innovation
systems (NSERC, Genome
Canada) , human capital
Source: Milind Kandlikar, 2015
Science for Policy
• Use of scientific knowledge
in the formation of public
policy
• e.g. Expert advice to
policy makers, scientists as a
stakeholder group in public
debate
Elements of Policy Design
Element
Questions to ask
Goals
What are the goals of the policy? To eliminate a problem? To
alleviate a problem but not entirely eliminate it? To keep a problem
from getting worse?
Causal model
What is the causal model? Do we know that, if we do X, Y will
result? How do we know this? If we don’t know, how can we find
out?
Tools
What tools or instruments will be used to put the policy into effect?
Will they be more or less coercive? Will they rely more on
incentives, persuasion, or information? Capacity building?
Targets
Whose behavior is supposed to change? Are there direct and
indirect targets? Are design choices predicated on our social
construction of the target population?
Implementation
How will the program be implemented? Who will lay out the
implementation system? Will a top-down or bottom-up design be
selected? Why?
Birkland, T.A. (2005) An Introduction to the Policy Process, 2nd ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe., p. 160)
Types of Policy Influence
Lindquist, E. (2001). Discerning Policy Influence: Framework for a Strategic Evaluation
of IDRC-Supported Research.
Continuum of Research Use
Awareness
Conceptual
Knowledge
and
understanding
Attitudes,
perceptions,
ideas
Practice and
policy change
Instrumental
Nutley, S. M., Walter, I., & Davies, H. T. (2007). Using evidence: How research can inform public services. Policy press.
Wright, D. (2013). Bridging the Gap Between Scientists and Policy Makers: Whither Geospatial?. Presented at the
Geospatial World Forum, Rotterdam. Retrieved from http://slideshare.net/deepseadawn/gwf-policy
YOUR POLICY CHALLENGE
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THEORIES OF CHANGE
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Pathways for Change
Stachowiak, S. (2009). Pathways for Change. Organizational Research Services.
Landacre Research (2012). MLP: Insights into social and technological change.
Gay Marriage
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Strategies for Change
through an MLP Lens
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Develop niche innovation
Align niche innovations
Target regime directly
Observe landscape pressure, take advantage
of windows of opportunity
• Change the landscape
YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE
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BACK IN 15 MINUTES
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PROPOSITION DESIGN
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Value Proposition Canvas
http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/downloads/value_proposition_canvas.pdf
Policy Entrepreneurship Program
Jumping Through Hoops?
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Policy Entrepreneurship Program
Jumping Through Hoops?
Overcoming Policy Barriers and Institutional
Hurdles that Prevent Your Research from
Achieving Its Full Impact
A combination of speaker sessions and hands-on
workshops to assist researchers in developing
strategies to address both policy and regulatory
challenges.
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Policy Entrepreneurship Program
Intended Audience
This program is open to anyone who has an
innovative idea or project that they want to
develop to its full potential. This includes University
of British Columbia-based scientists and
researchers, as well as participants from outside the
UBC community.
Register online now!
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Policy Entrepreneurship Program
The Speaker Series
Date
Talk
Speakers
April 14,
2015
12:00 –
1:30pm
Making it Count: How
Policy Makers Use (or
Don't) Research for
Decisions
Dr. Evert Linquist
Director, School of Public
Administration, University of Victoria
May
12, 2015
12:001:30pm
Measuring Change
Sarah Stachowiak
Senior Vice President of
Organizational Research Services
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Policy Entrepreneurship Program
The Workshop Series
Date
Workshop
April 7, 2015
1:00 – 4:30pm
Diagnose Your Policy Problem & Refine Your
Value Proposition
April 21, 2015
9:00am12:30pm
Map Your Stakeholder Landscape
May 14, 2015
9:00am12:30pm
Build Your Strategy
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References
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Birkland, T.A. (2005) An Introduction to the Policy Process, 2nd ed. Armonk, NY:
M.E. Sharpe., p. 160)
Olesson, E. (2012). What is MLP - Multi Level Perspective. (D. Olesson). University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Geels, F. W. (2013, November 27). Socio-technical transitional thinking and carbon
emissions. Brussels.
Geels, F. W. (2002). Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration
processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8-9),
1257–1274.
Geels, F. W., & Schot, J. (2007). Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways.
Research Policy, 36(3), 399–417.
Burch, S., Shaw, A., Dale, A., & Robinson, J. (2014). Triggering transformative
change: a development path approach to climate change response in
communities. Climate Policy.
Lindquist, E. (2001). Discerning Policy Influence: Framework for a Strategic
Evaluation of IDRC-Supported Research, 1–28.
Nutley, S. M., Walter, I., & Davies, H. T. (2007). Using evidence: How research can
inform public services. Policy press.
Thank You!
Steve Williams steve@constructive.net @constructive
Blair Simonite blair.simonite@sauder.ubc.ca
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