1. © European Communities, 2011 What is the OECD Innovation Policy Platform? The OECD Innovation Policy Platform is a web-based collection of guidance and information resources intended to aid processes of innovation system diagnostics and innovation policy design. The Platform sets out to codify and order the significant, but fragmented, knowledge base around innovation, to encourage intelligent benchmarking, to support international mutual learning and exchange, and, ultimately, to reframe innovation policy agendas. Architecture and design principles The primary building blocks of the Platform are modules that cover the main domain areas having an impact on an innovation systems performance (Figure 1). Additional modules related to particular grand challenges, such as innovation for development and green innovation, will also be added. At the current time, the Platform is still under development with a module on public sector research about to be piloted. Further modules will be added during 2011-12. Figure 1: Platform modules In fact, the Platform will never be completed as such; rather, it will remain a work in progress to be continually updated by the innovation policy user community. The Platform will therefore develop organically making full use of its modular structure. Within each module are key questions of interest to innovation policy. These constitute the entry-points to the Platform and navigate the user towards particular types of analysis within a multi-stage policy process. Furthermore, an information infrastructure of indicators and briefing materials is provided to assist analytic and interpretation work (Figure 2). Figure 2: Platform module elements What roles for FTA in the Platform? The Platform could be used in many different ways. Some users may be interested in just a single stage or activity of the policy process, e.g. diagnostic analysis, and will use the Platform to support this. Others may use the Platform to facilitate a multi- stage strategy process. The nature of the processes to be supported will also vary. Some may be little more than desk research while others may involve full-fledged multi-stakeholder deliberative forums. Whatever their scope and scale, most processes will benefit from some sort of future orientation. For example, diagnostics and problem framing processes can make good use of forecasts and forecasting techniques. They also require some articulation of desirable future visions as key reference points. Such visions could be the product of multi-stakeholder forums or might be derived through content analysis of reports, speeches or even artefacts. Once agreed upon, problems can typically be tackled in different ways. The use of scenarios or similar approaches that acknowledge multiplicity and complexity can bring important insights to policy design work. Backcasting approaches can be used to map the course of interventions, as can techniques such as technology roadmapping. Some of the contributions FTA could make are shown in Figure 3. Figure 3: The relevance of FTA in diagnostic and design processes Contact Michael Keenan Country Studies and Outlook Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD Tel. +33 1 4524 7617 Fax +33 1 4430 6264 E-mail: michael.keenan@oecd.orgmichael.keenan@oecd.org Web: http://www.oecd.org/innovationhttp://www.oecd.org/innovation NOTES 1.Poster Title Replace the mock-up text of the poster title (Joint Research Centre) with the text of your own title. Keep the original font colour (100c 80m 0y 0k). Keep the flush-right justification. Set it in Helvetica Rounded Bold Condensed, if you own the typeface. Otherwise, in Arial, Helvetica or Verdana – plain or bold. Keep the original font body size (102 pt or, preferably,120 pt) and the title on a single line whenever possible. 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