Innovation Policy Dialogue
What this workstream is about
The Innovation Policy Dialogue aims to strengthen the national innovation system by fostering an enabling policy environment. This is being achieved through collaboration with government agencies, think-tanks, and the academia to co-design tools and frameworks to support the development of effective and inclusive innovation policies. This will help embrace new and disruptive technologies, address emerging opportunities and challenges, and boost innovation. Not only enhancing economic growth, but these policies will also align with concerns about social inclusion, equitable distribution of growth benefits, climate change impacts, and environmental sustainability, as articulated by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
How it is delivered
The delivery of the Innovation Policy Dialogue aligns with Aus4Innovation’s commitment to enhance the capacity of policy makers, deepening policy dialogues around innovation, and drawing insights for policy recommendations. We therefore invest our effort on:
Policy Design and Evaluation Strengthening
Providing frameworks and concepts that enable informed policy design decisions, honing policy evaluation skills to identify needs for policy changes
Learning Mechanisms for Evidence-based Policy
Building channels that integrate on-the-ground innovation experiences with policymaking so that policies can be responsive to socio-economic and sustainability challenges
Networks of Experts Establishment
Underpinning the above dimensions will be the development of a network of researchers and other relevant stakeholders in Vietnam and internationally to foster evidence generation and policy analyses, hence re-enforcing a policy practice that based on performance evidence.
What success looks like
Success in the Innovation Policy Dialogue is defined through tangible outcomes that reflect the adoption, recognition, and application of new approaches, protocols, and framework and guideline, specifically:
Adoption of protocols
In the development of innovation policy in domains such as AI and agriculture, protocols draw on diverse sources of evidence and stakeholder perspectives to explicitly incorporate and target climate change, environmental sustainability, and social inclusion are adopted.
Recognition of new approaches
Approaches for analysing innovation system performance explicitly recognise both formal and informal innovation capacity and activity, and assess social inclusion and sustainability performance measures alongside economic performance.
Application of frameworks & guidelines
Frameworks and guidelines to evaluate existing policy and design novel options are developed and applied in collaboration between Australian and Vietnamese counterparts in areas critical to the Government of Vietnam.
