Empowering Tomorrow: A Leap into Anticipatory Innovation Governance

In the dynamic innovation landscape, I embarked with the OECD-OPSI team on a transformative journey to co-create a methodology for anticipatory innovation governance. This collaborative effort was more than a task; it was a commitment to reinforce the collaboration between the EU Policy Lab at the Joint Research Centre and the OECD-OPSI to explore new ways to help multiple actors embrace a discussion about the future as part of a learning process.

My contribution aimed not only to streamline methodologies but also to ignite a collective interest in navigating the uncharted territory of co-creating anticipatory innovation capacity.

In this journey, I have supported the team in designing workshops and processes, contributed to the insights gathered in the OECD report The Public Governance of Anticipatory Innovation Ecosystems in Latvia and brought emerging questions about the role of co-creation in developing anticipatory capacity in academic forums such as the 2023 EU-SPRI annual conference and the 62 ERSA conference.

We are now working together in the LIMinal project to turn those lessons learned into actionable knowledge to build anticipatory capacity but also better understand how that capacity can be better distributed among multiple actors across the innovation ecosystem and, in doing so, enable the capacity to act to face together the future.