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Recommendations
DTU suggestions
Cross-government collaboration has the potential to yield tremendous public value. We have in this report explored how the Global Scale-Up Programme (GSUP) was set up and run. From this, we have derived three key recommendations. The recommendations seek not to give you the final answer, but shed light into some of the areas of importance when navigating the risks and potentials of cross-governmental collaboration. 1 Have a strong why!
• Ensure to have a purpose in which both programme partners and participating companies can see themselves. This is essential when getting people to be part of the programme. • Create opportunities in which both participating programmes and participating companies gain exposure, enabling them to push their individual agenda.
Technology development calls for involvement
We strongly believe that solving global challenges, like the climate crisis, depends on the development and scaling of technological solutions. The Covid-19 crisis has shown this. However being that “technologies themselves are inherently social embodying values, assumptions and principles of the developers creating them and the social context in which they are developed” (Wajcman 2018) [1] we belive, there is a need for involving all sectors in the development and scaling of technological solutions and especially governments to take the lead. Introducing the triple helix [2] (the collaborative interaction between the public, private and academic sectors) as a methodology for understanding and further strengthen the position of cross-governmental programmes, gives a model for future programmes to be built upon. By utilising the dynamics of the triple helix, new ecosystems will emerge enabling faster development, discovery and scaling of green tech solutions. Further, new competencies are developed in a closer collaboration between the sectors, which enables people to take an active part in shaping the future of society.
Policy development should be a multi-stakeholder effort
Throughout the GSUP it has become increasingly clear that enabling companies to scale their green tech solutions e.g., enabling sustainable fishery to take place, saving our planet from overfishing and destruction of the seabed, demands a closer collaboration with government to ensure contemporary laws, which enable sustainable solutions. With programmes like the GSUP, dynamic structures are set for deepening the relationship and collaboration between the sectors, enabling governments to support and be a co-creator of solutions for the future. As pointed out by the World Economic Forum, 2018: “[..] working with innovators to support new market development for their innovations could, in return, encourage innovators to engage pro-actively with policymakers to co-design the governance ecosystem for their inventions”. (WEF, 2018) [3]
2 Create a Multi-layered model
• Establish a multi-layered model utilising different layers, e.g. project artefacts, agility, and culture to ensure the dynamics and resilience needed to bring innovation and mitigate risk of failure. • Cultivate relationships, as this will enable a smoother process when dealing with different local agendas. Further, it enables you to create a shared road for the journey. 3 Competencies
• Bring in people with a diverse set of competencies and create space for everyone to bring their competencies to the table.
This will mitigate the complexity of running a cross-governmental programme. • Secure that all eight key competencies are present: Entre-/Intrapreneur,
Agile, Technology, Communication,
Leadership, Networking, Organising,
Public sector knowledge. • Utilise the experiences and network of everyone involved, thereby broadening the opportunities as well as creating possibilities for discovering new paths not walked before.
Fostering and developing intrapreneurial mindsets are needed
Creating new pathways within and between governments have shown to demand a quite substantial degree of courage – from challenging how things normally are done, to pushing the agenda to the highest level, i.e., trusting the vision. This goes for the programme leader as well as the participating programmes. We believe that fostering and developing intrapreneurial mindsets within governments is needed if governments are to solve the problems of the future.
Utilising the exponential development of technologies
The exponential development of technologies holds the promise of solutions to global challenges, however although necessary, technologies by themselves are not sufficient – they have to be adopted and embraced by people from all stakeholders in the society, which requires a common understanding of technologies and a common language to engage informed discussions about our future. Hence, for transformative acceleration of these advances for society to take place, programmes like the GSUP should be used, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, enabling innovative solutions to be found in the intersections. The ability to combine and recombine technologies and people and build on existing innovation is core to creating exponential innovations and solutions for the benefit of society.
[1] Wajcman, J. (2018), “Digital technology, work extension and the acceleration society”, German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, Vol. 32 (3-4) 168-176
[2] The triple helix was introduced by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff and illustrates the University-Industry-Government Relations as a laboratory for Knowledge-Based Economic Development.
[3] WEF (2018), Agile Governance Reimagining Policy-making in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, White paper, World Economic Forum, Geneva, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/ WEF_Agile_Governance_Reimagining_Policy-making_4IR_report.pdf
