Policy Publications

 

Recent CSTI Policy Publications:

 [forthcoming]

 

Policy Handbook on National Emerging Technology Policy Strategising (NETS)

Viktória Döme, Eoin O'Sullivan, Robert Doubleday, Nafeessah Ameerudden

CSTI in collaboration with the Directorate of Technologies, Growth & Security, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT)

 

 [forthcoming]

 

A Short Guide to National Emerging Technology Policy Strategising (NETS)

Viktória Döme

CSTI in collaboration with the Directorate of Technologies, Growth & Security, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT)

 

 

 

 

What makes the UK industrial innovation system different? (September 2025)

David Leal-Ayala, Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete, Carlos López-Gómez, Eoin O’Sullivan, Zongshuai Fan, Viktória Döme

Commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to inform the work of the National Technology Adviser, Dr Dave Smith

 

 

 

 

UK value capture from innovation: Understanding the alignment challenges between UK R&I capabilities and industrial opportunities (September 2025)

Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete, Viktória Döme, Carlos López-Gómez, Eoin O’Sullivan, Mateus Labrunie, Michelle Palladino, Guendalina Anzolin

Commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to inform the work of the National Technology Adviser, Dr Dave Smith

 

 

 

UK performance in technology scale-up: Translating and anchoring new science and engineering into commercially viable products and businesses (September 2025)

David Leal-Ayala, Zongshuai Fan, Carlos López-Gómez, Cristina Rodríguez Rivero, Eoin O’Sullivan

Commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to inform the work of the National Technology Adviser, Dr Dave Smith

 

 

 

 

Industrial Innovation Policy: Rationale, Definition and Challenges (January 2025)

Guendalina Anzolin, Eoin O'Sullivan

 

 

 

 

The Women in UK Manufacturing 2024: Addressing Labour Shortages and Bridging the Gender Gap (September 2024)

Jennifer Castañeda-Navarrete, Zoi Roupakia, Viktória Döme, Guendalina Anzolin

 

 

 

Babbage Forum in Asia: Reconfiguring Supply Chain Networks (July 2024)

Martin Ho

 

 

Babbage US Regional Meeting Report (June 2024)

Guendalina Anzolin

 

 

 

 

Perceptions of manufacturing: How to make manufacturing charming again? (December 2023)

Guendalina Anzolin, Jennifer Castañeda–Navarrete, Dalila Ribaudo

 

 

 

 

Technology strata: A framework distinguishing between technologies v1.0 (October 2023)

Viktória Döme, Eoin O’Sullivan, Cristina Rodriguez Rivero

 

 

 

 

Governance of research and innovation: UK in an international comparative context (October 2023)

Viktória Döme, Eoin O’Sullivan

 

 

 

 

 

 

The challenges of challenge-led research and innovation agencies (June 2021)

Martin Ho, Elizabeth Killen, Eoin O’Sullivan

 

 

 

 

 

‘Windows of opportunity’ for global leadership in key emerging technologies: The case for ‘disruptive innovation laboratories’ working at the interface of scientific discovery and technology development (November 2022)

Rob Miller, Eoin O'Sullivan

A submission to the Independent Review of the UK Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The role of intermediate RD&I institutes in building regional and sectoral innovation capabilities (November 2022)

Richard Jones, Eoin O'Sullivan

A submission to the Independent Review of the UK Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape

 

 

A technology management and innovation systems perspective on the ARPA model (July 2020)

Eoin O'Sullivan

Written evidence RFA0094, House of Commons Science & Technology Committee inquiry into 'A new UK research funding agency'

 

 

Inside the black box of manufacturing: Conceptualising and counting manufacturing (June 2019)

Jostein Hague, Eoin O'Sullivan

Report for the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

  

 

 


 

Past CSTI Policy Publications:

 

                                  

 

Pandemic Vaccination Programme Design: Lessons from COVID-19 (2021)

Yuna Yang

 

 

An International Review of Emerging Manufacturing R&D Priorities and Policies for the Next Production Revolution (2017)

Eoin O'Sullivan, Carlos López-Gómez

Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)

 

 

A Review of International Approaches to Center-based Multidisciplinary Engineering Research (2016)

Eoin O'Sullivan

A report for the US National Academy of Engineering

 

 

Building Long Term Strategic University-Industry Partnerships: Lessons and Effective Practices from UK and US Experiences (2015)

Tomas Coates Ulrichsen, Eoin O'Sullivan

CSTI Workshop Report

 

 

A Review of International Approaches to Supporting Quantum Technologies Research & Innovation (2015)

Paul Beecher, Eoin O'Sullivan

A report for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

 

 

A Review of International Public Sector Technology Strategies and Roadmaps: Case Study of Advanced Materials (2014)

Charles Featherston, Eoin O'Sullivan

A report for the Government Office of Science and Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)

 

 

The Different Roles of Technology in Technological Emergence (2014)

Charles Featherston

 

 

International Approaches to Understanding the Future of Manufacturing (2012)

Nicola Mitchell, Eoin O'Sullivan

A report for the UK Government Office of Science

 

 

The Role of Standardisation in Supporting Emerging Technologies (2012)

Eoin O'Sullivan, Laure Brevignon-Dodin

A study for the UK Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and the British Standards Institute

 

 

 

International Approaches to Manufacturing Research  (2011)

Eoin O'Sullivan

A report for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

 

 

Impact where it matters: The economic, social and cultural benefits of higher education in the UK (2010)

Michael Kenward, Eoin O'Sullivan

A workshop report for the Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE)