Current Projects:

Project on National Emerging Technology Policy Strategising (NETS)

In collaboration with UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), this project explores effective practices and lessons learned for strategic and systematic analysis of emerging technologies.

Glossary for National Emerging Technology Policy Strategising (NETS)

Technology strata system framework: A framework distinguishing between technologies

The technology strata system framework provides a systematic framework to characterise technologies and capabilities that enable the development and commercialisation of emerging technologies.

Evolving social network of innovation communities

This project examines how and why communities of innovation form and evolve.

Statistical revisitation of innovation models

This project aims to understand whether existing models of innovation hold for contemporary innovation.

Long-term patterns in technological emergence

This project addresses the questions of how and why technologies emerge in the long term.

Division of innovation labour across technological maturities

This project explores how scientific funders coordinate in the long term.

Governance of research and innovation: UK in an international comparative context

This project aims to comparatively assess international R&I governance, including energy R&I, best practices across leading innovation economies with implications for improving R&I systems.

Technology family as a unit of analysis of innovation lifecycles: The case of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in the US

This project explores the lifecycle dynamics of nanotechnology at the technology family level as a more appropriate alternative to strategizing for innovation.

The importance of tool technologies for commercialization

Despite their importance in accelerating commercialization, R&D and engineering tool technologies are often underfunded or not considered early on in the technology development process due to their quasi-public good content.

Challenge-led Innovation Policy

CSTI's wider research and policy work contributes to topics on challenge-led innovation policy.