# Advancing a responsible framework for Mission-oriented Innovation Systems: the case of French legume value-chains

PhD candidate: Hippolyte DA SILVA AGUIAR

Hippolyte-lion.da-silva-aguiar@inrae.fr

Supervisors: Marie-Benoit MAGRINI et Pierre LABARTHE

UMR AGIR, INRAE-Toulouse

PhD in economics financed by ANR SOYSTAINABLE
& INRAE MP SYALSA
## Mission-oriented Innovation Systems

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(Edquist, 2001; Hekkert et al. 2007; Hekkert et al. 2020; Magrini 2023)

Legume value-chains: recognized as important for sustainability but even though not doing well

IS: set of actors, networks and institutions influencing innovation (socio-technical change) – performance: functions.

MIS: an IS under the influence of a mission e.g. Dutch 50% of circularity at horizon 2030

Mission main feature:

- Address grand societal challenges (simplifying them);

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How to assess the quality of missions ?
(and of the innovation system around them?)

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The concept of responsibility:
anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and
responsiveness (Stilgoe et al. 2013)

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How MIS are taking responsibility into
account ? Empirical study: French
legume value-chains.

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Concretely – analysis at two levels:

- Legume value-chain multi-stakeholder associations : ‘mini-MIS’: what functions are they performing and how do they take into account responsibility ? (Through surveys, interviews, desk research ...);

- Historical analysis of the development of these value-chains :

- : i) make a link between lock-in mechanisms and the functioning of the system: IS functions which generated lock-in mechanisms

- ii) also make a link with the dimensions of responsibility (track traces of presence and absence of anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion and responsiveness?)

- Methods: historical data, interviews, textual analysis, STCA ??

- Questions: does the whole reasoning make sense (look at lock-in through IS functions and search for traces of responsibility? Which methods are better suited for this type of analysis?
Bibliography

Edquist, C., 2001. The Systems of Innovation Approach and Innovation Policy: An Account of the State of the Art.
Presented at the Nelson-Winter Conference, Aalborg, Denmark.

Hekkert, M.P., Suurs, R.A.A., Negro, S.O., Kuhlmann, S., Smits, R.E.H.M., 2007. Functions of innovation systems: A new approach for analysing technological change. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 74, 413–432.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2006.03.002

Hekkert, M.P., Janssen, M.J., Wesseling, J.H., Negro, S.O., 2020. Mission-oriented innovation systems. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 34, 76–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.11.011

Magrini, M.-B., 2023. Interactions sociotechniques de filière et fonctions des systèmes d'innovation responsable : une mise en perspective à partir d'enjeux de transition des filières agricoles. Innovations 181–207.
https://doi.org/10.3917/inno.070.0181

Stilgoe, J., Owen, R., Macnaghten, P., 2013. Developing a framework for responsible innovation. Research Policy 42, 1568–1580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.05.008