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Systemische Resilienz – Einsichten aus der InnovationsforschungFebruary 2021
Systemic resilience – Insights from innovation research
Policy Brief
Resilience must go beyond robustness, redundancy and emergency planning aimed at "bouncing back", and instead encompass systems' capacity to adapt and fundamentally transform ("bounce forward"), since companies, sectors and societies are complex adaptive socio‑technical systems. Because practical guidance for building adaptive and transformative resilience is still scarce, the authors draw on decades of innovation research and policy, which already studies how socio‑technical systems change and how their innovation capacity can be governed. They identify five transferable approaches, illustrated with cases such as the TechnologieRegion Karlsruhe 2030 strategy, the High‑Tech Strategy participation process, the BMVI mobility and fuels strategy, the Commission on the Future of Agriculture foresight exercise, and the mRNA/internet examples of long‑term basic research: developing local resources and regional innovation systems; strengthening diverse networks, participation and trust; providing "strategic intelligence" for governing transformations under uncertainty; fostering anticipation through foresight and futures literacy; and maintaining a broad, publicly funded base of curiosity‑driven research and competences. Conversely, resilience research can enrich innovation policy by challenging overly linear, plannable assumptions, pointing to approaches like anticipatory innovation governance and experimental spaces (real‑world labs) that embed self‑organisation into mission‑oriented policy — showing that innovation and resilience are mutually reinforcing goals requiring long‑term, strategic support.
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