Four major social issues

Mission-driven Innovation Policy

In 2018, Minister Wiebes and State Secretary Keijzer (both of Economic Affairs and Climate) coined the term "mission-driven innovation policy. A new strategy to accelerate major transitions. In a parliamentary letter, they stated that Dutch innovation policy should focus on four major societal themes:

  • Energy transition
  • Agriculture, water and food
  • Health and care
  • Safety

An explanation of the innovation policy followed in 2019 and stated that for each theme, a large number of parties must start working together. This is because the social challenges we face today are so large and complex: disciplinary cooperation and/or technological innovation alone will not get us there...

Purpose: to encourage collaboration

Within the "Mission-Driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy," the government challenges business, science and civil society organizations with concrete, ambitious, urgent and above all complex challenges for which no solution exists yet, but for which there is demand. These issues often cannot be solved with one new product or system, but are important to address. Consider, for example, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Mission-Driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy brings about cooperation between public and private parties. They do this with a joint annual commitment of €4.9 billio

4 themes and 25 missions

Within the four societal themes, the cabinet has defined 25 challenges. The themes and 25 missions will guide policy, programming and funding within all top sectors in the coming years (2020 - 2023). For example, consider challenges such as: how will healthcare remain affordable and accessible to all? What can we do about climate change? How do we turn waste into valuable raw materials? And how do we stay ahead of threats to our security? With challenges like these, the Netherlands is aiming at 2030, 2050 and beyond.

Knowledge and Innovation Agendas

  • KIA Resilience

    An integral knowledge and innovation agenda has been developed for each theme by the nine top sectors together. From the Creative Industry top sector CLICKNL is involved in this, and we are actively working to connect these separate agendas with the KIA of the Creative Industry called KIA Resilience. By being in dialogue with the government, with creative professionals and with researchers from the creative industry and with other sectors, we create opportunities for the creative industry to connect to this policy. This is how we tackle these societal challenges together.

  • Overleg
  • We werken actief aan het leggen van verbinding van de integrale, thematische agenda’s met onze KIA Veerkracht. Door in gesprek te zijn met de overheid, met (creatieve) professionals en met onderzoekers uit de creatieve industrie en andere sectoren, creëren we kansen voor de gehele creatieve sector. Kansen in de vorm van samenwerking, en meewerken aan programma’s en projecten.

In addition to these four "theme" agendas and our own agenda called KIA Resilience, there are also the KIA Social Earning Power and the KEM agenda.