A systemic framework for a broad-based innovation policy

It is argued that such broad-based innovation policies require new types of systemic frameworks and tools in order to support innovation activities broadly and efficiently. The innovation generating model (Figure 1) has been created for this purpose, and it has been used to date on several occasions in Finland. It has been applied as a systemic framework for Finnish Workplace Development Programme (Alasoini & Ramstad, 2007), as an evaluation framework for learning network projects (Ramstad, 2003, 2009), as a framework for managing participatory innovation processes (Saarisilta & Heikkilä, eds., 2015), as an evaluation framework for innovation infrastructure (Ramstad 2009b), and as a framework for workplace development projects (Ramstad & Alasoini, 2007). It seems that the model can serve as a broader framework for different purposes in order to understand the embeddedness of different innovations, the roles of different actors and the processes involved.