Centre for Policy Innovation

The Centre for Policy Innovation (CPI) is an ANU centre for research, outreach and teaching on policy innovation.

CPI is located within the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) from where it seeks to develop extensive cross-campus links as part of its multi-disciplinary focus.

The Chair of Policy Innovation is Professor Adam Graycar.

The multi-disciplinary Centre’s activities cover the following dimensions of policy innovation:

• Evidence based innovation in the public sector;
• Innovation in science, technology and research funding instruments;
• Innovation and international engagement;
• Wider social, cultural and political issues in innovation;
• The role of civil society in policy innovation;
• Understanding creativity in innovation.

These initial themes will evolve as the Centre develops.

Sub-units

CPI integrates the following existing RSSS units and activities:

• The Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology cooperation (FEAST) which concentrates on policy and practical aspects of engagement with Europe in research and innovation.
  www.feast.org

CPI Actions

CPI will engage with stakeholders in government and civil society (NGOs etc) via a series of ‘Actions’. These Actions, which are based upon a model developed in Europe (the COST Actions run by the European Science Foundation (ESF)), draw together and exploit the synergies between existing policy-related research projects.

CPI Actions are designed to make it easier to translate discipline-based academic research into practice-oriented information, practical guidance and recommendations. In some cases, CPI Actions will focus on building new areas of policy related research in order fill gaps in current research efforts.

For further details contact Professor Adam Graycar at Adam.Graycar@anu.edu.au.