Smart roadmapping for STI policy

• Smart roadmapping architectures and modalities
• Mechanisms to handle resistance by STI community are needed.
• STI policy roadmap integrates priority setting and policy making.
• STI Ecosystems with a Quadruple/Quintuple Innovation Architectural Blueprint
• Higher Order Technological Learning

Roadmapping is a broadly applied management instrument for developing and implementing company technology and innovation strategies. During the last years this national science, technology and innovation (STI) policy makers have become aware of the potential roadmapping offers for strategic technology and innovation management and begun applying it in the context of STI policy and priority setting in this context especially. Still reality shows that roadmapping for STI policy purposes is by far more complex than company technology and innovation roadmapping.The article therefore develops a structured, integrated and flexible approach to roadmapping for STI policy which we name “Smart Roadmapping for STI Policy”, taking into account the complexity of STI policy as well as the need for and implications of a Targeted Open Innovation approach to STI policy and the resulting requirements to roadmaps. The proposed approach is designed to allow integration in the broader policy decision making and different level STI strategy implementation.