Ludwig, David and Blok, Vincent and Garnier, Marie and Macnaghten, Phil and Pols, Auke
(2022)
What’s wrong with global challenges?
JOURNAL OF RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION, 9 (1).
pp. 6-27.
Abstract
Global challenges such as climate change, food security, or public
health have become dominant concerns in research and
innovation policy. This article examines how responses to these
challenges are addressed by governance actors. We argue that
appeals to global challenges can give rise to a ‘solution strategy’
that presents responses of dominant actors as solutions and a
‘negotiation strategy’ that highlights the availability of
heterogeneous and often conflicting responses. On the basis of
interviews and document analyses, the study identifies both
strategies across local, national, and European levels. While our results demonstrate the co-existence of both strategies, we find that global challenges are most commonly highlighted together with the solutions offered by dominant actors. Global challenges are ‘wicked problems’ that often become misframed as ‘tame problems’ in governance practice and thereby legitimise dominant responses.
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