Transformative mission-oriented innovation policy aims to redirect innovation, but evidence of this directional ability is limited. This paper examines whether transformer missions redirect values reflected by mission-oriented projects. We study the EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’ and use probabilistic topic modelling and thematic analyses to identify, conceptualize, and compare latent values described in 17 policy documents (i.e., strategic layer), 37 mission- projects, and 809 mission- projects (i.e., operational layer). We map how these values changed during the mission launch. The results of this study are ambivalent. On the one hand, the mission launch corresponds with an increase of funded projects of which mission-oriented projects commonly frame efforts towards mission objectives. On the other hand, there is a misalignment between policy and project-level values while the prevalence of project-level values remained largely unaffected by the mission. These mixed results provide a more nuanced understanding of transformer missions’ directional abilities.

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转型任务是否会改变以任务为导向的项目的价值？欧盟“恢复我们的海洋和水域”使命的案例


以使命为导向的变革性创新政策旨在重新定向创新，但这种定向能力的证据有限。本文研究了转型任务是否重新定向了以任务为导向的项目所反映的价值观。我们研究欧盟使命“恢复我们的海洋和水域”，并使用概率主题建模和主题分析来识别、概念化和比较 17 个政策文件（即战略层）、37 个任务项目和 809 个任务项目中描述的潜在价值。项目（即操作层）。我们绘制了任务启动期间这些值如何变化的图。这项研究的结果是矛盾的。一方面，任务的启动与资助项目的增加相对应，其中以任务为导向的项目通常框架为实现任务目标而努力。另一方面，政策和项目层面的价值观之间存在不一致，而项目层面价值观的普遍性在很大程度上不受任务的影响。这些混合结果提供了对变形任务定向能力的更细致的了解。