Kieron's article is excellent! It points up so many of the problems facing the policymaking process that the article could serve as a set of key starting points for additional thinking for a book on responsible innovation policy.
One of the ideas that Kieron critiques is the problem of decisionmaking at various levels of governance. There is so little guidance out there for the local level policymakers that they mostly have to operate on their own. This is at least one area where a real handbook with real policy choices could be helpful.
If I could flame for a little bit, my own experience is that policymakers do not read the scholarly literature and thus there is very very little diffusion of knowledge between academics studying and theorizing on policy and the practice of good policymaking. Thus they remain unaided by the scholars who are in the field, scholars who, apparently, want to help improve policy.
What would a handbook look like that would actually be used by and help policymakers? (Should we ask a few of them?)
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