Caetano Penna
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Publications

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1Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Penna, C.C.R., Mazzucato, M. and Santos, G.O. (2026). Systemic Capacities and Capabilities for Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: The Case of Brazil's Inova Programme. Policy Design and Practice.
  2. Penna, C.C.R. (2026). Crustacean Nations: The Geopolitics of Survival under the Donroe Doctrine. CEBRI-Revista.
  3. Coenen, T.B.J., Wiarda, M., Wanzenböck, I., Janssen, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2026). What Are Transformative Missions, Really? Three Dimensions for One Shared Understanding. Science and Public Policy, scag002.
  4. Coenen, T.B.J., Wiarda, M., Visscher, K., Penna, C.C.R. and Volker, L. (2025). Mission-Oriented Transition Assessment as a Reflective Approach to Mission Governance. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 219 (124257).
  5. Penna, C.C.R., Schot, J. and Steinmueller, W.E. (2023). Transformative Investment: New Rules for Investing in Sustainability Transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 49, 100782.
  6. Kanger, L., Tinits, P., Pahker, A.-K., Orru, K., Velmet, A., Sillak, S., Šeļa, A., Mertelsmann, O., Tammiksaar, E., Vaik, K., Penna, C.C.R., Tiwari, A.K. and Lauk, K. (2023). Long-Term Country-Level Evidence of Major but Uneven Ruptures in the Landscape of Industrial Modernity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48, 100765.
  7. Janssen, M.J., Wesseling, J.H., Klerkx, L., Weber, M., Torrens, J. and Penna, C.C.R. (2023). Missions as Boundary Objects for Transformative Change. Science and Public Policy, scac080.
  8. Penna, C.C.R., Romero Goyeneche, O.R. and Matti, C. (2023). Exploring Indicators for Monitoring Sociotechnical System Transitions through Portfolio Networks. Science and Public Policy, scad015.
  9. Santos, G.O., Penna, C.C.R. and La Rovere, R. (2023). Missão Covid-19: Potenciais e Limites para a Construção de uma Política de Inovação Orientada a Missões. Revista Economia Ensaios, 38: 201–229.
  10. Penna, C.C.R., Santos, G.O. and Pereira, M.V.G. (2021). O Papel das Agências de Inovação e Empreendedorismo na Formulação de Políticas de Inovação Orientadas a Missões: A Experiência da Diretoria de Tecnologia da FAPERJ. Revista de Administração e Sociedade, 7(2): 121–149.
  11. Labrunie, M.L., Penna, C.C.R. and Kupfer, D. (2020). The Resurgence of Industrial Policies in the Age of Advanced Manufacturing. Revista Brasileira de Inovação, 19: 1–39.
  12. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2016). Beyond Market Failures: The Market Creating and Shaping Roles of State Investment Banks. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 19(4): 305–326.
  13. Penna, C.C.R. and Geels, F.W. (2015). Climate Change and the Slow Reorientation of the American Car Industry (1979–2012): An Application and Extension of the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) Model. Research Policy, 44(5): 1029–1048.
  14. Geels, F.W. and Penna, C.C.R. (2015). Societal Problems and Industry Reorientation: Elaborating the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle (DILC) Model and a Case Study of Car Safety in the USA (1900–1995). Research Policy, 44(1): 67–82.
  15. Penna, C.C.R. and Geels, F.W. (2012). Multi-Dimensional Struggles in the Greening of Industry: A Dialectic Issue Lifecycle Model and Case Study. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(6): 999–1020.

2Books and chapters

  1. Penna, C.C.R., Velasco, D., Schot, J. and Molas-Gallart, J. (2026). From Technological to Transformative Missions: Institutional Capacities and Capabilities for Contemporary Mission-Oriented Policies. in Cantner, U., Fornahl, D. and Kuhlmann, S. (eds.) The New Role of the State for Transformative Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 129–146.
  2. Penna, C.C.R., Schot, J., Velasco, D. and Molas-Gallart, J. (2025). The Formative Evaluation of Open-Ended Transformative Missions: The Vinnova Experience in the Food System. in Edler, J. et al. (eds.) Transformative Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 98–118.
  3. Janssen, M., Wesseling, J., Torrens, J., Weber, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2025). Missions as a Boundary Object in Umbrella Frameworks: The Case of the Dutch Mission-Oriented Top Sector and Innovation Policy. in Edler, J. et al. (eds.) Transformative Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 53–76.
  4. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2018). National Development Banks and Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation. in Griffith-Jones, S. and Ocampo, J.A. (eds.) The Future of National Development Banks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 255–277.
  5. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (eds.) (2015). Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation: New Ideas for Investment-Led Growth. London: Policy Network / Rowman & Littlefield.

3Policy reports and working papers

  1. Penna, C.C.R., Mazzucato, M. and Santos, G.O. (2025). Systemic Capacities and Capabilities for Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies. UCL IIPP Working Paper Series (IIPP WP 2025-02).
  2. European Commission & Penna, C.C.R. (2024). Mission-Oriented Funding and Instrument Synergies — Mutual Learning Exercise on EU Missions. Publications Office of the European Union.
  3. Penna, C.C.R. (2021). Technological Revolutions and the Role of the State in the Governance of Digital Technologies. Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World Essay Series. Project for Peaceful Competition.
  4. Saporito, N.F., Moreira, J.D.F.W., Penna, C.C.R. and Radaelli, V. (2021). Upgrading Institutional Capacities in Innovation Policy in Chile: Choices, Design, and Assessments. IDB Policy Paper. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.
  5. Dutrénit, G., Natera, J.M., Vera-Cruz, A.O., Penna, C.C.R. and Radaelli, V. (2021). Institutional Capacities in Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies in Mexico: Case Studies on Policy Choice, Design, and Evaluation. IDB Policy Paper. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.
  6. Penna, C.C.R. (2021). Geopolitics and the Economics of Innovation. CEBRI Policy Paper, 2/5.
  7. Penna, C.C.R. (2021). A 'New' Political Economy of Technological Innovation Strategies in the Post-Pandemic World? CEBRI Policy Paper, 3/4.
  8. Penna, C.C.R., Steinmueller, W.E. and Schot, J.W. (2021). The Promise of Transformative Investment: Mapping the Field of Sustainability Investing. Deep Transitions Working Paper Series, DT2021-11.
  9. Penna, C.C.R. (2020). O Papel do Estado no Desenvolvimento Socioeconômico. in Fundação João Mangabeira (ed.) Por uma Economia Política Criativa: Conceitos Básicos, 1, pp. 99–120.
  10. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2020). The Age of Missions: Addressing Societal Challenges Through Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB Policy Paper. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.
  11. Penna, C.C.R. (2019). Report on the Methodology for Developing CT&I Support Programs, Including the Mission-Oriented Approach. Inteligência Tecnológica e Programas Orientados por Missão. Brasília: CGEE.
  12. Mazzucato, M., Macfarlane, L., Penna, C.C.R. and Ryan-Collins, J. (2018). The Role of Patient Finance in Mission-Oriented Innovation: The Market Shaping Role of State Investment Banks. ISIGrowth Working Paper, 21/2018.
  13. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2016). The Brazilian Innovation System: A Mission-Oriented Policy Proposal. CGEE.
  14. Mazzucato, M. and Penna, C.C.R. (2015). The Rise of Mission-Oriented State Investment Banks: The Cases of Germany's KfW and Brazil's BNDES. SPRU Working Paper Series (2015-26).

4Translations

  1. Reinert, E.S. (translated by Penna, C.C.R.) (2016). Como os Países Ricos Ficaram Ricos... e por que os Países Pobres Continuam Pobres. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.