The practical realities of policy on the run - 4Qs
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Work Safety Legislation 2008 Respect Equity and Diversity Framework 2010 Business Development Strategy 2012 Better Services Better Practice Report 2012 Trading Scheme for EGMs 2013 Totalisator Legislation 2013 Red Tape Reduction Legislation 2014 Public Pools legislation 2014 Affordable Housing Action Plans Business Development Strategy 2015
Strategic Policy◦Push the boundaries◦Blue Sky◦Abstract
Responsive Policy◦Make it work◦high political influence◦policy on the run
Operational Policy◦Day to day◦keep things running
Intervention Logic Policy Cycle Bardach’s eightfold path of policy analysis Rational and Participatory approaches The panic loop Cost benefit Analysis Multi-criteria analysis Economic modelling and forecasting Scenario Analysis
‘High-performing public officials succeed in balancing these competing imperatives on a daily basis in their professional practice......developing various integrated and blended models.’
In groups of 3 or 4 pick one of the following examples and discuss how you would approach the task ie your blended approach (not your solution).
Deliver in 6 months: Prepare contemporary industry development strategy to support private sector growth in the ACT.
Deliver in 2 months: Working with an advisory group provide advice to an incoming government about public sector reform.
Deliver in 3 weeks: enable $50 note acceptors on ACT electronic gaming machines.
2. What does the evidence tell us?◦What’s the research telling us?◦What’s the data telling us?◦What are people telling us?
3. What should we do?◦Recommendations◦Outcomes◦Is this the right thing to do?◦Will our plan make a difference?◦Can it be implemented?
4. What does success look like?◦Outputs◦Program Evaluation◦Reporting timeframes◦What metrics do we hope to change?
The Problem? ACT Governments have successively nominated
‘buffering’ the local economy against fluctuations in Australian Government spending as a key priority.
Grow the Territory’s private sector. A diverse economy provides:• a variety of job opportunities• increased government revenue streams • reduces the overall impact of fluctuations in
government spending
Research told us? There are a range of economic regulation tools that
could be used by the ACT Government to encourage innovation and grow the Territory’s private sector economy.
These tools, or interventions, are designed to change the behaviour of individuals, families, organisations and whole communities through the use of incentives many of which have their genesis in microeconomics.
Policy Interventions addressing Innovation Market Failure
Policy Intervention type
Freiberg Regulation Category
Non-excludability
(private incentives too
low)
Non-rivalry (diffusion too
narrow)
Coordination
(broken linkages)
Risk(need to
share risk)
ACTGPrograms
R&D support schemes for industry
Service /Advice provision schemes Informational
Entitlement schemes/tax concessions Economic
Competitive Grants schemes Transactional
Public research Economic
Collaboration
University-industry linkages Informational
R&D consortia and inter-firm networks Informational
Industry R&D Corporations Transactional
Public procurement Market Creation
Financial support schemes/Venture Capital Transactional
Cluster formation and networks Informational
Common elements in strategies across the globe:◦ Investing in people (building knowledge, creating jobs)◦ Investing in place (Infrastructure, precincts, affordability)◦ Promotion (visit, study, work, do business, live)◦ Business Programs (innovation, commercialisation, trade,
investment)◦ Business friendly (regulations, taxes, fees, charges)◦ Focus on clean and green economic opportunities
Data told us? Lack of firm level innovation data Hard to prove program causation Plenty of anecdotal success stories Export Data ACT Active Businesses
People told us? Innovation investment is long term The current programs are good – improvements around
clarity, streamlining and visibility A solution is needed to enable SMEs to successfully
attract Government procurement Cost of doing business is high Capability and global supply chain mapping/gap analysis Key competitive advantage = proximity to decision
makers
Education
Digital
Clean TechKnowledgeProduction
KnowledgeApplication
KnowledgeDiffusion
Services to Govt
Creative
Entrepreneurialism Productivity/Jobs
Supporting Business Investment
Accelerating Business Innovation
The Right Business Environment
Business Development StrategyJobs, Growth and Diversification