Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
Make national innovation policy that compounds, not announces.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
The science reform has survived three permanent secretaries and zero implementations — and each transition resets an agenda the institution cannot afford to restart. Citizens do not read the implementation matrix; they experience the clinic, the road, the science service — or its absence. You will trace money to outcomes in the Data Lab, run a delivery review under fire, and leave with a measurement system that resists gaming.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Design science policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Trace science money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
- Sequence science reform so it survives resistance, turnover and the next budget cycle.
- Manage science programmes with fiduciary discipline and visible value for money.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a water services regulator. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the science analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a ministry of health cannot trace its spending to outcomes citizens feel.
Dataset: Synthetic expenditure and outcome panel for a ministry of health, with leakage and coverage gaps.
Your task: Trace money to outcomes, find the value-for-money gaps, and design the dashboard that changes decisions.
An expenditure-to-outcome dashboard and findings memo.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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